Big Comic Spirits
is a long-running cooking manga written by and drawn by . The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for delicious, "oishii", and the word for someone who loves to eat, "kuishinbo". The series depicts the adventures of culinary journalist Shirō Yamaoka and his partner (and later wife), Yūko Kurita. It was published by Shogakukan between 1983 and 2008 in "Big Comic Spirits", and resumed again on February 23, 2009, only to be put on an indefinite hiatus after the May 12, 2014 edition in the weekly Big Comic Spirits as a response by the publisher to harsh criticism of Oishinbo's treatment of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.