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10 Best Anime About Cooking & Food

comicbook.com 10 Best Anime About Cooking & Food

Fresh fantasy, nutty comedy, indulgent isekai, and sweet slice-of-life — these gourmet anime are worth savoring every soupçon!

Delicious in Dungeon
Isekai Izakaya
Food Wars
Food for the Soul
Campfire Cooking in Another World
Fighting Foodons
Kakuriyo
Toriko
Sweetness and Lightning
Yumeiro Patissiere

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It's frankly embarrassing that Yakitate!! Japan isn't on the list.
- Invalidates the whole list.
- Omg I literally just commented that before reading your comment. My guess is that it's because it's solely about bread rather can cooking in general.
  
  My guess is it's because the doofus who wrote the article didn't do basic research.
Another one that often gets overlooked is Bartender, from 2006.
- And the Bartender remake from 2024.
  
  Oh what? I hadn't heard, thanks!
An older one I really enjoyed was Yakitake Japan but it was mainly about bread rather than cooking in general.
Wonder if any of them have actual recipes you can try out in real life, I have recently started getting into cooking. Food Wars is on my to watch/read list.
- I've thought about this myself especially with campfire cooking as he goes through all the steps when he cooks. The only thing is he uses monster meat but there seems to always be a real life equivalent.
- Haven't watched any of those but the manga Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen has recipes
- I'm not entirely sure. I haven't watched many of them but the Food Wars gastronomy is acute! So some of the techniques are certainly usable.
It's not 10 Best without Yakitate Japan.
I'm going to add Today's Menu for the Emiya Family on the grounds that it's hilarious if you know what the characters are like in the main franchise. Someone took a grimdark death battle story and made a slice of life cooking spinoff, and it somehow works
Even when it's not the main focus, it's always enjoyable when there's some real love put into a cooking or eating scene.
Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf was largely about food and cooking.

Cooking master boy is a great 90s anime about cooking battles similar to Yakitate! Japan which someone else already mentioned.
My personal favourite is Yotsuiro Biyori. It was such a delight to watch. I also enjoyed Kakuriyo a lot, glad it's getting season 2 this fall.
"Restaurant to Another World" is one of my favorites.

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