A review by jenniferdenslow
Oishinbo: Japanese Cuisine: a la Carte by Tetsu Kariya

3.0

After reading about this Japanese series in Matthew Amster-Burton's [b:Pretty Good Number One: an American Family Eats Tokyo|17787448|Pretty Good Number One An American Family Eats Tokyo|Matthew Amster-Burton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1365526527s/17787448.jpg|24876330], I really wanted to read it but had resigned myself to the fact that is would be forever inaccessible. This American edition is sort of an a la carte collection of episodes from the Japanese original. This first book is an overview of Japanese cuisine.

Don't read this collection as a narrative; the episodes come from different points in the series to serve the purpose of introducing the audience to key concepts in Japanese cuisine.