Like a Chef: A Culinary Autobiography (French Edition) by Benoît Peeters & Aurélia Aurita

Like a Chef: A Culinary Autobiography, signed Benoît Peeters and illustrated by Aurélia Aurita, is a graphic novel unique that combines gastronomic passion and life story with subtlety.

Between 18 and 25 years old, the cooking occupies a central place in the author's life. It all begins with a gustatory revelation during a meal at the Troisgros Brothers', in Roanne, then a temple of high French gastronomy. From this foundational experience, a vocation is born: Benoît Peeters decides to learn the self-taught cooking, with rigor and fascination.

As he gives up preparing for the competition for Normale Sup, his parents cut off his financial support. Left to his own devices, he embarks on the adventure like private chef. Between food service jobs, writing articles, and demanding culinary experiments, he discovers the difficulty of turning his passion into a profession.

This graphic novel captivatingly highlights the tension between thegourmet idealism and the the harshness of reality. Through recipes, anecdotes, and life episodes, Peeters immerses us in an era, a youth, a zest for life… and to cook.

The delicate and expressive drawing ofAurélia Aurita gives a sensory dimension to this intimate quest. The textures, flavors, and gestures in the kitchen come to life, making the culinary experience palpable.

Like a chef is much more than a testimony: it is an ode to the culinary creation, at the freedom to invent one's path, and to the wealth of side roads.

📌 Item features

• Type of work : Graphic novel

• Author : Benoît Peeters

• Illustrator : Aurélia Aurita

• Editor : Casterman

• Collection : Graphic novels

• Language : French

• Publication date January 17, 2018

• Format : Paperback

• Number of pages : 216

• Dimensions : 23.9 x 17.1 x 2 cm

• Weight : 648 g

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• ISBN : 978-2-203-14675-4