Yoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: "Madam surprises Shiro with a gift that he quickly puts to good use. Shino asks Shiro for advice on how to keep her new husband fit and healthy. Kayoko invites Shiro to a cherry blossom picnic, at which Shiro is rescued from romantic disaster. Kenji gets a spiffy new suit for his birthday, and the couple considers the implications of a new same-sex partnership certificate law in Shibuya..." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: A hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table, where they can discuss their troubles, thrash out their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals! Intrepid lawyer/gourmand, shiro, deals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: "There is a Japanese saying that goes, 'Hana yori dango, ' or 'dumplings over flowers.' And no one is more of an advocate of this adage than mangaka Y-naga, a woman whose life revolves around her intense work and equally intense sleep schedule. The only thing that can rouse her out of this infernal cycle of deadlines and being dead to the world? Food. As Y-naga and her friends visit restaurants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NOTSummary: Serving western cuisine, Nekoya is an ordinary place to dine--until Saturdays. That₂s when the doors swing open to elves, demons, and even dragons hungry for the unique. On the menu? Succulent dishes, savory stories, and an experience you₂ll never forget!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME RESYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: "As his clients get on in years, Kenji starts offering house call haircuts, which leads to the most emotional moment of Kenji's career as a stylist. Shino asks for someone to split the burden of clerical work at the office and the firm ends up with a very perceptive new employee. And Kohinata calls Shiro in a panic asking for help with Gilbert, and ultimately makes Shiro a very intriguing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: Aa hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table, where they can discuss their troubles, thrash out their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals! For Kenji's birthday Shiro gifts a trip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: Please note this is a gay manga novel. 'What Did You Eat Yesterday?' is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts casual romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHABarbery, Muriel
Summary: A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARKnisley, Lucy.
Summary: "Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Shino gets engaged to someone unexpected, Shiros cooking buddy Kayoko contends with her growing family, and Shiro confronts new challenges as his parents get on in years--and the common thread in each family unit is cooking that comes from the heart. Shiro gets a surprising offer at work, and Kenji comes home with a surprise of his own"--Penguin Random House website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAKing, Crystal
Summary: "Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: In this second installment of Fumi Yoshinaga's deliciously charming slice-of-gay-life, we delve into the beginnings of Shiro and Kenji's relationship. Shiro continues to expand his culinary creativity while dealing with problomatic clients and his well-meaning but misguided mother, who comes to rely on him when a health scare hits close to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAFussell, Betty Harper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.3 FUSYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: Part comic, part cookbook. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, Shiro and Kenji will always have down-time together by the dinner table where they can discuss their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals. Not only is food incorporated into the narrative, but the frames...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAGrimwood, Jonathan
Summary: Follows an adventurous man, once a penniless orphan, through French society during the Enlightenment as he searches for the perfect taste, befriends Benjamin Franklin, becomes pen pals with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire and improves contraceptive methods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIWest, Michael Lee.
Summary: By watching a multitude of relatives cook, squabble, and carry on tradition, West went from a noncooking student to a full-on gourmet of food and words. Wonderfully presented and thoroughly entertaining, this warm and witty work unites West's evocative voice and humor with the uniquely American form of kitchen tables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 WestYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: In this volume of discovery and acceptance, we learn that happiness depends on small constant pleasures (meals first and foremost)-and that the reason Kenji fell for Shiro has to do with an '80s manga. As the couple's relationship deepens, author Yoshinaga takes the slice-of-life genre to unique heights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: Please note this is a gay manga novel. 'What Did You Eat Yesterday?' is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts casual romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
Contents: Serve it forth.--Consider the oyster.--How to cook a wolf.--The gastronomical me.--An alphabet for gourmets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1976
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where secrets hidden within a treasured recipe book have dire consequences for all who own it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021