I mentioned this series in my post of instructional comics but I though it worth bringing up again here. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki (Viz Media) Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. As all-star chefs play Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (or 100 candles) and spin their tales of demons and feasts, the reader is left wondering who will be left standing and which dish will have the power to save them. What it does do, however, is demonstrate the abiding place food has in Japanese culture and the ways in which it’s easily twisted into something dangerous, and even demonic. This one isn’t as instructional as the others, though Bourdain did add several new recipes at the back of the book. Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, Alberto Ponticelli, Irene Koh, and Paul Pope (Berger Books) It also teaches the reader how to apply those skills to various dishes, how to take some helpful shortcuts when needed, and variations on themes to cover everything from quick family dinners to a party with friends. It’s nice to know the tradition of step-by-step instruction in media still exists and is easily accessible at your local bookstore or library.Ĭooking Comics: Simple Skills, Fantastic Food by Lauren Thomson and Tsukuru Anderson (One Peace Books)Ī comic manual to fundamental kitchen skills, Cooking Comics will teach you the basics you need to go from newbie to proficient cook in about 100 pages. They’ve been swapped out most of the cooking shows for competition shows, which are fun but there isn’t a lot of teaching going on. I was, in point of fact, a terrible cook until I took in years of Food Network programming. I also enjoy that, in these particular comics, you don’t have a list of ingredients, a few instructions, and then a picture perfect snapshot of the final dish pages and panels in comic cookbooks show you what shapes various ingredients should be, how to perform a technique you may be attempting for the first time, or why, exactly, you need to add this before that.įlipping through these comics is a lot like watching the old school cooking shows I loved in college. I’ve taken a look at several lately, and I really enjoy that so many of them dip into the history of the cuisine of a given cuisine and the stories surrounding important and popular dishes. Over the past decade or so, however, another kind of culinary comic has become popular: the comic cookbook. There are a lot of comics that are either about food or focus on food as an important story element.
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