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"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
Expand Edited by lincoln Aug. 7, 2011, 01:43:21 PM EDT
New Those are out of order
Shouldn't the Natural Harvest Cookbook be right after the Meat Stretcher Cookbook?
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Drew
New They don't seem all that strange to me . . .
. . but the only one I know I own is the "White Trash Cooking". I might have "What Would Jesus Eat", but I think the one I have is similar but with a different title.

I see the "Road Kill Cookbook" on eBay now and then but have never bought it because we just don't have cookable road kill here in Los Angeles (except people - and you're not allowed to eat those). Any other animals would be squished into a red stain within minutes around here.

Insects are quite under discussion by food experts these days, particularly grasshoppers and the like, as an excellent and palatable protein source. Though I have had fried ants, I haven't yet tried the silkworm pupae I see in the frozen food cases at the Asian markets - and we just don't have grasshoppers around here - last one I saw was at least 10 years ago.

There's nothing at all strange (just pitiful) about a "Microwave for One" cookbook, and certainly nothing strange about a "Meat Stretcher Cookbook" (see also "Depression Era Recipes") - but nothing could be as pitiful as a "Star Trek Cookbook".

I've seen the "Testicle Cookbook", but I don't need it, I already have plenty of recipes for those. The "Kill It and Grill" It cookbook is common on eBay right now, but I don't do a lot of grilling and I figure the hunting sort aren't into very interesting recipes.

"Manifold Destiny" has been around for a long time, but I don't have a car with big enough pipes or a hot enough engine - and I don't see anything strange whatever about a "Dutch Oven Cookbook" - unless there's someone too inexperienced to know what a Dutch Oven is (no it's not something tended by the Gestapo).

Food to remember is just another one of 27,000 comb bound fund raising recipe books, but "Cooking with Poo" might be interesting.

"Holocost Survivor Cookbook" is not competitive with the one publishing recipes of those who didn't survive (mostly from Theresienstadt(Terezín)). There is also a CD of music composed in the Theresienstadt camp, by excellent composers none of whom survived.

I would not recommend "The Iguana Cookbook" because Iguanas have been seriously over-harvested. As for the two vampire cookbooks, I have plenty of recipes calling for blood, and I own "Transylvania Cuisine", a very fine work indeed.

Now semaen-based recipes, that is pretty strange. I've never heard about that being eaten except plain, fresh and raw.

But none of these are competitive with one I just bought. "I Like You", subtitled "hospitality under the influence". That subtitle is suboptimal - more properly it should be "cookbook writing under the influence". Veeeery strange indeed, but quite entertaining. Very few cookbooks instruct you how to determine what drugs your guests are on or how to keep your vagina clean and good tasting.
New I may have seen "Manifold Destiny" years ago.
I've cooked marinated chicken in aluminum foil on the manifold of a small block 8 over a 4-6 hour trip a number of times (a long time ago... it's been 10 years since I've had a v-6 much less an 8.) I didn't have a meat thermometer in those days either; I just stuck it with a knife and if the meat was firm and the juice was clear, it was cooked. Eh... I lived.
New What's not clear from the cover ...
While The Testicle Cookbook is clearly about the balls of other species, Natural Harvest is most definitely about the human kind. I saw an article about it when it came out, so to speak.
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Drew
     25 very strange cookbooks - (lincoln) - (4)
         Those are out of order - (drook)
         They don't seem all that strange to me . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
             I may have seen "Manifold Destiny" years ago. - (hnick)
             What's not clear from the cover ... - (drook)

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