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The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
by Hisashi Kashiwai
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
4.5*
Knowing what to expect having loved The Kamogawa Food Detectives, I treated this book like a short story collection. I enjoyed reading one story a day, indulging in the wonderful food descriptions and very human stories. The end result being it left me feeling as satisfied as the customers of the Kamogawa Diner after trying one of Nagare Kamogawa's meals.
Cosy, comforting, nostalgic and with mouth-watering food descriptions, this book, and the first one in the series, The Kamogawa Food Detectives, sits wonderfully amongst other translated Japanese works like Before The Coffee Gets Cold, The Lantern of Lost Memories and What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.
If you take each story as it comes rather than treating it as a novel and overall just savour it by dipping in and out then I'm hopeful that you'll love this just as much as I did.
Thank you to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan | Mantle for a digital review copy of "The Restaurant of Lost Recipes" in exchange for my honest and voluntary review.
Knowing what to expect having loved The Kamogawa Food Detectives, I treated this book like a short story collection. I enjoyed reading one story a day, indulging in the wonderful food descriptions and very human stories. The end result being it left me feeling as satisfied as the customers of the Kamogawa Diner after trying one of Nagare Kamogawa's meals.
Cosy, comforting, nostalgic and with mouth-watering food descriptions, this book, and the first one in the series, The Kamogawa Food Detectives, sits wonderfully amongst other translated Japanese works like Before The Coffee Gets Cold, The Lantern of Lost Memories and What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.
If you take each story as it comes rather than treating it as a novel and overall just savour it by dipping in and out then I'm hopeful that you'll love this just as much as I did.
Thank you to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan | Mantle for a digital review copy of "The Restaurant of Lost Recipes" in exchange for my honest and voluntary review.