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Chef Rutabaga's portable kitchen; his anthropomorphic sidekick, Pot; and his love of foraging for unique ingredients (e.g., "sweetened blood berries" and "pop-shrooms") may encourage readers to be more adventurous with their own culinary pursuits. The quirky series-starting graphic novel includes easy-to-make recipes and uses comic vignettes to concisely introduce such entertaining characters as sword-slinging Winn and her comrades, Manny and Beef.