There are still a few things on our wish list to purchase before we leave Japan. Things we'll have a hard time finding once in Canada, new rice cooker, some of Frankie's favourite snacks and a few other small appliances.


On Saturday we picked up three cook books, one Chinese with plenty of detailed step-by-step photos for myself and two more by Japanese semi-celebrity chef and illustrator KENTARO (if you google his name use katakana). The first is the more practical of the two packing 190 pages of his brand of simple, easy to cook Japanese comfort food recipes. The other, and nicer of the two as far as books go is Kentaro's Table. Released this year Kentaro's Table is a mix of recipes and beautiful food photography along side collages and snapshots from his childhood. Here's a video of him introducing the book. I don't find his recipes overly inspiring or creative, very basic, something you could easily expect to see cooked on a daily basis in a Japanese home, which is part of the appeal for us.

More on his publisher's site and his weblog.

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