Sweet, salty, bitter, acid, but also the “umami” Japanese and other surprises to discover the page after page in this youth book. A treat.
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Which parent has not already found, halfway between the bakery and the house, with a nibbed bread baguette, halved by a small gourmet mouth? The pleasure of hot bread is irreplaceable. And as the Chief Olivier Roellinger tells in the preface of this book, in terms of food, “everything starts with pleasure”: “breathe, humer, chew, swallow, swallow.”
That’s why the little bear who croves in his fresh bread on the next page has every sense awake. Meaning it will be a lot about this big album, with unusual and bold associations.
in unknown earth
Each double page takes the party from gathering food according to their flavor. First of all, there is the sweet, of course: alongside the candies trand a sweet potato, a beet and ketchup. We stay in the classic with salty, bitter and acid, but it is then that we venture in unknown earth. Children are invited to discover the UMAMI, the “fifth flavor” Japanese so difficult to define in words. It is easier with examples: there are soy sauce, dried anchovies, parmesan or seaweed broth.
Then come the spicy tastes, fat (donuts, fondue and salmon: special indigestion!), Fried and roasted, smoked, fresh (cucumber, milk and mint with water) … but also pages that will necessarily scream the intolerant noses of under 18 years old: the taste “it stinks” (pungent, in English, because all the work is bilingual), with the delicious and fragrant Tropical Durian, the taste ” Disgusting “: oysters, brains and molds of Roquefort … and another, perfectly subjective, where everyone can do the inventory of his memories: the” taste of childhood “. A treat that this large format album, with more than one super brand-page in the form of crisp baguette.