Review of 'What Did You Eat Yesterday' on Goodreads
3 stars
I am pretty happy with the manga as I intend to go back into cooking some more - especially japanese-ish food, which I kind of didn't find the time and spoons to do for a long time. Although the recipes (as most japanese recipes) are not vegan, at least not the whole menus, some side dishes are or are easy to veganize.
Unfortunately there is one big drawback (besides the well, rather shallow plot line so far):
SIZEISM, fat-shaming, hatred against big people.
Ugh.
I can hardly stomache it and I am not sure, wether I'm going to buy the following volumes, as this is just to much.
The main characters are gay men (yup, finally gay men, not "I'm straight but happened to find my soulmate in a man"-guys one is used to from the Boys' Love/yaoi manga from the 90s...) and seem to perpetuate all the negative stereotypes …
I am pretty happy with the manga as I intend to go back into cooking some more - especially japanese-ish food, which I kind of didn't find the time and spoons to do for a long time. Although the recipes (as most japanese recipes) are not vegan, at least not the whole menus, some side dishes are or are easy to veganize.
Unfortunately there is one big drawback (besides the well, rather shallow plot line so far):
SIZEISM, fat-shaming, hatred against big people.
Ugh.
I can hardly stomache it and I am not sure, wether I'm going to buy the following volumes, as this is just to much.
The main characters are gay men (yup, finally gay men, not "I'm straight but happened to find my soulmate in a man"-guys one is used to from the Boys' Love/yaoi manga from the 90s...) and seem to perpetuate all the negative stereotypes one knows about fat-hating, narcisstic gays.
This part really saddens me, as I am a fag myself and really don't need that kind of hatred when I am reading a manga - especially one intended as a darn cookbook!
