Paris-Tokyo, My Love Book ⋅ Éditions de la Martinière

One Sunday, Dorothée Perkins ran into a Japanese woman wearing a kimono on the platform of a subway station. It was the start of a long list of questions. Was she just passing through, or did she live in Paris? What was in her fridge? Why are our two countries and our two cuisines so drawn to each other? Dorothée set out to meet Japanese people living in France and French people passionate about Japan, to ask them about their journeys, what they eat every day, and to understand what connects us. In this book, you’ll discover a baker in Montmartre, Hiroko’s bentos, a Madame Eiffel in a kimono, Tomoji’s flower arrangements, Mathilda’s mochi, a sumo club just steps from the Marais, and even a Breton sushi master. Some thirty Japanese people and French people drawn to Japan share 60 family recipes—fusion-inspired and easy to make—and share their stories of how to embrace another culture without ever completely losing touch with the flavors of their roots.