A review by shajila
Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen by Naomi Moriyama

4.0

I really enjoyed this and would reccomend to anyone who enjoys japanese culture. This is so well written, it is part health part travel book! With health books I do find that they can be quite biased but I was happy to see that the writer included facts that also show the negative effects of a typical japanese diet and mentioned some studies that might make you a bit more cautious to try certain things - this is a good quality book I would say for that reason. I do have a sneaky suspicion that the original name for this book was something like 'tokyo kitchen' or 'my mother's tokyo kitchen'. If I recall correctly this book came out around the same time as 'french women don't get fat' so maybe this was a last minute marketing choice? Either way I will definitely read this again in the future for pleasure but I dont think this cuisine is exactly for me, although I definitely agree with lots of points in the book. I also loved that she included some deep fried recipes. Nowadays that would never be included in a diet book.