Comic book meets cookbook in “Japanese Cooking With Manga,” a charming illustrated guide to Japanese cuisine by the self-dubbed “Gourmand Gohan” team. (“Gohan,” literally “cooked rice,” is the Japanese term for any meal).
The authors are three 20-something home cooks and friends in Barcelona—illustrator Alexis Aldeguer, designer Ilaria Mauro, and chef Maiko-San, hailing from Osaka, Japan—who joined forces to share their love of Japanese food. The book began as a hand-drawn, hand-bound edition circulated among their friends.
