{PRETITLE} The Manga Cookbook: Japanese Bento Boxes, Main Dishes and More! {POSTTITLE}

Rating: (89 reviews)
Author: Chihiro Hattori
ISBN : 4921205078
New from $9.89
Format: PDF

Download medical books file now PRETITLE The Manga Cookbook: Japanese Bento Boxes, Main Dishes and More! POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link

Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western kitchen.

Learn to identify and make the same things you see in all your favorite manga: authentic onigiri (rice balls), yakitori (skewered chicken), oshinko (pickled vegetables), udon (Japanese noodles), okonomiyaki (Japanese-style pizza) and many others! Includes sections on how to assemble bento boxed lunches and properly use chopsticks. Features original manga illustrations by Chihiro Hattori. Soon, you too can enjoy a meal fit for a manga character!

Direct download links available for PRETITLE The Manga Cookbook: Japanese Bento Boxes, Main Dishes and More! [Paperback] POSTTITLE

• Product Details
• Table of Contents
• Reviews

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Japanime Co. Ltd. (December 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4921205078
• ISBN-13: 978-4921205072
• Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 6 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

{PRETITLE} The Manga Cookbook: Japanese Bento Boxes, Main Dishes and More! {POSTTITLE}

The Manga Cookbook is a lovely little collection of Japanese recipes, illustrated with manga-style drawings and accompanied by notes about Japanese culture. The dishes run the gamut from simple steamed rice to complicated multistep affairs, and following the Japanese tradition, the authors pay attention to appearance as well as taste.

The book begins with a few simple decorative tricks, converting an apple to a rabbit, a hardboiled egg to a bird, and a hot dog to an octopus. Next up is steamed rice and onigiri (rice balls), with the obligatory shout-out to Fruits Basket, in which onigiri are a small but important plot element. Other common manga foods include chicken yakitori (kebabs), okonomiyaki (vegetable pancakes), and three-color dango (pastel dumplings on a stick). Several pages are devoted to the construction and decoration of bento box lunches. And no manga book would be complete without Naruto--specifically, Naruto rolls, spirals of ham, cheese, and nori (seaweed) that recall the decorations on the famed boy ninja's jacket.

The recipes are presented by three supercute manga characters: perky Miyuki; her boyfriend, Hiroshi; and their cat mascot, Coo. Each section begins with a full-page cartoon followed by a list of ingredients and step-by-step illustrations of the dish being prepared. Many are followed by cultural notes. Unfortunately, the last 26 pages are just blank notebook pages with the heading "Cook's Notes," which is a lot of empty space in a book that is just 160 pages long.

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) chose The Manga Cookbook as one of their Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers, and it's easy to see why.