![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Yamaoka and his colleagues sample the food that Japan has to offer, though, Yamaoka will not only go head to head with his angry father, but with Yamaoka’s own headstrong belief that he knows everything about food. Yamaoka thinks he has an edge because he learned much about food from his estranged father, renowned founder of the Gourmet Club and artist Kaibara Yuzan. Yamaoka Shiro has been tasked by the Tozai News, as part of the newspaper’s 100th anniversary, to create an "Ultimate Menu" featuring the absolute best cuisine has to offer. Now that Viz has translated the first volume, Oishinbo: A la Carte: Japanese Cuisine, I’m quite happy to say that creating that sort of collection was absolutely the way to go. What to do to try and hook new readers who perhaps don’t have the time or attention span to plow through over 20,000 pages of manga? Enter the Oishinbo: A la Carte series, where each volume is a "best-of" compilation around a specific type of food. ![]() In the case of Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki’s Oishinbo, though, it’s all the more impressive when you consider that the comic has run since 1983, with over 100 collections to date in Japan. I love that in Japan, it’s nothing out of the ordinary to have a comic centered around cooking. ![]()
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