The Anime Cafe

The Anime Cafe

The Anime Café features fan-favorite anime snacks, treats, and drinks with 50 iconic and simple recipes that you can replicate right at home.

Immerse yourself in your favorite anime worlds and café culture, in its myriad forms, through 50 different anime movies and series–from the beloved films of Studio Ghibli to popular series such as One Piece.

Food plays an important role in anime, whether it is briefly shown in a slice-of-life scene or the entire plotline of an episode or even a series, and popular anime food creator Nadine Estero (@issagrill) has perfectly captured these favorite food and drink moments once again, in this follow-up to her best-selling cookbook, The Anime Chef Cookbook.

In The Anime Café, Nadine takes on lighter fare, focusing on 50 drinks, snacks, and sweet treats—traditional Japanese favorites and inventive re-creations—and bringing them from the screen to your table.​ In this cookbook, you’ll find:​

• Foods and drinks from a variety of popular anime series and movies​
• 50 easy-to-make, fun, and delicious recipes​
• A stunning anime-style food illustration accompanying every recipe ​
• Information about the exact episodes that feature the items​
• How to stock your anime kitchen​
• A celebration of Japanese food and culture​

Biographical Notes:

Nadine Estero (@issagrill) knew at the young age of 6 that anime was life. She cried dramatically and begged her mother to immediately stop her piano lessons because it interfered with the airtime of her favorite anime—Dragon Ball Z. Today, Nadine is a food recreationist who shows her enthusiasm and process through her popular social media accounts on platforms including YouTube and TikTok, and as the author of The Anime Chef Cookbook. Her creations are recognized worldwide in many large entertainment websites and publications such as ScreenRant, Dexerto, GaminqDebates, SVG, Kompas, and Speed Maqazine.

Title Notes:

A FOLLOW-UP TO THE BEST-SELLING THE ANIME CHEF COOKBOOK: The Anime Chef series perfectly combines anime and cooking for those new to the world of anime and the biggest anime fans, with its broad inclusion of popular series and movies.

AN EXPERT IN ANIME-INSPIRED CUISINE: Nadine Estero (@issagrill) is an anime enthusiast and food creator, with over 355k followers on TikTok and almost 500k followers on Instagram, who brings anime recipes from the screen to your table.

CAPTURES THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN’S CAFE CULTURE: Japan is known for its variety of cafes, and this book immerses the reader in that world through re-creations of cafe-style foods found in anime, including drinks, snacks, and sweet treats.

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