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Over at Graphic Novel Reporter Review you can now read my article on “Cooking with Oishinbo”. Basically I read Oishinbo (read my previous review) and then made a Japanese meal using some dishes from the manga. Today’s post is an overview of cooking and the meal. It will be followed by four days of recipe [...]

A “comics recipe” on making vegetarian miso soup with turnips. Drawn in 5 hours on 24 Hour Comics Day 2009 (I was too lazy to do 24 pages). It was also posted at Graphic Novel Review as a follow-up to my article about cooking food from Oishinbo.

Today is 24 Hour Comic Day. I am not that ambitious, but I wanted to do something. So, I made an 8 page comic in 5 hours. It’s my first “comics recipe” about making miso soup (which I did last weekend for another project that will soon see light of day). Read: “Making Miso Soup” [...]

I knew I’d love this manga as soon as I heard about it, a long running series about food, not where food is just part of the setting but rather an integral part of each story. Oishinbo has been running in Japan since 1983 and totals over 100 volumes. Viz is here translating the “A La Carte” series, a repackaging of stories from across the title’s run into thematic volumes. That immediately tells you one thing: you don’t read this for the larger narrative arc or the character development.