Recipe for Disaster

Hana Miyamoto has two speeds: chaos and cooking. As a line cook at her family's small Tokyo bistro, she burns through every shift with reckless passion — and occasionally, other people's shirts. Ren Kurosawa is Tokyo's most feared food critic. Cold, precise, and completely impossible to read. When Hana spills hot soup on him during a secret inspection visit, she expects a scathing review and never sees him again. Instead, he keeps coming back. What Hana doesn't know is that Ren lost his sense of taste two years ago — and has been faking every review since. What he doesn't expect is that her descriptions of food, raw and vivid and completely her own, come closer to reaching him than anything has in twenty-six months. Recipe for Disaster is a slow-burn romantic comedy about a man who stopped tasting the world and the woman who taught him there are other ways to feel it.