Reads and Recipes
Image created using Canva AI One of my recent reads has been the ‘Restaurant of Lost Recipes’ by Haisashi Kashiwai recommended by CC. A very interesting food based book in which food detectives try to trace and recreate recipes lost for various reasons by those who come in search of the food detective agency. After a long time, I read a complete book in one go - it was un-putdownable. First of all, it has opened a universe of Japanese dishes that I am not familiar with and I have a long list of ‘to-be-tasted’ foods. Even the variety of something as familiar as tempura it mentions, is mind-boggling. So a food trail in Kyoto is now going to be a must-do.Also, I have discovered that what I have been fondly eating at Wagamama for a while is a ten-don. The phrase, Yoroshu o agari, instead of saying thank you when served a meal is also great to adopt into regular practice. Exotic and sounds a lot more deep. I like that Nagare (of the food detectives) points out that even in the simplest of f...