Shigekazu Takanashi is the owner of Ramen Rotas, a ramen restaurant in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. His YouTube channel Ramen Rotas has 280,000 subscribers and his most popular videos have over 2 million views. His dream is for everybody to eat his ramen at home! Makiko Itoh, author of the Just Bento cookbook series and Real Japanese Cooking, has translated many Japanese works into English including Zen Wisdom for the Anxious, and Real Japanese Izakaya Cookbook. She now writes a monthly column on Japanese food for the Japan Times and her new compendium work, Real Japanese Cooking has just been published by Tuttle Publishing.
""An ideal and fun resource for family cooks and professional chefs wanting to create authentic and delicious ramen based Japanese meals for both formal and informal dining."" —Midwest Book Review ""Takanashi writes with authority and enthusiasm, and the recipes are brief, to-the-point, and user-friendly, written without any major gaps or shortcomings. Takanashi's voice is cheerful and direct, and he adds legitimately helpful collections of tips to most of the book's recipes. And while the book isn't particularly long …it accomplishes its mission, which is teaching the American home cook how to make legit ramen at home."" —The Cookbook Test blog