At the end of each volume of She Loves To Cook and She Loves to Eat, I find myself saying "This is a fucking masterpiece" and well, I said it at the end of this volume too. No other series masterfully captures the little things that people take for granted as normal that are utterly traumatic to women and in particular lesbians. It captures that pain so masterfully and yet also manages to maintain a tone of a sweet and soft lesbian romance. No other series feels so real to lesbian love, the bits of trauma flash backs just make me think like this is how it is talking with a group of queer people someone is thinking about their trauma at any given moment if not sharing it. It doesn't mean it's so sad that it's a downer, that joy isn't to be found but it informs why the moments of joy are so sweet, why it matters so damn much.

This series expands the cast taking it from a two character event to a four character event with both our leads gaining a friend which helps them feel even more complete and allows us to see more aspects of their personalities. Both new characters are utterly charming, their sweet, endearing, and add a lot. I in particular really love our asexual lesbian queen Yako. The friendship between Yako and Nomoto feels so real to my own friendship being mutuals with someone for a long time and it finally turning into a real friendship and getting a lot deeper and closer really fast thanks to this shared familiarity. It was just so sweet to see the bounding in watching lesbian films followed by a talk about how no lesbian is the same like no asexual is the same and how each queer person is gonna be queer in their own special way. It is one of the best moments in manga.

I love the way the story handles sensitivity warnings giving them before the chapter they take place in and allowing you to brace yourself for the volumes different heavier topics of talking about verbal abuse from parents and eating issues. The series really cares about it's readers and it is very clear in the way it is handled that they do. It is really nice to have the verbally abusive parents abuse called what it is too as someone who has suffered through similar it was really nice to see it fought back against in fiction but also knowing the author understood that this was no okay.

The romance really is blooming in this volume with both of their feelings feeling ever so closer to a confession on both ends to the point I would be shocked if in volume 4 if they weren't dating each other. The slow burn is not painful though given that it went slow to really establish a theme moving forward of found family which is literally spoken about in the text. This expansion really is going to make the romance feel even better.

The artwork is fantastic, the food looks so yummy, if the art was in color I might have to take a bite of the book. Of all the series I am reading this is the one I think is the biggest masterpiece, a true showing of understanding of the lesbian condition, the human condition, etc and with a clear set of amazingly good takes about things. 12/10, a masterpiece.