Kamogawa Food Detectives

Hardcover, 208 pages

English language

Published Feb. 13, 2024 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-71771-4
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . .

The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.

A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

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Kamogawa Shokudou

4 stars

This is more a collection of stories about this tavern in Kyoto that is also a food detective agency. Visitors find the agency because they long for special foods they tasted in the past, but all the stories are tales about life more than anything else.

Very in line with other Japanese contemporary novels, the writing is beautifully focused customs and details. You could say this is a uplifting version of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold"

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