This Week's Manga Moveable Feast Covers Oishinbo and Food Manga

This month's Manga Moveable Feast is dedicated to the topic of food manga. It's a subject dear to my heart, as here at the site we've reviewed the following titles in that genre:

• Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga (Digital Manga)
• The Drops of God by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto (Vertical)
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
• Iron Wok Jan by Shinji Saijyo (ComicsOne/DrMaster)
  • Book 1
  • Book 13
  • Book 16
• Kitchen Princess by Natsumi Ando
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
  • Book 4
  • Book 5
  • Book 6
  • Book 7
  • Book 8
  • Book 9
• Kodoku no Gourmet (The Solitary Gourmet) by Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi
• Mixed Vegetables by Ayumi Komura
  • Book 1
  • Book 8
• Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture by Masayuki Ishikawa
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
• Neko Ramen by Kenji Sonishi
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
• Not Love But Delicious Foods by Fumi Yoshinaga
• Oishinbo: a la Carte by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
  • Book 1: Japanese Cuisine
  • Book 2: Sake
  • Book 3: Ramen & Gyoza
  • Book 4: Fish, Sushi & Sashimi
  • Book 5: Vegetables
  • Book 6: Rice
  • Book 7: Izakaya (Pub Food)
• Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
  • Book 1
  • Book 5
• Yakitate!! Japan by Takashi Hashiguchi
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 4
  • Book 14

(Some, including me, may quibble with including exaggerated and/or humor manga such as Toriko and Neko Ramen in this list, but I am told, in the call for participation, that some do consider them part of the genre, so they're listed here.)

For this food MMF, host Khursten Santos at Otaku Champloo has, in addition to collecting review and article links, posted a history of the genre and her experience cooking beef garlic rice bowl and bacon nabe. (Note: since she can read Japanese, her recipes are from the original Oishinbo series, not the excerpts published here.) Another blogger has made the asparagus recipes from the translated Vegetables volume. As a comic critic who has my own recipes section of this site, I love reading about other bloggers' experiences making food.

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