Review -- Village Voice

"Japanese Hot Pots is a wonderfully comprehensive cookbook, featuring hot pots from all over Japan, to every taste -- from Kyoto mackerel-miso hot pot and Hiroshima oyster hot pot, to Hakata pork intestines hot pot and lamb shabu-shabu from Hokkaido. The recipes are very simple once you're done finding the ingredients and cutting them up. There's basically only one technique going on -- simmering."

- Sara DiGregorio, The Village Voice's Fork in the Road food blog