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Oishinbo, Volume 5 - Vegetables (Oishinbo #5)
R to L (Japanese Style). Weekly Time magazine sets up a series of culinary battles between the T zai News's "Ultimate Menu," represented by Yamaoka, and the Teito Times's "Supreme Menu," represented by Kaibara Y zan, Yamaoka's father and nemesis. The ingredient this time is vegetables, specifically cabbages and turnips. Who will win the Vegetable S...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
September 8th 2009
by VIZ Media LLC
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I now know more about vegetables then I ever expected to. As much fun as these books have been, I think this one was my least favorite. There was much, and I mean MUCH preaching in the stories about pesticides and herbicides and the stories were... a little over the top with the exaggeration aspect.
Still, there was a moment in the book that had me cracking up. Yamaoka has been called into the office by his boss to look at a huge pile of books that have been spread over the table. ...more
Still, there was a moment in the book that had me cracking up. Yamaoka has been called into the office by his boss to look at a huge pile of books that have been spread over the table. ...more
Another great volume of this really fun and informative series. It may be nit-picky, but I was disappointed at which of the dishes featured in the story was chosen to have an actual recipe. Grilled asparagus I could have figured out pretty much from the description in the text. I was hoping for one of the turnip dishes, or spinach, or cabbage from the first story, or even eggplant. I found myself wishing I knew what year each story was from, especially those that deal with the pesticides and...more
Works remarkably well as paired reading with Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, which I also finished this past week. As always, the series makes me want to cook. On the other hand, I won't rate it higher because I can't get past the fact that the entire manga is basically infodump, infodump, infodump, with only the sketchiest efforts toward actual story or characterization. Not to mention the fact that the drawings of people are often suspiciously out of proportion. (The tiny heads! They make...more
this is not a manga, this is a cookbook with word balloons. I learned a lot about Japanese vegetables and it was totally painless.
The storytelling is quite sophisticated for a completely action-free story. The readability is astonishing.
Naturally the food is drawn better than the characters -- that's the point of the series, after all. It's amazing what sorts of effects they can create drawing food with pen, ink, and ziptone. Quite remarkable.
The storytelling is quite sophisticated for a completely action-free story. The readability is astonishing.
Naturally the food is drawn better than the characters -- that's the point of the series, after all. It's amazing what sorts of effects they can create drawing food with pen, ink, and ziptone. Quite remarkable.
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If you find yourself watching cooking shows on TV for hours on end, you might really enjoy the Oishinbo series. Although it gets preachy at times, there's a real love of food and the tensions between the characters can be really entertaining.
Still missing plot points in the story, but I hardly care. =)
The food and cultural experience is incredibly engaging.
Makes me want to learn how to cook more japanese foods.
The food and cultural experience is incredibly engaging.
Makes me want to learn how to cook more japanese foods.
Manga. A lot of preaching about organic vegetables and growing practices. See review of vol 1 for more details.
Reading this is like watching paint dry. Pointless. Gave it another shot by starting at vol. 1, with similar results.
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see my other reviews, this suffers the same "amazing work that fails due to Viz's presentation.".
Oishinbo is one of my favorite manga series. It's practically Good Eats in book form.
Cute, fun book that has some unintentionally hilarious moral lessons assigned to each recipe-cum-story.
This probably would have had more of an impact on me before I made the organic switch. I guess I was hoping it would be about vegetables that were iconically Japanese rather than just vegetables all around. I sure hope that the next volumes are more fun because I may give up on these. They aren't bad; I'm just not learning as much about food as I was before. Still the remaining volumes on Rice and Pub Food give me hope.
Yet another stellar entry in the Oishinbo series. Of course in this book a lot of the emphasis was on how pesticides etc. ruin not only the safety of a vegetable they often ruin the taste as well. I enjoyed learning how to best prepare eggplant and asparagus. Love this series!
A hard-to-find volume, and you maybe shouldn't look that hard; it's easily the most skippable Oishinbo book. Thick on polemic lectures, thin on plot and food inspiration.
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