Bring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipes— from traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreations— that are easy to make, fun, and delicious. Bring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipes-- from traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreations-- that are easy to make, fun, and delicious. An impressive variety of recipes based on popular anime with very nice full-color illustrations. Might be difficult for beginners to get into.

I grew up an anime kid and this book is EVERYTHING. I always used to imagine what it would be like to cook the various food from shows I watched and when I was younger even tried (and failed) a few times, as I didn’t have any guidance.

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I really appreciated the author including a list of cooking tools in the beginning of the book as sometimes I’d get halfway through prepping a recipe and then realise I don’t have all the equipment I need and so I’d give up and never bother with that recipe again. Japanese Cooking, Food & Wine · The Anime Chef Cookbook: 75 Iconic Dishes from Your Favorite Anime · Tabemasho! · Today's Menu for the Emiya Nadine Estero’s The Anime Chef Cookbook is a fun, delicious, and colourful collection of recipes. I love the book’s quirky design and awesome anime-style illustrations. I also enjoyed the diverse range of unique and fascinating recipes. However, this book is definitely not for beginners as the recipes are complicated and require some cooking skill. So – I enjoy cooking and reading cookbooks, my daughter enjoys manga and anime. So where can our interests converge? Where else but “The Anime Chef Cookbook: 75 Iconic Dishes from Your Favorite Anime” by Nadine Estero.

I loved the inclusion of the visual explanation for dumpling folding. There’s a great selection of appetisers, main dishes, desserts and even drinks. I love the illustrations of the foods as well, they all look so tasty! There were a lot of animes mentioned that I haven’t seen and/or heard of and based off the food, I might add them to my neverending ‘to watch’ list. Food plays an important role in anime, whether it is briefly shown in a slice-of-life scene or the entire plotline of an episode or even a series, and popular anime food creator Nadine Estero (@issagrill) has perfectly captured these favorite food moments. In The Anime Chef Cookbook, she brings 75 appetizers, mains, desserts, and drinks from the screen to your table so that you can enjoy the same foods as your favorite characters, with recipes including:Overall, it was a fun cookbook to read and I'm already considering purchasing it when it comes out. This book is very interesting and will become valuable gift to attract anime lover or at least readers who like me interest with Japanesse cuisine.