Ramen master Ivan Orkin's new cookbook shows he's no dabbling dilettante when it comes to Japanese home cooking
Sept. 10, 2019 1:37 pm ET
EVEN BEFORE you crack the cover of ramen master Ivan Orkin’s “The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider,” the question hits you: Why trust a self-identifying gaijin, or foreigner, to show you how to cook Japanese food? What does a white Jewish guy who grew up on Long Island have to teach us about the cuisine of a notoriously complex, intimidatingly insular culture halfway around the world? Plenty, it turns out, when that gaijin is also an otaku—the...
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