This eye-catching comic cookbook by Robin Ha offers vividly illustrated Korean recipes, along with sweet, personal asides from Ha. The cookbook opens with a solid foundation of helpful information, including an illustrated guide to a Korean pantry and refrigerator, key ingredients in Korean cuisine, and a Korean meal guide. While all of the foods and meals look amazing, the food illustrations on each chapter heading page truly stand out. Highlights include the vegetable side dishes, like dolsot bibimbap, and the snacks and street food, like tteokbokki and kimchi bokkumbap.

Mariah-Rose Marie has created a memorable comic cookbook that celebrates the art of intuitive cooking. This style of cooking really speaks to me as it relies less on measurements and more on intuitive skills like estimating, using your senses like taste and smell, balancing flavors, and keeping ratios in mind. Marie draws upon vegetarian recipes shared by friends and family from around the world, filling her cookbook with a diverse array of delectable delights, including a seriously scrumptious-looking Salma curry.

This foodie manga by Sakaomi Yuzaki combines slice-of-life cooking with a heartfelt romance. Nomoto loves cooking big meals, and her neighbor Kasuga becomes an enthusiastic taste tester for her. This story really celebrates how food can be its own love language. You’ll find delicious eats like yaki onigiri interwoven throughout this must-read manga series!

While most of these comics emphasize cooking good foods, I appreciate that this cute manga series by Susumu Maeya spotlights the joy in eating. When maid-in-training Suzume Tachibana visits her grandmother in Japan, she finds her visit extending to a year as the British mansion she works at undergoes repairs. Suzume decides to spend the year sampling an array of Japanese cuisine from sweets like melon bread to savories like takoyaki.

Fans of Witch Hat Atelier and those new to the series will love digging into this slice-of-life cooking spin-off series by Hiromi Satō and creator Kamome Shirahama. During the night as Coco and the other Witch Hat Atelier apprentices sleep, Qifrey and Olruggio cook up some mouth-watering meals for themselves and their students. Each chapter focuses on a different foods and ends with the recipes so you can try your hand at cooking them too! The fantasy ingredients often have real world substitutions, and while it’s tough to choose the best meal from the book, the Witch-Hat Pasta With Parasol Jelly and Tomato Cream Sauce looks to die for.

Leisl Adams’ delightful romance graphic novel is perfect for fans of The Great British Bake Off. When a waitress named Rose impresses a food critic, she and her friend Fred get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to compete in a 10-day baking competition. Sweet treats and desserts fill the pages of this book. I love that the recipes of the foods the characters bake are interspersed throughout the story. Rose’s vanilla strawberry shortcake looks especially yummy.

While Ben graduates with an English degree, his initial job search struggles inspire him to pick up a job in a restaurant. As he discovers a knack for cooking, he also begins catching feels for a handsome chef named Liam. The food prepared in Jarrett Melendez’s graphic novel all looks super tasty, but it really hits its stride with the tarts, including a pear tart and Ben’s mushroom ricotta tart. Plus, a couple of recipes from the story appear at the end, too.