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Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood: Kamogawa Food Detectives (2024, Cengage Gale) 4 stars

A retired policeman turned chef and his single daughter run a restaurant where they recreate …

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"