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She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 3
by Sakaomi Yuzaki
January 2024 belated.
Absolutely adore this series, cannot recommend highly enough. While a simple premise: neighbors bond over a love of food and start to cook together, this is so above and beyond. It’s incredible.
Each volume is a celebration of how food and cooking can bring people together, but also tackles societal expectations over women’s bodies, women’s relationship to food, and women’s roles in society in comparison to men’s: particularly the conventions that women should be cooking to serve or attract a man and should enjoy a certain quantity of food that is feminine and proper.
The series deftly touches on these topics while spending the vast majority in celebration and enjoyment of food and friendship free from expectation, with hints that their relationship is moving toward romance.
Volume 3 grows their little oasis of acceptance and joy by introducing an online friend who is an ace lesbian, and a new neighbor whose relationship with food is different but troubled; she eats little and finds no enjoyment in food and was shamed for it growing up, and avoids social situations with food due to the judgment and pressures she experiences.
Introduction and education on asexuality, demisexuality, and disordered eating are handled with the same gentleness and turn toward acceptance and joy that previous themes and topics have been.
This series is an unreserved 5 stars, one I’d like to own when I can, and enthusiastically recommend.
“She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat” volume 3 by Sakaomi Yuzaki.
Absolutely adore this series, cannot recommend highly enough. While a simple premise: neighbors bond over a love of food and start to cook together, this is so above and beyond. It’s incredible.
Each volume is a celebration of how food and cooking can bring people together, but also tackles societal expectations over women’s bodies, women’s relationship to food, and women’s roles in society in comparison to men’s: particularly the conventions that women should be cooking to serve or attract a man and should enjoy a certain quantity of food that is feminine and proper.
The series deftly touches on these topics while spending the vast majority in celebration and enjoyment of food and friendship free from expectation, with hints that their relationship is moving toward romance.
Volume 3 grows their little oasis of acceptance and joy by introducing an online friend who is an ace lesbian, and a new neighbor whose relationship with food is different but troubled; she eats little and finds no enjoyment in food and was shamed for it growing up, and avoids social situations with food due to the judgment and pressures she experiences.
Introduction and education on asexuality, demisexuality, and disordered eating are handled with the same gentleness and turn toward acceptance and joy that previous themes and topics have been.
This series is an unreserved 5 stars, one I’d like to own when I can, and enthusiastically recommend.
“She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat” volume 3 by Sakaomi Yuzaki.