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White rice with side dishes isn’t really ‘traditional’ Japanese food. So where did we get this idea?
At 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 …