Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1)

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
4 hrs 51 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture ?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 9
SMOG Index Grade 10
Coleman Liau Index Grade 9
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 7

Reading Time

4 hrs 51 mins

How long to read Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1)?

The estimated word count of Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1) is 72,695 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 51 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 5 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 42 mins.

Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1) - 72,695 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 8 hrs 5 mins
Average 250 words/min 4 hrs 51 mins
Fast 450 words/min 2 hrs 42 mins
Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1) by Matt Goulding
Authors
Matt Goulding

More about Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

72,695 words

Word Count

for Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1)

352 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 352 pages

7 hours and 49 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel WritersFinalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food WritingNamed one of the Financial Times' "Best Books of 2016"An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice, along with 195 color photographs. In this 5000-mile journey through the noodle shops, tempura temples, and teahouses of Japan, Matt Goulding, co-creator of the enormously popular Eat This, Not That! book series, navigates the intersection between food, history, and culture, creating one of the most ambitious and complete books ever written about Japanese culinary culture from the Western perspective.Written in the same evocative voice that drives the award-winning magazine Roads & Kingdoms, Rice, Noodle, Fish explores Japan's most intriguing culinary disciplines in seven key regions, from the kaiseki tradition of Kyoto and the sushi masters of Tokyo to the street food of Osaka and the ramen culture of Fukuoka. You won't find hotel recommendations or bus schedules; you will find a brilliant narrative that interweaves immersive food journalism with intimate portraits of the cities and the people who shape Japan's food culture.This is not your typical guidebook. Rice, Noodle, Fish is a rare blend of inspiration and information, perfect for the intrepid and armchair traveler alike. Combining literary storytelling, indispensable insider information, and world-class design and photography, the end result is the first ever guidebook for the new age of culinary tourism.