Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, Volume 1
Writer/Artist: Hiromi Sato, created by Kamome Shirahama
Lettering: Lys Blakeslee
Translator: Stephen Kohler
Publisher: Kodansha (Print/Digital)
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Rating: 10+
Genre: Manga (JP), Fantasy, Food, Supernatural
Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, Volume 1, by gorgeous art, brings tasty dishes like scorching stews and indulgent honey-scented pudding cups to life.
I’ve at all times loved cooking; the way you mix totally different substances to make one scrumptious dish looks like magic. Eating dishes that heal the soul and studying recipes handed down for many years add to that magic. Reading Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, Volume 1, felt like being younger once more, studying a brand new recipe, and following my mother across the kitchen. Just in time for the vacations comes the spin-off of the award-winning collection Witch Hat Atelier, filled with many scrumptious dishes.
This spin-off brings again a few of our favourite characters like Coco, Qifrey, Agott, Tetia, Richeh, and Olruggio. Our predominant cooks on this quantity are Qifrey, a sort witch and magic trainer who owns the atelier everybody is part of, and Olruggio, a seemingly blunt witch who supervises the atelier and additionally helps the ladies with their magic. As the style testers of this quantity, we had Coco (a shiny and optimistic woman, enthusiastic to study magic), Agott (a loner witch obsessed with perfecting her magic abilities), Tetia (a bubbly witch who needs to make individuals glad with her magic), and Richeh (a cussed witch, satisfied by her buddies to continue to learn magic).
I adopted alongside with one chapter to see how the ultimate dish would style. I picked the Atelier-style mushroom and bacon croquettes and am glad I did.
As the story goes within the e book, Quifrey needs to make one thing refined after placing the ladies to sleep. He makes use of magic to roast carapace yam (potato or candy potato). While roasting, he dices and cooks bacon and horn caps (mushrooms). Although I couldn’t use an ice spell to chill down my potatoes like Quifrey, the fridge labored simply as nicely. The croquettes had been prepared and turned out scrumptious after a fast fry in a flour, egg, and breadcrumb combine. The outdoors was completely crispy, and the potatoes had been silky easy; the bacon and mushrooms within the potatoes added an amazing umami style to the croquettes. I took some liberties with the veggie selection, however I feel I did job replicating the dish. Like the others, this chapter was simple to comply with and had the gorgeous art that followers are used to from Witch Hat Atelier.
Witch Hat Atelier at all times has lovely and dynamic motion scenes with extremely detailed art, however with the ability to see the characters simply cooking and having fun with their meals was one thing I didn’t know I wanted till now. This may be a private factor, however one in every of my favourite moments is cooking a meal for somebody and seeing them get pleasure from it with their smile. Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen fantastically captured these moments of pleasure that come from seeing your family members glad.
Overall, I positively suggest Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen. There’s a mixture of dishes: soups and stews, pastries, pasta, croquettes, late-night snacks, enjoyable drinks, picnic concepts, chilly cures, and extra. Because there’s a good number of dishes, this quantity is nice for these new at cooking as a result of there are easy recipes like a tacky egg soften and tougher dishes like a rose tart bouquet. Plus, the pacing of the tales makes it simple to duplicate the dishes, and the art is as detailed and spectacular as Witch Hat Atelier.
VERDICT: 5 stars (Highly Recommend) After making the croquettes, I’m excited to attempt to make the “Flying Shrimp & Witch Hat Dumplings.” If you’re keen on cooking or are lacking the Witch Hat Atelier characters, choose up a replica. Kodansha licenses Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, Vol. 1, now out there in print and digital for $12.99.
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