From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Oishinbo  Japanese Cuisine   
   Art by Akira Hanasaki   
   Story by Testu Kariya   
   Published by Viz   
      
   	Ostensibly the story of a contest between two newspapers to chose   
   either ones "Supreme Menu" or the others "Ultimate Menu" this is the   
   story of a father-son conflict   
   acted out in the restaurants and banquet halls of Japan.   
   	I was lucky enough to find two volumes one concerned with Japanese Cuisine   
   in general and the other with Fish, Sushi and Sashimi at the SF Public   
   Library today   
   about 1030.  I spent most of the afternoon reading them.  They really   
   hold your   
   attention and all the recipes are real.  I think that Viz has about 7   
   volume of   
   these and had I the cash to spare I would hie me out to the Kinokuniya   
   manga shop   
   in San Francisco and buy them all.   
   	Each volume is soft bound but with stiff cover and is about 6 x 8.25   
   inches,   
   with 258 pages of the story and 12 pages of cultural notes, a couple of   
   recipes   
   in slick color backing the contents page, pictures of the recurrent cast   
   of about   
   a dozen individuals.   
      
   	Viz does really good with this series.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
   	   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)