This is a quick enjoyable read, and a type of graphic novel I haven't tried before - one that's a cookbook as much as it is cartoons. Blain spends time in Passard's kitchen, watching food being prepared, but he also spends extensive time with the gardeners who supply the produce used in those kitchens. And when I say produce, I mean mostly beets. Alright, that's an exaggeration, but Passard does love his beets... though I can't say that I blame him, because I love them too. Beets are yummy. I do like the emphasis on vegetables here, and the simplicity of the culinary approach. It's always a limited number of ingredients, treated respectfully, nothing overwrought. 

I do miss photography, though. If there's one thing most modern cookbooks are very good at, it's that gorgeous imagery, and given how much emphasis Passard gives to colour in his food, I would have liked a better look at it, I think.