Kaiseki: The Exquisite Cuisine of Kyoto's Kikunoi Restaurant

Beautiful book. Complex receipes!

This is a beautiful book, and is a great guide but it is not a book if you wish to try and recreate its contents. That said, makes an amazing coffee table book and probably leads to great discussions of reserving a table in Kyoto and making your travel plans to do so.

One of the most beautiful Japanese Cooking Books!The mastery and essence of delicate balance of taste and esthetics.The details to the Seasons and the details to Senses!!!Very Tanizaki that is Chef Murata Yoshihiro.

This book gets my vote for the most beautiful cookbook to come out this year. The photography is amazing and literally takes you on a journey to Japan. The book very well portrays what the Chef and Restaurateur were trying to achieve in design and menu. The dishes served in the Restaurant are Seasonal, and this is reflected throughout the book. At first glance, I was afraid that it was strictly a pictorial but found the coinciding recipes at the back. This was a bit confusing to me but as I read through the book, the layout had such a wonderful unobstructed flow through it. The recipes range from the simple preparation of Dashi to the more complex Yuzu Sansho Cup. This book is definitely not for a beginner, but a well seasoned cook whois looking for challenge and inspiration will definitely find it here.

Incredible look into the mind of a living legend. Many of these recipes are unlikely to be replicated by a home cook simply due to the difficulty in procuring any of these ingredients. However, the techniques and insight are wonderful. My personal favorite is his recipe for dashi. I have been making it wrong all my life 😂