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Spice Called Memories: On Kamogawa Food Detectives
There’s a little alleyway in Kyoto where a restaurant hides with no signboards, no curtains, and yet somehow, everyone who visits never...
Cordelia Shan
Sep 19, 2025


September Feature: Food for Thought
At Found in Translation , this September we celebrate food in translated literature. Meals in books are never just meals: they carry...
Cordelia Shan
Sep 16, 2025


Food Is Everywhere in Japanese Literature
Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, “endlessly interpretable,” and food, like literature, “looks like an object but is...
Cordelia Shan
Sep 8, 2025
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