IN THE KITCHEN WITH ALAIN PASSARD
IN THE KITCHEN WITH ALAIN PASSARD
Available in English for the very first time, In the Kitchen with Alain Passard is the first graphic novel to enter the kitchen of a master chef. Over the course of three years, illustrator Christophe Blain trailed acclaimed chef Alain Passard through his kitchens and gardens. With simple yet sublime drawings and thousands of colorful panels, this book gives the reader an inside, uncensored look at the world of Passard, who shocked the food universe in 2001 by removing meat from the menu at his celebrated Paris restaurant, L’Arpege, and dedicating himself to serving vegetables from his own organic farms. This irresistible hardcover combines a portrait of an amazing chef, an inside look at his creative process, and a humorous riff on fine dining culture—plus fifteen recipes for the home kitchen—in one haute cuisine comic book for foodies!
Christophe Blain is the award-winning creator and illustrator of several successful French graphic novel series. He lives in Paris.
MEDIA REVIEWS
“ I was not prepared to be quite so smitten with it as I was.”
—Clotilde Dusoulier, Chocolate & Zucchini
“ [Passard is] . . . one of the ‘last generation’ of great French chefs, those who were trained in the craft from early adolescence, and have never done anything else, and who exhibit a seemingly instinctive (though in fact dearly won) skill that still leaves the chefs of every other country in wonder.”
—The New Yorker
