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Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto "favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities," as a critic for Publishers Weekly once explained. The author has become a worldwide phenomenon, with millions...

Food Prep GadgetsOne summer of my misspent youth, I worked as a galley slave at an island inn off the New England coast, beginning each day with a peeler in hand and an inexhaustible supply of potatoes. Even at the time, this seemed disappointingly low-tech,...

On a recent afternoon in a small apartment in the East Village, several students from The French Culinary Institute gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July. One of them, 29-year-old Reinaldo Faberlle, was holding a large, vodka-infused watermelon. While his friends looked on, munching on...

Martin Hyde has his own recurring nightmares about Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, the popular BBC reality TV show starring the famously silver-tongued Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay, which is being adapted for American audiences to air this fall on Fox. “I’m in my restaurant and Gordon Ramsay...

When I rented my first apartment the summer I graduated from college I didn’t really give much thought to the kitchen. Having mastered all of about five recipes that required little more than opening cans and boxes, stirring and heating, my cooking equipment needs were...

"Weeping Tears of Nostalgia," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XL, No. 14, August 12, 1993, pp. 29-30. Buruma is a Dutch-born critic who has written several nonfiction works on Asian culture. In the following excerpt, he claims that Kitchen draws upon aspects of traditional Japanese literature and current popular tastes.

In the following review, Garrison perceives the novella Kitchen as a quirky and oddly upbeat examination of a young person's emotional trials.

Grimson is an American novelist and short story writer. In the following review, he perceives a youthful, innocent quality and an emphasis on family life as both the strengths and weaknesses of Kitchen.