Lisbon × Lima
Lima Meets Lisbon
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- 01Italian cuisine is built on soul.
- 02Japanese cuisine is built on precision.
- 03Together, they create harmony with edge.
The first volume — available now
Italian soul. Japanese precision.
Two kitchens that already share more than they admit — both built on restraint, both reverent of one good ingredient, both suspicious of decoration. Thirty recipes, half born in Tuscan farmhouses, half in Tokyo apartments, all learned to belong to one another at the same counter.
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Vol. II — Out now
Seoul Meets Mexico City
Fermented depth meets layered heat. Paperback and Kindle, out now.
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19 cross-cultural recipes + the Flavor Pairing Matrix.
The full logic behind every Japanese-Italian swap, condensed.
The series
Four kitchens. One conversation.
Mumbai × Marrakech
Mumbai Meets Marrakech
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Barcelona × Bangkok
Bangkok Meets Barcelona
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Journal
Notes on food, culture, memory, and movement.
August 2026
Brodo, Stock, and Dashi: Three Answers to the Same Question
Italian brodo simmers for hours. Japanese dashi is finished in fifteen minutes. Both are correct, because they are extracting completely different things — and knowing which one a dish needs is more useful than knowing either recipe.
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August 2026
Why Pasta Water Finishes the Sauce: Starch, Emulsion, and Mantecatura
Reserving a cup of pasta water is the most-repeated advice in Italian cooking and the least-explained. It is not about thinning the sauce. It is about building an emulsion that will not break — and the same physics runs through a Japanese kitchen under different names.
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August 2026
Soffritto, Mirepoix, Sofrito: Every Cuisine Starts the Same Way
Almost every cooking tradition begins a dish by sweating aromatics in fat. The vegetables change, the fat changes, the timing changes — but the move is identical, and understanding why lets you improvise across cuisines instead of memorising recipes.
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Field Notes
Shorter than essays. Closer to the counter.
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The Italian × Japanese ingredient chart behind every recipe in the book. Enter your email — free PDF, one page.
Notes from the kitchen