BOOK / IN THE KITCHEN WITH ALAIN PASSARD. Christophe Blain

GASTRONOMY

An irresistible comic book by Christophe Blain, one of the key figures in the renewal of European comics since the second half of the 1990s, which combines a description of life behind the stoves of a restaurant run by a haute cuisine chef in Paris over the course of three years with a compendium of recipes designed to delight lovers of good food.

From the encounter between a great chef and a great comic book author, only something truly delicious can emerge. In the Kitchen with Alain Passard is a brilliant demonstration in an album that straddles a drawn report and a gastronomic chronicle in pictures. Positioned in a corner of the kitchen at L'Arpège, the 3-Michelin-star restaurant run by Alain Passard in Paris, Blain observed, annotated, drew, and even tasted the daily hustle and bustle of a restaurant kitchen where creativity plays as important a role as in the work of a cartoonist.

Blain depicts everything that isn't usually seen: the division of labor, the work of the chefs, the intervention of the "master," but he also perfectly conveys the gustatory emotions born from Alain Passard's cooking. Blain's drawn report is accompanied by the chef's real recipes, but—and this is the artist's great strength—simply reading this album would almost give us the sensation of tasting them even before having tried them.

Title: En la cocina con Alain Passard
Author: Christophe Blain
Pages: 88
Size: 23 x 29 cm
Weight: 650 grams
Genre: Gastronomy
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ASTIBERRI
Year: 2011