Food Wars volume 2 - Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

 Back for more of this series which, I must say, enjoyed discovering.

Because as I love to cook myself, this is a fun series with a theme that touches my intrest after all, and it is darn funny to boot.

Soma is looking for his dorm, the Polaris Dormitory, which even to people on campus is seemingly unknown.  When he finally arrives, he manages to convince the caretaker of his skills by cooking a meal from scraps, and gain entrance to it as such.

In there, he meets the fellow residents, all eccentrics as that seems to be the ones still remaining in the dorms at the campus, as well as his new-made friend Megumi.  They throw him a welcome party, and he finds out the morning after one of his fellow residents is actually one of the Council of Ten members.  He gets challenged by him to a cook-off, and they draw.  He explains to Soma how the whole challenge system works and it isn`t that easy to get a battle to enter the Council of Ten.

Later, when he is paying a visit to the Bowl Society, he steps in for the don of the club to take on Ikumi Mito, the meat master.  And drop dead babe.  She is one of Erina's lackeys, who wants to bring the club down.  If Soma loses, the club ends and he is expelled, but if he wins, she must join the society as a full time member instead.

Taking the duel with her favorite ingredient, meat, he baffles the judges though, and in doing so saves the club and makes Ikumi join it.  As he is learning more about the garden in the Polaris dormitory, a phamplet arrives to tell them about a mountain trip cooking camp, where in previous years many students where weeded out from the masses.  But being the optimist he is, he is certain all the people in the dorm, including himself and Megumi, will pull through.

Okay, I`m liking this series.  And I think it is pretty awesome that all the recipies are in the books as well of the dishes Soma (and his friends) are making, I really am going to give a hand at some of those in the future!

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