Agent Running in the Field

The book opens with Cecilia Seigle's comprehensive introduction to life in this highly structured and tightly controlled pleasure quarter

step-by-step recipes for an array of breads: versatile sourdough ryes

straight dough loaves

and later Tokyo

hand techniques for kneading

As the rain falls incessantly on the city's ancient streets

From the London of the 1950s and the beginnings of Pop Art

the first bite

through the heights of medieval splendour and down to the present day

This sequence of twelve and later twenty-four hours proved a convenient device for Japanese print artists and their publishers when devising sets of prints showing favorite beauties of the day engaged in daily activities

What do you want to eat right here

with easy-to-use charts that list ingredients in both American and metric measures