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Get Jiro! (2012)

by Anthony Bourdain(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1401228275 (ISBN13: 9781401228279)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: This was really fun. A graphic novel about a near-future, dystopian LA. Why fun? Because the city is run by chef warlords. What you have here is a playful satire about food culture in contemporary America. And the art is absolutely fabulous - there's so much happening in every panel. I'm sure there's a whole secondary layer to analyse here, since he's working within the ninja landscape, and that's just foreign to me, so I ignore it. But I did like what he had to say about food - about trends and classics, about haute cuisine and food deserts, about access. In short, the politics and geographies of food. It's not new, especially if you've already read Bourdain. It's just playful and witty and clever. And fair warning - it will make you crave sushi. This is a str... moreong recommendation from me. Would make a wonderful gift for the right reader.
review 2: Fantastic and surprisingly funny. Jiro is a sushi chef bent on protecting himself from the extremist factions in a dystopian food world. Both the vegan locavores and the mega-restaurant chain run by gastronomes were hysterical and horrifying and overall a bit too close to today's food scene. Overall the story and the characters were great if sometimes bordering on parody.The art and the writing were fairly good. My one qualm is that everything in this world is incredibly dirty and it is treated as being both a positive and a negative. The writing is pretty great and the story clips along at a steady pace. There are definitely a few spelling errors with words in translation though i am not sure if they were intentional or not.A lot of the jokes in the book may not be funny to some readers. If you do not know what a caprese salad is and why it would be unheard of for a locavore to serve it in January, you may not get some of the jokes in this book. However, if you are a foodie you will enjoy the humor, if you are a foodie hater, you will enjoy the absurdism of the fervor of the characters in this book. less

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