For the Food & Cooking square of
my trope bingo card!
11 15 fic recs all centered around food or cooking. About half of those are Sanji-centric One Piece fics b/c that's where my head has been lately, but there's also some Pushing Daisies, Leverage, Fire Emblem, Fallout 4, Hiveswap, Naruto.
Will be updated as I find more gems! In the meantime enjoy, and if you read anything you like don't forget to tell the author <3
20/04/21: 3 years down the line, this has been updated enough that this header is a bit silly but I'm keeping it for posterity. Many fic & art recs that are all about food and cooking, from p. much every fandom I've been into these past few years. Enjoy.
( To the recs! )Starting off with a recent fave! Despite the tags, Franky is only there for the first bit; the rest is all Sanji bonding with a young Fishman girl and her family, and it’s a fucking delight. Great OCs, great worldbuilding, great Sanji characterization.
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The Straw Hat Pirates have no idea how much it takes to feed them, and Sanji is determined to keep it that way
Pretty much exactly what the title offers: a day in Sanji’s life, complete with a lot of Straw Hat shenanigans and Luffy being. Luffy.
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What if Intelligent Systems let more women talk to each other, and also could write decent gay content? I did it instead.
A support line for Charlotte and Felicia that progresses to S-rank.
Very cute canon-style fic (with sprites!) in which Charlotte offers cooking lessons and Felicia fails at them. A lot.
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At least Olive didn't wander around kitchens unemployed and unannounced.
In which Olive makes a valiant effort to be more family-friendly, and take the name of fruits in vain. Cute, funny, and delightfully in character for the whole cast.
When they got out of this part of the Grand Line, Zolo was never letting another piece of squid touch him again. For now though, he'd eat it with no complaint.
One of the first fic I read in the fandom, and still one of my favourites. A rough patch leaves the crew with limited food supplies, everyone grows tired of eating squid, and Zoro shows support in his own way.
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Full Up on Foils by Anonymous (Homestuck, Gen, 2400 words):
Dirk can't cook real food, Jane is horrified by what he does attempt to eat, and a very tiny secret plot ensues. Mostly, it's just the beautiful feeling of friendship.
Dirk & Jane friendship fic with fantastic dialogue and a side dish of Earth C worldbuilding, feat. rock tea, knife-adjacent implements and the twenty-three essential sugars.
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A couple of firsts for Alec and Eliot.
Eliot sees Hardison’s kitchen, Hardison sees Eliot’s computer, and neither one is very happy with what he sees. Short, clever, and full of humour.
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Sanji smokes cigarettes for a couple of reasons.
A look at Sanji, food, and the long-term consequences of starving as a child. Unlike every other rec on this list this one deals with some pretty heavy stuff so please mind the warnings in the author’s note.
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NEWS IN BRIEF - Local - Food - Issue 50-04 - Jan 24, 2014
This one is so short there’s not really anything I can say about it except that it fits right in with the silliest parts of the game, and at 101 words there’s really no reason for you not to give it a read.
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“You’re gunna kill me, hollerin’ like that,” he said as he made his way down the stairs.
“You say that about everything I do,” she protested, still enchanted by whatever was inside the dome. She was clicking buttons frantically but he didn’t think she was getting anywhere.
“Kind of hoping if I go it’ll be because of a perfect ten,” he said, nudging her as he finally got down the stairs.
Nebulad’s OCs are always compelling and Audrey is no exception. Part of a series, but can definitely be enjoyed as a standalone, though I’d heartily recommend giving the whole thing a go anyway.
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tumblr prompt fill: Mac & Cal + "You want me to do what?"
Cal has sorely missed good food and enlists MacCready in food prep.
Another author with great OCs! In which Cal harasses Mac into hunting some chickens and laments the difficulties of post-apocalyptic cooking.
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Joey's been having trouble finding food to eat since she landed on Alternia. Xefros decides to cook her something.
In which Xefros discovers strange facts about aliens and puts his butler training to good use. Nice friendship fluff that doesn’t quite let you forget life’s been kind of a dick to these kids.
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If you leave a secret in the box just outside their compound's back door, an Akimichi will eat it, written on rice paper.
This one is a bit of a different take on the prompt, but I couldn’t not include it. A very cool piece of worldbuilding about the Akimichi Clan the kind of which I wish we had in canon.
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Sanji didn't wonder why he gave himself the challenge. It didn't matter why. ‘Why’ was probably covered by one-upping the bloody swordsman, and maybe there were other reasons - stranger reasons - but that was the only one that really counted, right? It was decided. He was going to get Zoro to appreciate - no, love Sanji's food. If Sanji couldn't do it, then he wasn't a true sea-cook after all.
There is an accidental, additional theme to my One Piece recs and that theme is: Sanji & Zoro nakamaship. In this one, Sanji’s competitiveness gets just a little bit ahead of him, and a lot of delicious, delicious recipes are introduced in the process.
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You're not alone, you know. by dedicatedfollower467 (Homestuck, Gen, 1203 words):
Jane tries to keep Dirk's head screwed on straight, and despite himself, he really appreciates it.
Just some friendship fluff.
Very nice post-canon hurt/comforty fluff! I have a huge soft spot for friendship between the Alpha Kids and this one was an instant fave and also kinda made me crave meat pies.
Not Epilogues compliant, but do watch out for (very vague) spoilers in the author's note.
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