*received for free from netgalley for honest review* The first book in this series was cute, this one is even cuter! i wouldnt mind owning hard copies of these!

Unfortunately I did not enjoy this graphic novel as much as I thought I would. The main thing that ruined this book for me was the font. It was so small and the parts that were in cursive were almost impossible to read. The font was already so difficult to read and it didn't make it easier that there was just so much of it. I ended up skimming through parts of this book because there was so much reading with the illegible font. The recipes in the book were a bit more on the fancier end with fancier ingredients that I wouldn't normally buy so there were probably only around 5 recipes I would like to try. There was quite a bit of dry humour throughout the book though which made reading it not such a pain. Also this made me crave oysters like no other LOL. I also liked the bit at the end that suggests great kitchen gadgets to own if you're a foodie. Overall this book just wasn't my thing but if you like cooking and have a great set of eyeballs then you'll probably enjoy it more than I did :) I would rate this a 2.5/5.

I am a cookbooks junkie, and I want to read more graphic novel. When I saw this book, I thought it was perfect. Well.... It wasn't for me. I loved the humour, loved the stories, but reading recipes that I don't want to try just turned me off. It took me forever to read, and maybe it was because I read it digitally, but some of the font used it very difficult to read. I was always zooming on my iPad or having my head too close of the screen to be able to understand something... It felt wrong. Like I said, it wasn't for me, but if you like good humour, great recipes and graphic novels, you'll probably love this one.

Many thanks to the publisher for the complimentary e-copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

This is such a unique, fun cookbook. I love the style and the recipes are easy to follow. I would highly recommend this and intend to purchase it for a family member who I know will love this.

'To Drink and to Eat Vol. 2: More Meals and Mischief from a French Kitchen' by Guillaume Long with translation by Sylvia Grove is the second graphic novel in the series of food blog comics.

Like the first volume, this one is divided by season.  A running bit includes a vegetable subscription that the author subscribes to and the recipe inspirations.  The other is about how to make spaghetti carbonara the right way (and not get the carbonara police after you).  There are longer pieces like a radio interview the author did.  The book ends with a list of gift ideas for foodies and an index of the recipes.

I loved the first volume, but didn't love this one quite as much.  It is still a really interesting idea and pretty funny.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Oni Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

I would like to thank NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this ebook.

I did not read the first volume, but this could be read on its own. While I really liked the illustrations and the overall 'colorfulness' of it, some of the pages were very cramped making the dialogues very hard to read. I love French humor and so I enjoyed this book very much.

DNF, skimmed the end. Granted I haven’t read the first volume of this book, but with how uninterested I was, I don’t think I’m going to go back and see if that makes a difference. The panel layouts were monotonous, the text was uninteresting, and while there was some charm in the recipes, I just felt so bored the whole read.

Thank you to the author, Oni Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love cookbooks, and I also really enjoy graphic novels. However, this mashup of the two was not for me. I did not enjoy the middle-aged male author's sense of self-importance or sense of humor, nor did I find the recipes particularly well-done. I loved the cover illustration, which is what prompted me to request the ARC, but unfortunately the book did not live up to my expectations.

I love food and I love graphic novels so this one seemed like a no brainer for me to pick up.  I read the first volume about a month ago, and recently read the newest volume courtesy of an ARC provided by the publisher.    Like the first volume, this one is filled with lots of short 1-2 comics about the author's personal experiences with foods.  There are comics focused on particular recipes and others focused more broadly, but all related to food in some way.   Some of the bits in this were more interesting to me than others and as is often the case with food-related reads, the book triggered some cravings.     Some of the comics in the collection didn't quite hit the mark for me and were just "kind of okay".   

I will keep my eye out for additional works by Long.

To Drink and to Eat is all about how to cook food and how to improve one's culinary skills in a light-hearted way. The graphics in a few pages felt too busy. A physical copy of the book would have made it easier to read the small font. To Drink and to Eat is a good book to gift for food and graphic novel lovers.

I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

To Eat and To Drink features a collection of stories and a collection of recipes in graphic novel form.  As I already follow one comic/recipes author that I love, I was excited to discover another one!  However, this book just did not live up to expectations for me.  I don't share the author's sense of humor, and to me, some of the recipes were not well explained.  This will have a market; it just wasn't for me.  My favorite part was the list at the end of a gift guide for foodies; there were many good suggestions!

Many thanks to the author, publishers and Netgalley for a free ARC of this ebook.
I loved this unusual cookery book. Its fun, different and well worth a read. It's a cartoon illustrated work of genius. The author has  gone to such lengths to inform, illustrate and entertain. The translation is great too. I highly recommend it. 5 stars!

I love how this book started off with a comic and adore the illustrations throughout! The stories, humor, and illustrations were my favorite part about the book! I’m not entirely sure if I’d try or would be interested in trying every recipe, but I can already see myself cooking more French food. I’ve always found French food sophisticated and wrongly assumed that I wouldn’t ever have the right ingredients but Guillaume really guides the reader through. Overall, pretty good!

*Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with a complimentary eARC for review purposes*

This book had a good balance of recipes and anecdotes, I really enjoyed the illustrations and the definitions sections.

This was a clever, mischievous, and fun book.  It is a truly a book of comics about cooking, with recipes.  I enjoyed the stories in between the recipes and the different categorization of the recipes.  It's definitely different, but would be a great gift for the chef who has everything.

To Drink and to Eat, Vol. 2 by Guillaume Long is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in late November.

Seasonal, cooking-related vignettes and comic strips about the author/illustrator, Guillaume and his experiences tasting cuisine from all around the world; often, he comes to terms with the weirdness of a food or why some people are so particular about it. Laden with lots and lots of puns and odd uncle humor, I especially love when he describes the sound an ingredient makes when it lands in a mixing bowl or a hot pan.

When is the last time a cookbook made you laugh out loud? Never? I thought so. Well, I guarantee that after you read Pépé Roni’s advice on the mandolin, you’ll be smiling! To Drink and to Eat Vol. 2 is an outrageous, fantastic and offbeat series of cartoons, comics and drawings. It’s also a really good cookbook.

The recipes are organized creatively by seasons. They are interspersed with illustrated stories about trips, restaurant visits, local foods and advice. Delightful drawings tell of a visit to Stockholm and a yearning for Burger King after days of healthy Swedish meals. Responses to parents’ clichéd requests to eat everything on your plate are given as are directions on how to make beer. A key tells the cook what level of expertise is needed for each dish. There’s even a kitchen gift guide. It’s not your ordinary cookbook but the recipes are well written and you will laugh! 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Oni Press and Guillaume Long for this ARC.

What a fun genre mashup, part cookbook, part comic collection, this book is perfect for anyone who loves a good chuckle while they whip up an easy and delicious recipe. The illustrations make finding ingredients easy and the directions are very clear. This book makes cooking fun even for those who turn away from it and prefer take out.

When I request a book from NetGalley, I have high hopes that I will enjoy it. I have loved graphic novels that are cookbooks or food centric memoirs. I think communicating about food lends itself to illustration. Cartoonist Guillaume Long writes a culinary comic for Le Monde, “To Drink and To Eat.” While I wasn’t familiar with him, he is apparently well loved.

Unfortunately, Long got on the wrong foot with me by writing a jokey little story with recipe about Paul Gauguin moving to Tahiti because of peas and carrots. I realize the term pedophile gets thrown around a lot, but Paul Gauguin did actually sleep with, marry, and father children with young teenage girls. A one page recipe about peas and carrots with bacon did not need to include Paul Gauguin, or imply that adult women found him sexy. But Long chose to do that for whatever reason.

Even if Long hadn’t sprung an unnecessary Gauguin on me, his storytelling still wouldn’t have been my style. He makes fun of his African American friend’s Southern accent (she’s probably fine with it, I was annoyed). The whole joke about using spaghetti carbonara to pick up “dames” felt tiresome. He’s a middle aged white man from France who hasn’t been asked to interrogate his world view. A lot of people are fine with that and will be fine with To Eat and To Drink, Volume 2.

As for the recipes, they are pretty decent. Some of the ingredients are going to be a challenge for American kitchens. I thought his mother’s Danish style smoked salmon recipe looked good. The pickled cherries is definitely something I would try, my caveat being that in a more southern climate, you are going to want to keep your pickled cherries in the fridge, or go through a sterile canning process. It may have been the PDF format of the arc I was viewing, but sometimes the artwork and lettering made it hard to follow the recipe. I wouldn’t recommend this as an ebook.

Some people will enjoy this. It wasn’t for me. Thank you to NetGalley for giving me an arc in exchange for an honest review.

Humour and recipes mixed into a graphic novel setting.  A light read more than a recipe book.  Good for lovers of food, cooking, Parisian cafes and Sweden!