film and tv where people seem to unlock a pure humanity via food

I thought Addicted to Curry was gonna be another cooking-themed shonen fightmanga a la Yakitate Japan and that literal-food-porn anime that’s popular right now, but it turned out to be a more lighthearted take on the Bartender formula but with curry in place of the alcohol, right down to the interspersed-with-actual-recipes part

it’s a manga though, not a film or tv, so