"A unique, informative, and inherently fascinating graphic novel."-- James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review "Dense, well-cited information made palatable by fun images and quick jokes."-- Jeff Provine, BlogCritics "A simply delightful dish: an inviting comics divertissement that absolutely whets the appetite for more." -- Win Wiacek, Now Read This! "Simmat and Douay make us stop and think about the plates routinely placed before us, reminding us of the long journeys undertaken by our common ancestors, and what they had to do to take what the Earth provided and make it palatable." -- Lindsay Pereira, Broken Frontier "The book is both informative.and funny."-- Meg S, The Fiction Addiction "Through the development of food preparation, Douay and Simmat take us into the history of cooking.
While such a momentous undertaking may seem impossible, the creators give the reader a good overview of how we have come to develop our collective culinary skills."-- Cord Scott, International Journal of Comic Art "Both entertaining and informative."-- Andrew Wheeler, The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. "Fascinating early history of food and cooking." -- Patti Martinson, Sequential Tart "Fascinating!" Europe 1, a major French radio station.
"Readers will find endless (often comical) 'Did you know?' tidbits to inspire conversations, some of which might not be polite dinner talk." -- Terry Hong, Booklist "The history of cooking is a fascinating topic, and the graphic novel format is well suited to such a subject." -- No Flying No Tights blog "Reading this book is like eating peanuts, in that once you start you'll find it hard to stop." -- Sarah Boslaugh, The Arts STL.