Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
5 best books like Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto (Victoria Abbott Riccardi): A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto, A Year in Japan
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
| Author | Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan |
| ISBN | 1401341284 |
"Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape...
| Author | Stephanie Wellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0814751970 |
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds...
A nice collection of Japanese fairy tales, "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" is nicely illustrated for young readers.
(And, at least in the case of the Romanian version, it's also adapted - there's a reference to Momotaro being sent by God to a childless elderly couple so he could be their...
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679738347 |
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional...
| Author | Kate T. Williamson |
| ISBN | 1568985401 |
The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for a Westerner to get to know the real Japan is to become...
