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** While on holiday in Sicily, Henrietta prepares a meal but has no idea that what she's preparing is barely adequate until the adult Section One agent Elenora convinces her to add more ingredients. It shows Henrietta is playing at being an adult but has no idea what to do, as she's never learned to cook for her own enjoyment.

** While on holiday in Sicily, Henrietta prepares a meal but has no idea that what she's preparing is barely adequate until the adult Section One agent Elenora convinces her to add more ingredients. It shows her Henrietta is playing at being an adult but has no idea what to do, as she's never learned to cook for her own enjoyment.

* Discussed in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' when Akane and [[ShipperOnDeck Carlos]] are locked in the pantry. When Akane mentions baking cookies as a child, Carlos asks is she made heart-shaped cookies for Junpei filled with love. She asks him to stop teasing her, but doesn't deny it. At another point when they're making gelatin as part of a puzzle, Carlos suggests that making some for Junpei and giving it to him with the words "I made it just for you" would instantly win his heart.

* In Sumerian myth, Inanna wanted to marry the farmer Enkimdu, but her brother Utu wanted her to
marry the shepherd Dumuzi. Dumuzi confronts her and argues, scornfully comparing the dates and other foods the farmer could give her to the cheeses, yogurts, and other dairy products he could. This won the day. As a consequence, her temples maintain massive herds of sheep for the offering of butter and cheese necessary for her worship.

* In ''Literature/{{Maburaho}}'' Yuna constantly cooks for Kazuki and brings him bento boxes, because "that's what a wife is supposed to do". This is also played with in two instances, one being where Rin wants to try to cook an bento for a teacher she had a crush on; however, as she isn't as feminine as the rest of the female cast, [[LethalChef her cooking tastes horrible]]. [[spoiler: In the end, she doesn't give the bento to the teacher, but instead gives it to Kazuki who eats it all, despite its horrible taste.]] Also, when Kazuki's parents are supposed to come over to visit, upon learning eel is their favourite meal, all three girls attempt to prepare eel to impress his parents.

* In Sumerian myth, Inanna wanted to marry the farmer Enkimdu, but her brother Utu wanted to her marry the shepherd Dumuzi. Dumuzi confronts her and argues, scornfully comparing the dates and other foods the farmer could give her to the cheeses, yogurts, and other dairy products he could. This won the day. As a consequence, her temples maintain massive herds of sheep for the offering of butter and cheese necessary for her worship.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim asks for Dana's help making food from scratch so that he can bring it to his girlfriend Stephanie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po had already earned some respect from the Furious Five for being an indefatigable {{Determinator}}, but it was the great meal he whipped up for them that night that really broke the ice. Interestingly enough, Tigress, who has the most ShipTease with Po, refused to eat his food and instead stoically ate her tofu. She didn't warm up to him until the end of the first movie.

** James explicitly talks about the good feelings that good cooking brings.

* Combined with the FlorenceNightingaleEffect in ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}''. Mirabel's father is ''extremely'' accident-prone, while her mother heals people though her food. Needless to say, they saw a ''lot'' of each other.

* In Franchise/{{Superman}} story arc ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', ComicBook/LoisLane decides to "get" Clark Kent by cooking his favorite dinner.

* In the backstory for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Link initially stays silent when interacting with Zelda. Only when she starts cooking him meals does he finally open up about his hopes and fears (all offscreen, though).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', when Shrek and Fiona are falling in love, Shrek impresses Fiona with his rotisserie style weed rats, extending an open invitation to his swamp for him to cook more for her, leading to an AlmostKiss that is interrupted by Donkey.

* ''Manga/GirlFriends'': After realizing that Akko is trapped in an unhealthy pattern of eating out a lot and ferociously dieting to make up for it, Mari starts making bentos for her.

* Siesta resorts to this tactic in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' at times to try to win Saito.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''. As Kaname is a {{Tsundere}} she naturally fulfills this trope. She's shown to have prepared a special meal for Sousuke on several occasions, either as reconciliation after losing her temper, or as ShipTease promptly followed by Sousuke doing something to make Kaname lose her temper.

* In ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', Misaki makes a lunch for Jin in episode 13, although writing "I love you" in it turns him off. This gives Mashiro the idea to learn cooking from Sorata.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Played with. Sheryl's first progress with Akira after falling for him, with him having been extremely cold to her thanks to his SugarAndIcePersonality, is when she sets up a hot sandwich stand and feeds him, with Akira suddenly becoming warm and filled with praise for her, as much for it being a {{Snacksploitation}} scheme, which actually sets up the theme in their interactions [[GuileHero of her cunning]] being what impresses him. This scene also starts a RunningGag with good food being TheParanoiac Akira’s MundaneLuxury weakness that makes him let his guard down out of happiness, which eventually prompts his EccentricMentor Kibayashi to warn him about TamperingWithFoodAndDrink.

* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', Shana and Kazumi begin competing over Yuji by each bringing him lunch. Kazumi can cook, while Shana... let's just say Yuji's mother was overwhelmed trying to teach her. So Shana just gives Yuji a box of [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Melon Bread]] in a curious inversion of YourFavorite.

* Shirayuki from ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'' likes to cook for her brother to show her [[BigBrotherAttraction sisterly affection]]. In the first anime series, she starts out as somewhat of a LethalChef, but she quickly becomes a top-notch cook.
* [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Sylphiel]] in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' was quite happy to hear "Gourry dear" really likes her cooking. Gourry being an IdiotHero, he still [[ObliviousToLove failed to notice]] her obvious advances, though.

* Nicely done in ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', in which Shuurei's cooking wins Ryuuki's heart twice over. In the backstory of the series, Shouka shared the food Shuurei cooked for him with Ryuuki whenever Ryuuki visited the Archives, effectively becoming Ryuuki's ParentalSubstitute since he was neglected and abused by the rest of his family. Later, when Ryuuki and Shuurei first meet in person, she shares her tea and sweet bean buns with him; he recognizes her cooking, and falls in love with her in very short order.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Before attempting to get her crush, the notoriously-solo player Kirito, to join her party, Asuna cooks him a meal with an S-class ingredient. Sure enough, he is exploring the latest dungeon with her, and only her, and Klein even congratulates him for being "ensnared by feminine wiles". Later volumes continue this trend with him loving every food she makes for him.

* Taiga from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' is at her most content when she eats good food. Her classmate and neighbor Ryuuji is an excellent cook. [[ForegoneConclusion Do the math]].

* In ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', Tatsuya often buys Miyuki chocolate cake before he tells her bad news [[spoiler:and she makes him a cake for Valentine's Day]]. In contrast, Mayumi's prank gift of bitter chocolates does not go over well -- Tatsuya doesn't take it in the lighthearted spirit she hoped he would.

* ''Series/TedLasso'': In the episode "Biscuits", Ted invokes a more platonic version of this trope with "Biscuits with the Boss", a new tradition where he takes a box of shortbread biscuits to his new boss Rebecca every morning so they can get to know each other better. [[DefrostingIceQueen Rebecca]] initially tries to refuse the biscuits, but then she tries one and is shocked by how delicious they are. She later has [[BeleaguredAssistant Higgins]] search every bakery in the area to find out where Ted got the biscuits, but it's revealed at the end of the episode that Ted makes them himself. "Biscuits with the Boss" continues throughout the series, and Rebecca becomes more openly appreciative of them as she warms up to Ted.

* In ''Manga/BattleRoyale'', Noriko bakes cookies to give to Shuya, whom she has a ''huge'' crush on. Unfortunately for her, it didn't have the effect she really wanted, since Yoshi (who had a ''huge'' crush on Noriko) ended up taking the cookies and eating them.

** The first episode of the fourth season "The Way of the Warrior" begins with Captain Sisko welcoming his girlfriend Kasidy Yates back to the station with a gift and an extensive romantic dinner that is, unfortunately, interrupted very quickly.

--->'''Sisko:''' No-one touches my peppers.
* Played for horror in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' with the Leviathans' plans: [[spoiler: Levi!Dick Roman takes over several food conglomerates and states that he's going to reform how they produce in order to make food tastier and healthier. He is in fact pumping the food with drugs that make whoever eats it fat, lazy, and stupid so that they can't fight back when the [[ImAHumanitarian Leviathans turn America into their own personal long pork farm]]]].

** Okazaki enjoys Ichika's baking, doubly so since [[LethalChef he doesn't know how to cook]], let alone prepare tea.

** A weird variation where Sasazuka offers food to people he likes despite vocally claiming they are annoyances to him. It's most noticeable in his route where he offers donuts, chocolates and appetizers to Ichika whether to praise her for doing a good job or a means to cheer her up.