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[['''Cooking Stories]]''' are works of fiction or games that revolve around food and drink. The main characters are cooks, chefs or work in some sort of restaurant, bakery, bar, or other establishment dedicated to food. They might also be students studying to be in the food preparation business. Cooking stories are often [[Slice of Life]] shows that have little in the way of action driven plot, but focus on daily life and characters. However, they can use plots similar to [[Sports Stories]]. For example, instead of [[Big Game]] or a [[Tournament Arc]], they might have a cooking competition, or preparing for the visit of an important VIP guest, a major food critic, or the health inspector.

* ''[[Antique Bakery (Manga)|Antique Bakery]]'' is a manga/anime which depicts the lives of four men who work in a small bakery.

* ''[[Bartender (Manga)|Bartender]]'' is a manga series that focuses on a genius bartender who uses his talents to ease the worries and soothe the souls of troubled customers.

* ''[[Chuuka Ichiban (Manga)|Chuuka Ichiban]]'', or ''Cooking Master Boy'', is a manga/anime about a Chinese boy named Liu Mao Xing, who aspires to be a great chef like his mother. The story is set in a fictional Imperial China where cooking is taken seriously.

* ''[[Kitchen Princess (Manga)|Kitchen Princess]]'' follows Najika Kazami, a cooking student who enrolls at Seika Academy to find her "flan prince", a mysterious boy who rescued her from drowning and fed her the flan in question, and who she believes to be a student at said school. Along the way she meets several hot guys and cooks many delicious desserts.

* ''[[Oishinbo (Manga)|Oishinbo]]'' has reporters investigating all sorts of food situations in their quest to find the ultimate menu.

* ''[[Toriko (Manga)|Toriko]]'' manages to combine this with [[Shounen]] series tropes; it's set in a world were gathering rare ingredients is a [[Serious Business]] (and involves killing insanely powerful beasts for their meat or delving into jungles and caves for creatures that only appear very rarely and must be harvested with great skill).

* ''[[Yakitate!! Japan (Manga)|Yakitate!! Japan]]'', has teenaged baker Kazuma Azuma, who dreams of creating a national bread for Japan.

* ''[[Yumeiro Patissiere (Anime)|Yumeiro Patissiere]]'' is about junior-high student Amano Ichigo, who decides she wants to be a pâtissière and enrolls in the Japanese division of a French baking school.

* ''[[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 &and go back to Italy.

* ''[[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 tunsturns out that {{spoiler|a) back in her home country she was an internaionally famous chef, forced by circumstance to make nothing but gruel for the last 14 years and b) Babette spends the entire lottery winnings on the food for the feast}}.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Alice 2009 (TV miniseries)|Alice]]'' takes place mainly at Mel's Diner.

* ''[[Ratatouille (Animation)|Ratatouille]]'' is about a rat named Rémy who wants to become a chef.

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