Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 1

by Eric Colossal

Overview

In a world where there are dragons, wyverns, and haunted squash, you'd figure someone would have recipes for them, right? Rutabaga and his magic cooking pot, Pot, join young adventurers Winnifred, Manny, and Beef on a quest to defeat a dragon, discover new ingredients, find monsters to have for and/or to dinner, and to save the day through cooking. Rutabaga will dare any danger to uncover new tastes, and there's a whole world full of food to try—from roasted mud leech to spider soup to peanut butter on crackers. His heroic recipes combine real ingredients, fantasy ingredients, and real ingredients that sound fantastical. Rutabaga the Adventure Chef is the perfect adventure for any kid grossed out when something weird shows up on the dinner table.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613128855
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	03/31/2015
Series:	Rutabaga the Adventure Chef , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	27 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Eric Colossal graduated from the School of Visual Arts. During the day he works at a video game company, with credits including Guitar Hero and Spider-Man 3. At night and on weekends he works on comics, cartoons, and indie games. He lives in Troy, New York.

Editorial Reviews

"Rutabaga’s culinary feats in the comic...could easily inspire young adventure chefs to make some gourmet grub of their own."

Booklist - Sarah Hunter

2014-12-06
In a land with dragons and other monsters, a happy-go-lucky chef can also be a hero. Rutabaga is a chef on a journey to find the rarest, tastiest ingredients to use in his cooking. He's a foodie Indiana Jones for the junior set: When he finds a legendary sword, he wants only the mushrooms growing on it, happily surrendering the sword itself to the next person who arrives. Though Rutabaga isn't a warrior or wizard, his culinary expertise often comes in handy; for example, he's able to deduce what food might nourish an ailing royal pet. Colossal's full-color, cartoonish illustrations, with their heavy linework and simple figures, match the light, goofy tone of the stories. When Rutabaga gets cooking, Colossal exploits the graphic form to break down the action into numbered steps reminiscent of real cookbooks. The slapstick humor entertains but leaves little space for genuine character development, and the characters' determinedly colloquial speech highlights the flimsiness of the faux medieval setting. Recipes scattered throughout allow kids to test their own cooking skills, at least on the ones with real-world ingredients. (Taste testers should be warned that one recipe features crushed cinnamon breath mints as an ingredient.) Colossal's debut outing is a cheerful if unexceptional popcorn read. (Graphic adventure. 8-11)

Kirkus Reviews