The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
The Kamogawa Food Detectives Series - Book 2
Disclaimer - This is Not a Romance Genre Book
By Hisashi Kashiwai, Translated by Jesse Kirkwood
G.P. Putnam's Sons - October 2024 (US English)
Fiction
The detective chef and his assistant daughter are once again serving up dishes of delicious meals and memories. The Kamogawa Diner is not your typical diner. Instead of heading in to find a new delicious meal, the proprietors help you find an old memorable meal.
Patrons seek out the diner with hopes of having a dish recreated for them. Their knowledge of the ingredients are typically vague at best. But it is their other memories that are key to solving the mystery. There is also the hope that these meals might bring other resolutions to them as well.
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is a compilation of shorter stories of someone coming to the restaurant looking for help, then their return with the hope of resolution. They all stand on their own. I enjoyed revisiting the diner and learning about Japanese culture and cuisine. One drawback, if it can be called that, is always salivating over the delicious meals described in the book.
Kathy Andrico - KathysReviewCorner.com
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