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Oishinbo A La Carte, Volume 5 - Vegetables (2009)

by Tetsu Kariya(Favorite Author)
3.84 of 5 Votes: 1
ISBN
1421521431 (ISBN13: 9781421521435)
languge
English
publisher
VIZ Media LLC
series
Oishinbo
review 1: Is this a 2 or a 3? Not entirely sure.... It's intriguing to see something as personal as food and cooking collected into a series of stories in graphic storytelling form. But, the characters are not very deep, and the storylines aren't consistent. It's possible this is just a collection of stories out of sequence, but the preface isn't clear about that. Also, wow, total reminder of how gendered Japanese culture is....
review 2: Works remarkably well as paired reading with Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, which I also finished this past week. As always, the series makes me want to cook. On the other hand, I won't rate it higher because I can't get past the fact that the entire manga is basically infodump, infodump, infodump, with only the sketchiest effor
... morets toward actual story or characterization. Not to mention the fact that the drawings of people are often suspiciously out of proportion. (The tiny heads! They make me LOL.) less
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jeffwee
Cooking + eating + journalism + father/son conflict + Japan. Amazing
Novab
This actually made me want to eat vegetables XD
yeni
Food - recipes, cooking tips, and politics!
nige
My favorite Oishinbo volume, so far.
serg
least interesting of the bunch
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