She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat (Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna) is a yuri josei web manga by Sakaomi Yuzaki, which began serialization in the digital manga magazine Comic It in 2021. The manga is licensed in English by Yen Press.
Nomoto is an Office Lady who loves to cook in her spare time, but due to her small stomach, she feels as though she can't cook the ambitious foods that she wants to. Lucky for her, her neighbor Kasuga has a big enough appetite for the both of them. And maybe they'll both get lucky and form a deeper connection than mere dinner companions.
Was adapted into a live-action show which ran for 10 episodes from November 29-December 14, 2022. A second 20-episode season was announced for 2024.
Tropes Used Include:
- Ate It All: Inverted when Kasuga ordered a plated of food for herself at a work event and her coworkers pass the plate around the table.
- Big Eater: Kasuga, which Nomoto finds quite charming. She has some insecurities about this, as she's had to hold back on the portions she eats for most of her life due to society considering women with large appetites "unladylike".
- Bland-Name Product: In volume 2 Nomoto and Kasuga "Netzflix" and chill while in volume 3 Yako mentions watching someone on "voustube"
- Broken Bird: Kasuga and Nao are both implied to be these.
- Canon Foreigner: Sayama as of the third volume.
- Chubby Chef: Inverted with Nomoto, who loves to cook in her spare time but is actually quite thin and has a small appetite, which she feels is holding her back as a chef.
- Closet Key: Kasuga for Nomoto.
- Commonality Connection: Nomoto and Kasuga initially bond over a mutual love of food.
- Content Warning: The second volume of the manga features a warning from the author and editorial staff preceding Nomoto's google search that there might be words and phrases that might be triggering to some readers. The third volume has two warnings-one for scenes where one of the characters gets verbally abused by a relative and an other for a chapter which delves into Nagumo's food-based anxiety.
- Crush Blush: Nomoto does this quite a bit.
- Cue the Sun: The 10th episode of the Live-Action Adaptation ends at sunrise on New Year's Day.
- Dinner Order Flub: At one point Kasuga goes to a restaurant by herself and is served a smaller portion of rice than is considered standard due to the chef making an assumption about her based on her gender.
- Disowned Parent: Kasuga to her family. Nao is trying to decide if this is the path she should take as well.
- Drop-In Character: Kasusuga to Nomoto. Nao has potential to be one as well.
- Everyone Can See It: The "it" in question is whether or not Nomoto and Kasuga's feelings are mutual.
- Family of Choice: Kasuga explicitly has an internal monologue about this in the third volume.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: When a male coworker sees her homemade lunch he remarks that she'll make a great wife and mother.
- Food Porn: Cooking and eating food is part of the manga's premise.
- Her Boyfriend's Jacket
- If It's You, It's OK:
Word of Gay states that Kasuga is demiromantic and Nomoto is demisexual. - Improbable Food Budget: Averted; Nomoto and Kasuga discuss their food budgets at the beginning of their relationship with Kasuga even offering to reimburse Nomoto for food costs. There are also several instances of certain food items being referred to as splurges.
- I Want Grand Kids: At one point Nomoto's mother tells her to stop screwing around and settle down.
- Late Coming Out: Nomoto is implied to be in her late twenties or early thirties.
- Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Nomoto and Kasuga live next door to each other.
- Live-Action Adaptation: It had a 10-episode run in 2022 with a second season of 20 episodes announced for 2024.
- Lonely Together: While neither Nomoto and Kasuga have much of a social life, they at least have each other.
- Mentor in Queerness: Yako for Nomoto.
- No Guy Wants an Amazon: Kasuga's father expresses this sentiment when trying to convince her to quit her job to care for her ailing grandmother.
- No Periods, Period: Averted; Nomoto and Kasuga have to alter their plans at one point when Nomoto is incapacitated by her period.
- Office Lady: Nomoto works in an office.
- One Head Taller: Kasuga to Nomoto.
- Parental Favoritism: Kasuga is said to have been a victim of this.
- Romance-Inducing Smudge: It's actually a crumb but the point stands.
- Sick Episode: The fourth chapter has Nomoto stuck in bed due to period cramps. Nomoto ends up missing Christmas with Kasuga when she gets a massive burn out-induced cold.
- The Stoic: Kasuga doesn't show as wide of a variety of facial expressions as Nomoto.
- Through His Stomach: It's right there in the premise.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Kasuga.
- Unfortunate Search Results: When Nomoto consults a search engine to help her sort out her feelings for Kasuga and what that might say about her several links to hentai show up on her screen.
