Discovering Japanese cuisine is cleverly linked to the main storyline, in which the editors of the

It's been over two years since I've written extensively here about the wonderful Japanese excursion into wine called Drops of God. This excellent series began was also published in English (Amazon UK, Amazon U.S.), I kind of fell for her :-) And the collection also bought another manga as done for refuge in the Japanese food and drink, Oishinbo a la Carte. bar en zinc Oishinbo (= gourmet), one of the longest manga series ever, wrote Tetsu Kariya and drawn by Akira Hanasaki. Based in Japan since the eighties, was very popular (for television it was created and anime about 136 works), each of the 100 + volumes are sold in more than one million load, and played a significant role in the development of the local gastronomic literacy. bar en zinc Now it became crucial in seven volumes (Amazon UK, Amazon U.S.), thematically divided. From the initial view of the whole philosophy of Japanese cuisine to share about saké and other alcohol, "Chinese" Book of the theme ramen noodles and dumplings gyōza, bar en zinc a major theme of fish as raw as possible, part of the importance of vegetables, rice and beauty of classic pub meal. It pays to put a bookcase? :-)
Discovering Japanese cuisine is cleverly linked to the main storyline, in which the editors of the newspaper Tozai News trying to centenary, prepare special series "The top menu", choose the best you can eat and drink. Meanwhile, the competitive slice, Teito Times, monkey with virtually the same concept. To make matters worse, and Teito working bar en zinc renowned gourmet Yuzana Kaibara and the hero is an employee Tozai, Shirō Yamaoka, a father and son who downright hate. So in addition to food, there is the main theme, the winner of the fundamental voltage and eternal bar en zinc disputes, is this problematic relationship (which allows various bar en zinc "battles", efforts to win better food on a topic). bar en zinc A adds a complicated relationship with Western culture, paradoxically often as access to some of the characters' everything bar en zinc western is better "(especially, as expected, French cuisine and wine), which is trying to disrupt Yamaoka.
Most of the story lines but it is very transparent and somewhere on the level of Mexican bar en zinc soap operas or television film by Rosamund Pilcherové books, comics if you expect to be Sandman literary level, you have to look elsewhere :-) In addition, the it is a compilation of extensive work with selected sections by topic, that sometimes arise strange moments when a few pages consecutively repeated virtually the same information in a story somehow generally bar en zinc and in the second the same with some extra details (most probably be seen in the work of sake and alcohol), it looks weird (in the original version of the individual bar en zinc stories could be several years). This also leads to occasional explanations in style "at this stage are going character X and Y already married", just the original storyline there is more in a fraction and causes a little confusion.
Drawing is relatively simple, although the details of food / ingredients / fish are decorated nicely, and not particularly dynamic, but it's not so important, the main thing is that after all the food and drink! But even here there is a minor problem, based on the series began thirty years ago and in some ways it's a decent retro :-) Some of the information or views are just a little outdated, but again it is good fun things that there would be today, few dared write , the company has shifted. Maybe the French do not go to the white sea monsters (because it is in them much sodium, sake in this regard would work much better) and such pairing Chablis with oysters is crap (in Drops of God is the opposite devoted a long chapter, where the authors pairings explain in detail that is suitable Chablis and such). Beautiful is how to solve problems in Oishinbo type of rogue food and sake, various chemical additives and technological changes (colored bar en zinc noodles, artificially supplied monosodium glutamate), the issue of origin of meat with which we entertain in the mainstream media are only now beginning.
Otherwise, there is relatively good time and probably even learned something new. It works like a simplified view of the Japanese mentality and pretty decent approximation of their cuisine. Newcomers (different types of noodles, types of fish, and their processing) and advanced (eg different special techniques for preparing dashi where else to find it?) Will pretty interesting. And if you are only going to Japan, as the excursion bar en zinc what to expect on your plate I think it's great. For me it is mainly a reminder of the country, which now do not look around for some time. Enthusiasm characters for good food is infectious, twice Oishinbo forced me to prepare something at home or go to a Japanese sushi (pictured low-cost pieces bar en zinc of Sushi Tam Da, often somewhat fussy but in the context of CR and good prices). Oh, and the books I have incredible taste of sake, but it's really good to have practically impossible to come by (or for unreasonably much money and so long out of stock, the condition may not be ideal), so with every cup in the picture suffer ...
It's been over two years since I've written extensively here about the wonderful Japanese excursion into wine called Drops of God. This excellent with