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[[File:banquet by cooking mama.jpg|link=Cooking Mama|frame|Great. Now I'm hungry.]]

 

This cook can whip up confections that make taste buds weep with joy, and make characters want to just stuff themselves, because the food [[Impossibly Delicious Food|is that good.]] Be warned though, this character takes insults to their art ''very'' personally!

 

Contrast [[Lethal Chef]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Sunako from ''[[The Wallflower]]'' is an excellent cook, especially with Japanese food.

* Chef Pierre, the resident chef at Rich Manor (you know, where [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]] lives.)

 

* Mikuru in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', after several [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|training sessions]].

 

== Film - Animation ==

* The Other Mother in ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'' is shown to be able to whip out what is basically the very definition of [[Food Porn]] at a moment's notice.

 

== Film - Live Action ==

* Wan from ''Flavour of Happiness''.

* Martha and Mario from ''[[Mostly Martha]]''; also Kate and Nick from [[Foreign Remake|the remake]] ''No Reservations''.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The main character in Joanne Harris' ''[[Chocolat]]'' and [[The Film of the Book]] is a chocolatier whose creations are mouth-watering enough to win over an entire town of strict Catholics during Lent.

* In Mur Lafferty's novel ''Playing For Keeps'' one of the characters has a superpower that makes her a Supreme Chef. She intuitively knows what kind of food everyone around her likes and exactly how to prepare it.

* The titular character of James White's ''[[Sector General|The Galactic Gourmet]]'' ran out of professional challenges at the five-star restaurant he ran at a multispecies hotel, and was feeling bored until a Kelgian diner personally thanked him for a good meal, having just been released from [[Sector General]]. This led to the Great Gurronsevas heading for the Final Frontier - hospital food. He became the Chief Dietician of [[Sector General]]. (Since he effectively became a head of department without going through the hospital's usual screening and training procedures, [[Hilarity Ensues]].)

* Dracula. Yes, ''that'' ''[[Dracula]]''. In the original Bram Stoker [[Dracula (novel)|novel]], when Harker is staying at Castle Dracula, he notes in his journal that the food is very good. Later, it's revealed that there are no servants (it would be tough to get people to work for a, y'know, ''vampire'') and Dracula has been doing all the work, such as cooking. Apparently, when you're an undying abomination you have time to pick up a culinary hobby.

** Either him or his wives.

** Too bad that gene [[Lethal Chef|apparently skipped over Molly.]]

* In David R. Palmer's ''Emergence'', the ''eleven-year-old boy'' who calls himself "Adam" turns out to be this, among other skills unlikely for the son of wealth and privilege. Granted that he's a mutant super-genius, it's still odd, and protagonist/narrator Candy (also an eleven-year-old mutant super-genius) comments on it, that Adam chose to include world-class cooking among his skills. Susceptible readers may gain five pounds just from the description given of the "work of sheerest culinary artistry" he prepares for Candy in the course of one day.

* [[Nero Wolfe]]'s cook, Fritz Brenner is a supreme chef. Nero himself is pretty good, ''when'' he decides to exert himself.

* The Eternal Emperor of the ''[[Sten]]'' series is a spectacular chef. A major hobby of his is trying to recreate foods he remembers from his youth, thousands of years ago.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* King Silas in the intrigue alternate-world drama ''[[Kings]]'' insists in cooking for his family every morning, and misses the time in which he went to the supermarket and "fought for the best melon", and still he goes to the grocery himself and buys his ingredients, yet they clear the shop. Because he is the King. This makes him this trope's paradigma.

* Vincent in ''[[Eureka]]'', to the point that the diner has no menu, and some residents consider it a challenge to order something he can't do.

* LeBeau, the French member of the ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' team, is of course a good cook. The greatness comes in the fact that he can concoct excellent dinners and desserts with the materials available inside a POW camp, making him have almost [[MacGyver]]-esque cooking skills.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'': [[The Ace]] Tendou is most well known for being an excellent cook. He managed to get his cooking skills from working at his grandmother's oden shop revealed in [[Kamen Rider Decade]].

* ''[[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire]]'' once featured a Cook-off between [[Team Chef|Tama-chan]] and Chukaen. Tama won by making a delicious soup out of a fish-head and the remains of a leek.

* Sookie from ''[[Gilmore Girls]]''. She's so obsessed with cooking that she catered her own wedding parties and was still putting icing on the cake on her wedding day.

* Monica Geller from [[Friends]], who makes her living as a professional chef and offers a contrast with [[Lethal Chef]] Rachel.

* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] appears to be a whiz in the kitchen, depending on incarnation. In "The Lodger," he manages to assemble a satisfying enough omelette for two from some eggs, stray cheeses, and salad dressing.

** Living as a bachelor for most of a thousand years you pick up a few things.

* Marie Barone from ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' is described as a spectacular Italian chef. It's the only leverage she has against her useless husband, and it is the source of a great deal of jokes at [[Lethal Chef|Debra]]'s expense.

* ''[[Doc Martin]]'': Martin himself. He might be uptight, a stick-in-the-mud, and unexpressive in every other aspect of his life, but his gastronomic creations show a singular passion and creativity. Notable that even during his relationship with Louisa he still insisted on doing the cooking for both of them.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The Food College of magic in ''[[GURPS]]'' can make you into this, especially once you can cast Essential Food, which creates good food in its purest elemental form. That might be cheating, though.

 

== Theater ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Elzam from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' fit this trope as well, an excellent commander as well as an excellent chef. The first thing he does when transferred to a new post is cook up a gourmet meal for all the soldiers stationed there. He's also able to survive Kusuha's [[Gargle Blaster|"energy drinks"]] without fainting and identify all the ingredients used based on the taste. His [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] is even named Ratsel Feinschmecker, which means "mystery gourmet".

* Chef Shmi of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' says this of himself. Not that anybody disagrees.

*** Rebecca the Archer too. In her B support with Lowen, she actually makes him lunch to thank him for saving her at the beginning of the game. No wonder they can be paired up.

** As is Oscar in ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius]]'', from taking care of his little brothers Boyd and Rolf. He stopped being the [[Team Chef]] of the Greil Mercenaries to let Mist have a go, though Ike wasn't so keen on the idea. He offers to help [[Lethal Chef|Tanith]] with cooking, in their POR support.

** In ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'', you have Sophia who's Skill level in cooking is 43, she can even work on a budget and in a hurry as her Cost and Time modifiers might show. Nel is about as handy in the kitchen as she is with a blade and Mirage isn't half bad either.

*** As for NPCs you can recruit, you have [[Big Eater|Rigel]], [[Genki Girl|Mayu]], The Killer Chef and [[The Alcoholic|Damda Mooda]]. Mayu and Damda might raise doubts for their skill level, but canonically speaking they're still exceptional chefs.

** The MC's actually an odd case; he's a supreme chef if you make the right choices. Make the wrong ones and he's a [[Lethal Chef]]; thankfully, the truly horrible blunders just give you bait for fishing.

* Shinjiro Aragaki in ''[[Persona 3]]'' proves capable of cooking restaurant-quality dishes (while lecturing [[Lethal Chef|Fuuka]] at the same time). With a little prompting from the female protagonist, he makes a lavish dinner for the team, with every dish described as looking like a picture out of a cookbook and tasting delicious. In the PSP [[Remake]], the female protagonist herself specializes in sweets which can be given as gifts, and can even remedy some of Fuuka's cooking blunders.

* In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', Bowser reluctantly admits that [[Big Bad|Fawful's]] cooking is amazing.

* in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', you character can become one if he or she has high enough survival skills. Being able to turn a rotten piece of meat from an mutated animal into a first-class gourmet dish. Strangely enough, [[Complete Monster|Cook-Cook]] of the [[Exclusively Evil|Fiends]] is noted as a highly skilled cook despite being a drug-addled pyromaniacal rapist.

* The 'main' Ann in most ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games shows signs of this. Ironically, in her [[Harvest Moon 64|first game]] she was a [[Lethal Chef]].

* One of the targets in the [[Murder, Inc.|Dark Brotherhood]] questline in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' is a legendary chef known only as "The Gourmet". Certain members state that his recipes indeed live up to their reputation and are actually somewhat disappointed that he's to be assassinated. He keeps his identity a secret with only the chef of Markarth knowing who he is: {{spoiler|Turns out he's an Orc.}}

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has [[Fan Nickname|Magical Gohda Chef]]. [[Battle Butler|Ronove]] as well. In [[Omake|The Stakes' Valentine's Day]], Gohda is so impressed when [[Crack Pairing|Beelzebub]] gives him some of Ronove's chocolate that he immediately leaves for Belgium to train to be a better cook.

** Gohda shouldn't be left out either. There's a reason Beelzebub gave him the chocolate and it wasn't out of love; she wanted something good in return on White Day.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Piffany in ''[[Nodwick]]'' can end wars with a brownie.

* Jamie in ''[[Leftover Soup]]'' can turn Rice Crispies ''back into rice.''

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Tiana, from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.

* Remy, from ''[[Ratatouille]]''.

* Canonically, Ron Stoppable from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is a pretty good chef, especially compared to borderline [[Lethal Chef]] Kim. Fanon of course exaggerates both.

* Even though she's not stated outright to be this, Pinkie Pie from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' works as a baker/candy maker, and is pretty great at it.