Japan for Gluten-Free Travelers & Allergy-Aware Explorers

About this book

The only English guide that treats eating in Japan with a medical dietary restriction as what it actually is — journeys, not restaurant lists. A restaurant can be perfect in March and dangerous in April; a dish can be famous and entirely beside the point. This book gives you 200 complete safe-table journeys, each keyed to the restriction it serves, the route it runs, the table it is built around and the season it belongs to.

Every journey names its failure point — the shared fryer, the unmentioned stock, the garnish of honour, the tasting spoon — and composes the day around it. And because menus, recipes and kitchens change, the book never prints a restaurant as "safe", never asserts an allergen position or a price, and gives no medical advice: instead, every entry closes with its own official source to confirm before you travel, while the durable part — what each tradition is built on, where the hidden ingredient characteristically hides, which questions to ask in which order, how the letter to an inn is written — is given in full.

Eight parts: gateway cities & the first two days · the traditional table read carefully · market days · staying where you eat (inns, farm stays & the letter ahead) · coastal tables · mountain & harvest journeys · sweet & sipped Japan · and a handbook of allergens and situations — peanut in its prefecture, soy in its heartland, buckwheat through the mirror — ending with the 201st journey: your own, composed by the method this book teaches.