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Cooking |
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Sweets in Manga |
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by Lorelei Laird |
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Ever since Portuguese traders first introduced the Spanish castella cake (known as kasutera in Japanese) to Japan, people there have adopted Western pastries and candies with enthusiasm—and you can see it in manga. Hunny-sempai from The Ouran High School Host Club is a big fan of all kinds of cakes (as well as anything chocolate!) and in Nana, Nana O.’s trademark desert is strawberry cake, and Ren in Skip♦Beat! is crazy for pudding.
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Cooking: Sweets in Manga has been edited for shojobeat.com;
the complete article appears in the October 2007 issue of Shojo Beat Magazine. |
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