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Not to be confused with [[Cooking Show]]. Compare to [[Sports Stories]] and [[Music Stories]]. Generally involves lots of [[Food Porn]] and other [[Food Tropes]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''Addicted To Curry'' is about a curry restaurant and its ace cook.
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* ''Bambino'' is about a young, ambitious and hot-blooded Italian cuisine apprentice chef.
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* ''Cooking Papa'' is about a husband and father who happens to be really good at cooking and helps people out with this.
* ''[[Iron Wok Jan]]'' is about an [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Arrogant Chinese Cooking Guy]] attempting to prove he's at the top of the Chinese cuisine game.
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* ''Mixed Vegetables'' is a manga about two students at a cooking school: the daughter of a pastry chef, who dreams of being a sushi chef, and the son of a sushi chef, who dreams of being a pasty chef. Each one separately comes up with the idea that if they could just marry into a family with a business in their favorite cuisine, they'd have an excuse to abandon their family cooking tradition for that of their spouse's family....
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* ''Oishii Kankei'' aka ''A Delicious Relationship'' is a manga about a former rich girl becoming a chef.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Big Night]]'' is about a pair of Italian brothers own a restaurant and make a big feast for singer Louis Prima, which they believe will save them from having to close
* ''[[Babette's Feast]]'': Babette has worked for years without pay for a pair of sisters in an ultrareligious sect. (She first came as a political refugee, and they agreed to let her stay but had to work as their cook in exchange for room & board.) Then Babette wins the lottery; she decides to make a meal she wants to make for once, rather than the life-sustaining but extremely bland food the sisters insist on her making. The sisters and the others in the town agree to attend the feast, but all decide amongst themselves not to comment in any fashion on the meal. It
* ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]''
* ''[[The God of Cookery]]'' is a Stephen Chow film that works [[Martial Arts and Crafts|martial arts into the culinary arts]].
* The film ''[[No Reservations (film)|No Reservations]]'' (not to be confused with [[No Reservations|the TV show]], which is a travel show about food).
** And its German original, ''[[Bella Martha]]'' (''Mostly Martha'' in its American release).
* ''[[Tampopo]]'' is a sketch comedy revolving around food. It's main narrative involves a pair of truck drivers who take it upon themselves to revitalize the eponymous character's failing ramen shop.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Good Eats]]'' is a partial example, in that it is a [[Cooking Show]] that often employs a narrative [[Framing Device]] hold the theme together.
* ''[[Two Broke Girls]]''. Not only do the main characters work as waitresses at a diner, they are also trying to raise money to run their own bakery.
* ''[[Alice
== [[Tabletop Game]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Chowder]]'' is about a young chef's apprentice.
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* ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', about a family-run diner.
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