Food Pleasures — Autumn, Volume 2

At Towa’s table, recipes lead into conversations about health, thrift, marriage, and the education of children. Murai Gensai brings the daily work of a Meiji household into a lively culinary novel.

This second half of the Autumn Volume follows friends exploring Japanese and Western dishes while imagining new possibilities for domestic life and household reform.

The complete appendices One Hundred Rice Dishes and Fifty Bread Dishes range from mushroom rice and pressed sushi to pilau, sandwiches, soufflés, and puddings. Every supplied chapter and recipe is translated, with brief notes on traditional measures and historical claims.