The Kamogawa Food Detectives

"The Kamogawa Food Detectives" by Hisashi Kashiwai is a wonderful novel about the best meals of our life.

In a quiet backstreet in Kyoto the extraordinary restaurant Kamogawa Diner serves it's delicious meals. The father Nagare Kamogawa runs the restaurant with his daughter Koishi and treats the customers with extravagant meals that recreates the most memorable dishes from their customers' pasts. It could be a mourning man longing for his dead wife’s noodle dish to a couple’s romantic beef stew.

 

"The Kamogawa Food Detectives" is the first book in Hisashi Kashiwai’s charming and original series translated by Jesse Kirkwood.