On a tiny street in Kyoto, there's a hole-in-the-wall restaurant where the proprietors, a retired police detective and his daughter, make incredible food from a wide variety of cuisines. But what really pays the bills is the Kamogawa Detective Agency, in which the restauranteurs track down and make the comfort food recipes that their clients can't seem to replicate. Told in episodic format, they find everything from a beef stew served more than 50 years earlier at a vaguely remembered restaurant to family recipes created by long-dead mothers to tonkatsu made by a dying ex-husband who was also a chef. This is a supremely cozy and satisfying book, a warm hug of a novel if ever one existed, and a wonderful respite from everyday stresses. Highly recommended.
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