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andreairashea's review
4.0
This was a great book to read while travelling in Japan, but I also would have been happy reading it before we left! So many inspirations, both for travel and for tasting... Learned a few things about some of the food I'd been devouring left and right. The author has his likes and dislikes, with which I sometimes disagreed, but overall he's quite amiable and fair. I loved all the insight he shared through his research and his many, many contacts with not just chefs but people involved in food produchtion. Also important: As he says at the end, he doesn't want to fetishize Japan, but he inserts some poignant observations on the decline of tradition and the environment without sounding moralizing or becoming depressive. Highly recommend!
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