If you enjoyed titles like What Did You Eat Yesterday? and Our Dining Table, this is the drama for you (and me).

The cozy cooking genre (is it a genre?) is one of my favorite things ever and when it's paired with wonderful stories and characters, all the better. I haven't read the comic this is based on but this drama does what it needs to spark my interest.

Higa Manami (stellar performance, as usual) is Nomoto Yuki, a woman living alone who enjoys cooking but doesn't have people around her to share her cooking with as much as she'd like. She is burdened by the social expectations of what being a woman her age means to those around her and what enjoying cooking as a hobby and not a profession seems to imply to them: that she could be a good wife or a good mother. Nomoto san wants to cook because she likes it, for someone who appreciates it, away from the burdens of social expectations.

Nishino Emi (I just met her but I love her) is Kasuga Totoko, a woman living alone in the same apartment building as Nomoto san, who loves to eat. She eats with relish and with respect and awareness of the food she has, enjoying it with presence. She has lived a life in which she is expected and demanded to eat less, because she's a girl and should have smaller portions, consider her figure, and other nonsense that Kasuga san doesn't care about.

Like the red thread of fate, these two meet and magic happens. They connect, not only through food but through each other and it will be a meeting that will set in motion re-thinking what they think they know about themselves.

A wholesome, cozy, food-filled queer jdrama to add to the list of its predecessors and that I hope continues because we need more of these.