Madame Lolina

Madame Lolina is a super-talented artist. Her illustrated wishlist can be compared to mine for those Japanese gardening scissors I really wish I get sooner than later.

Yakitori Recipes Book

I must confess: I usually buy recipes books not because my will to cook something but for my attraction to beautiful pictures and, most of all, graphic layout.
I'm in love with Guido Tommasi Editore book series, so when I found out this Yakitori volume I didn't resist. I wanted it to be mine.
The recipes and stylist are from Motoko Okuno, a Paris based Japanese chef loving her home-country spit cooked meat tradition.
I won't probably cook anything of it, but this volume fits perfectly with my already well-furnished bookshelf!

Pics and collage © Moustaches

Grace Lee

I first learnt about Grace Lee's works from the great 2012 cover for Madame Figaro Magazine, 'Tokyo 56-Lunch Map'.
Then I took a walk around her favourite Tokyo neighborhoods falling in love with every single restaurant window, shop sign, awning and green corner I met on my way.
Grace's illustrated Tokyo is full of colorful traditional business. I first had lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Daizawa, then I strolled about in Shimokitazawa to buy some flowers and bulbs. Where will you walk down to?

P.S. By the way: do you recognize some shop windows in this Hello Sandwich's spring post?

Illustrations: Grace Lee
Collage by Moustaches