Everybody talking about the cooking, and I just wanna know why the **** there's a random pink sfx in page 17.
Unless it's pink in the raws (which I doubt it is), making it pink is just jarring and ugly.

Also, on page 23, there shouldn't be a comma after "it's natural"

Not much of an isekai, as a similar voyage can be made by anyone with a plane ticket and a valid British visa.

>Big Ben in panel
>"The food was AWFUL!"
...Okay, granted.
Stereotype? Yes. Truthful? Also yes. Even many Brits admit, albeit usually begrudgingly, that their cuisines are shit.

>Hard bread
Considering she seems to be with a all off family, the chances of them having hard bread for daily meals is... Extremely unlikely. It would, in this setting, likely be freshly made bread that was made for everyday (and in case of historical times, except on the sabbath, wherein then having stale bread or some sort of hard tack would be justified if they weren't baking it themselves). Bakeries were a huge thing in those times for a reason. The miller was a highly respected and integral occupation for a reason. If you look at cultures and people that still live similarly to those times, a lot of their daily time is taken up doing things like making bread or preparing the ingredients or ability to make bread (including the farming and harvesting of grains).

By the way, freshly made bread with no preservatives and made well? IS FUCKING DELICIOUS. Especially when it's still warm. Take that and put a little bit of butter (which is going to be around if they drink/have milking animals) or cheese (ditto) and... god damn, I'd be happy just eating that. Seriously, the bread that you get at stores that is filled with modern preservatives and made at high volume doesn't even compare. This is one of the few times where the old, traditional way being better is not just nostalgic bullshit. And it makes sense why - the chemistry of making it is drastically altered.

Given the comments and just this little from the first chapter, you can already see how dreadfully ignorant of European history that the mangaka is. Which is understandable... I don't know shit about 14th century Japanese culinary history. Then again, I'm not writing or drawing fiction about it. And if I did, I'd probably do more investigating about it than reading some wikipedia articles and just going by stereotypes and what I've heard repeated. Medieval European culture, especially things like cuisine, differed wildly and drastically from place to place, and even from relatively short time to time. No, not all medieval Europeans drank only ale/mead/wine. Not everyone was constantly drunk. No, they didn't just boil everything until it was consistently brown/gray in a big pot. Yes, sometimes the food was shit. Sometimes it's still shit, like with the British. But your historical counterparts were still human and they weren't all morons. And if they had to eat to live, they'd want to at least enjoy it. Hence why spices were highly sought after. Hence why agriculture was always being improved. Hence why trade flourished. And when Europeans first step foot on Japanese soil, you damn well better bet one of the things that they were interested in was the food and what tasted good.

wow rrly funny how ppl the the comments rage about this :D

why not accept how ppl have diffrent tastes? british food sucks is btw a pretty damn common opinion...

also going by personal experience i dont like japanese food^^ everything i tasted so far was crap(except for some sweets but cant do much wrong with sugar i guess) which means in return a japanese person would probably dislike what i like ^^

(Is in a medieval-like world)
Living standars are equal to a world that has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years of higher technology. (We're advancing 25 000 years every year, when it comes to research and technology)

Needs more msg

She was no jealous of her co-worker, she was envious, i.e. she didn't travel in the first place so she didn't feel jealous of her for getting that vacation or special offer at the travel agency or whatever the case would be for jealousy.

And so many people talking about European food... shouldn't we first set a time and a place, where this (old) European food exists? Sweden ate different things than Sicily and Aragon had different food customs than Bavaria. And this is just the different places, if we also consider the time (Dark Age, High Middle Ages, Renaissance) the food varied much more even disregarding stuff from the New World or from India and Ancient China. Heck, Marco Polo revolutionized the food in Europe as much as Columbus or Muslim conquests.

First time I saw that fairy I thought she was a sweets spirit.

@elfalas Old european cooking was nasty for a reason though. Most areas only grew a handful of crops, and any ingredients were mostly locally foraged, and there was little to no food storage so the poor generally only ate things that kept for long periods, like grains and root vegetables. Europe was a backwater area after the fall of the roman empire, far from the center of culture. Even then, at least the nobility had decent fucking food.

Once a country starts fucking trading and building cities, there is no excuse for it still having shit food other than religion or war. Or basic biology.

But no this is basically Idiocracy, but for cooking. Where the only reason the main character looks good at all is because the entire society is inexplicably retarded.

Let's be honest, this comment section is more interesting than the manga itself is ever going to be.

@Askun hmmmm i see okay then ^^

"Please stop escaping reality!"
that message was sent to you all weebs.

perhaps the food in that world is so bad that the goddess had to risk interdimensional calamity by literally isekai-ing someone who actually knows how to cook lol

reckon even my bad cooking skills aren't even THAT bad. bless grandma's cooking skills.

I see there are plenty here that have no clue how nasty most old european cuisine was.
Hint, the versions you taste in restaurants specializing in such have been altered to improve the taste quite alot,
and if you talk about it with them they'll explain why and can even offer you to taste the old originals..
Atleast most alterations are done using stuff that was available back then too,
which just shows people back then didn't experiment all that much.

Maybe because they thought of food more as something you just need to live rather than something you enjoy, who knows?

IMO the world didn't evolve like ours, it was made by the Goddess in haste, so to speak, and people were given basic knowlege of culture and cuisine. Also, they were blessed with spirits' power and magic from the beginning, so they didn't have to do much trial and error thing, and they revere the goddess so much, that they just follow the things she taught them, not giving it much thought and without developing their creativity. And Risa's mission is not so much to make the cuisine better, as to inspire the locals to find alternative ways of doing things and so on. (I didn't read past chapter 3 yet, so it's just my IMHO which doesn't have much basis to it)
BTW, if you want to read the translation before the scanlation is out, welcome to MY SITE(as of now there're 3 translated chapters), there you'll be also able to suggest any corrections you think necessary prior to the scanlation(Just select the line or word, or phrase, press CTRL+ENTER, insert your comment and send - it will come straight to my e-mail).
About Tasha - IDK, it really bothers me to call her Shia. Maybe I should rename her to Tasia or Sia (Quote from Wiki: Short form(s), Stacey, Nastya, Stacie, Sia, Tasia and Stacy.)

while I'll still give it a chance,

As many said they better explain how is it possible that a whole entire world couldn't make even a decent meal, then again, they seemed to enjoy just fine their own food
And yeah.."comedy" or not the way she shouted made me go ugh

I guess it's like any other Isekai insert where you're supposed to feel better "developing"(double ugh) the world, but sometimes that can be done so wrong

Tldr: I'll give it a chance but..

MUH RICE

MUH SOY SAUCE

MUH MUHYONAISSE

MY SUPERIOR JAPANESE FOODSTUFFS

There, saved you five volumes.

I have the long ill fated hope that the staff hates her and she's been getting the worst of the worst.

But we know that's not to be. In the real world the staff hates her because she always has a sour face when eating their non-japanese might as well be cave man foodstuffs.

This manga is setting up some European situation that never existed in real life. No spices equal bland food? Really? Have you actually been to Europe Author?

Where's the cheese, dairy based foods, the sausages, pickled foods that real Europeans eat? Yes no potatoes or tomatoes, but really, no mention of European specialties like Ham, Jerky, Pies etc? REALLY? They spent months preparing for winter, Europe had plenty of time to make tasty preserved foods like the rest of the world. Also, if the food is bland, WHY DON'T YOU COOK IT IN ANIMAL FAT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES.

Also, does the author not understand butter is life and Olive oil and Eggs are great in Europe? Or that Raisin bread in Europe where wine and grape cultivation was common? How about Fruit pies and traditional fruit based drinks and foods? Or beans yeah? You would be surprised how good beans taste when cooked correctly. Actually, how about anywhere that bread is made was probably good at finding ways to make it tasty.

And if the bread is so hard. . . . . DUNK THE DAMN BREAD IN THE SOUP. Everyone does it JUST DO IT. MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, JUST DO IT!

This chapter needs some more proofreading. I saw multiple grammar mistakes and as @Nozomi pointed out, "Tasha" is not short for Anastasia. (it would have been better to just leave it as Shia than to make it a completely nonsensical nickname)

As for the story, I think it could be decent. I just hope the food she introduces is not just tons of Japanese dishes. I dislike that the food is somehow gross; There's no way that with that level of magitech that they would not have the freedom to experiment in cooking.