White rice with side dishes isn’t really ‘traditional’ Japanese food. So where did we get this idea?
- Written by: Laura Emily Clark, Lecturer in Japanese, University of New England
Delicious in Dungeon WikiAt first glance, Netflix’s popular Japanese animation Delicious in Dungeon is a strangely food-obsessed dungeon-crawler fantasy tale.
Upon a closer look, however, it reveals itself as a striking parody of the popular “gourmet genre”. The series invites us to think critically about how food traditions are...