Odd Planet has a highly amusing short list of weird cookbooks. My favorite, obviously, is the Poison Cook Book.
System: General Silliness
Odd Cookbooks
Food News - November 7th
We've known for bazillions of years that wine is subjective, but it's interesting to learn that white chocolate goes well with caviar, that Slim Jims are made of mechanically separated chicken, that there's a drink made of bird's nest, or that you can eat fish poop. I feel a bit patriotic about my regional specialty, but then again, that's pretty normal, in a world where disgusting vegetarian clones of the already amorphous chicken nugget is sold outside of the endless army of chicken restaurants that all want to look the same. It can be cheaper to make your own breakfast foods, not to mention healthier in a day and age where butter flavoring gets abused and trans fats take all the blame.
We're Back...
baby.
Asia4Dinner: [Cooking Motions]
[door opening]
[object retrieval]
[door closing]
[pouring motion]
[skillet flipping motion]
[dial motion]
[stirring motion]
[pouring on plate motion]
[rubbing stomach motion]
Where The Heck Is Savory?
After he annoyed me for hours with the whole Asia4Dinner night, he's been bothering me about our upcoming Greek night. But he hasn't yet posted about his stir-fry.
I mean, he probably has a "Send 'Greek Night!' to ViRaLeLiXiR" script installed on his box, or else he's just prodding me like a ritalin-deprived child with a stick, but geez.
Where is he? Probably at this adult cake store. Seriously. I heard him mumbling something about hot buttercream the other night. Or thought that's what he said after his "special" mushroom pizza.
Dear Savory: Post.
Night Of Tastastic Pants!
Hey all, SM Here. Just wanted to welcome our new editor to the madness, and tell everyone that in favor of New Years, we at EU are doing a day of random cookery. I'm bringing my skills, Tele and Q o' T are bringing theirs, and it will be a "rockin" good time. Since I dont have an easy notepad o' webness that can go where-ever I can, I am going to scribble recipes I'm planning to cook on here. So prepare yourselves for a week of recipes that will eventually rule the planet!
Make me a sammich!
Cooking With Trek : The Motion Picture
Hello citizens! CaptainCrumb here with a special treat from the delicious(?) future. That's right, in my hands is a copy of the Official 1978 Star Trek Cooking Manual. Let me explain something: I can't really cook. I could really use a food replicator, so that idealized future seems tantalizing indeed. Unfortunately, this book only covers manual food assembly techniques. I guess that will have to do.
As far as I know, there have been 3 Star Trek cook books attempted. This was the first of them so it seems like a good place to start. The second one was never actually published, so we'll be skipping it for obvious reasons. I'll also probably look into the new Star Trek Cookbook
I don't have any plans for trying to cook something tonight, so we'll have to start with something a little different. This is an old book - it was published a year before I was born. One of the really cool things about it that really shows its age is that it includes a Fortran IV program source listing. That's right - I said IV, not even Fortran 66. Just for the hell of it, I decided to convert it over to ruby, a much more modern language. Be warned, it's still just a conversion of a fortran program so it looks like utter crap.
And now again, in ruby:
fmt007 = ' ' * 2 + "n" * 3 + ' ' * 5 + '%2c' * 20 fmt73 = ' ' * 2 + "n" * 3 + ' ' * 5 + '%2c' * 7 + '%12.6f' pad = Array.new(20).fill(20)
puts fmt007 % [ food[1], waffl[3], dish[2], food[12], dish[3], fryer[2], waffl[13], *pad ]
baked = 5 recip = 71.0 / 113 recip *= baked
puts fmt73 % [ waffl[13], food[3], dish[10], waffl[13], waffl[3],
pan[6], waffl[4], recip ]
puts fmt007 % [ dish[2], pan[5], waffl[6], food[10], fryer[7],
waffl[2], dish[10], fryer[4], food[5], waffl[11],
dish[1], pan[8], *pad ]
puts fmt007 % [ pan[7], waffl[1], pan[14], dish[15], fryer[6],
food[3], waffl[9], fryer[8], pan[1], dish[4],
waffl[12], *pad ]
May the gods of agile programming spare my tarnished soul. Notice the extra spaces so that we can still use 1-based arrays, fortran style. The *pad is another necessary hack since ruby's C-style sprintf code doesn't like getting too few parameters (oddly enough, it doesn't complain about getting too many).
Next post, I'll actually attempt to cook one of the recipes - the necessary ingredients have already been acquired. Till then...
On Scrubbing Random Vegetables
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Food Mime On Things That Do Not Go Well Fried In Bacon Grease
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A Technorati Description
(10:03:38) 26350698: i updated again this morning
(10:04:23) synikal: woot
(10:18:34) synikal: give me a description of the blog for technorati, darnit
(10:18:59) 26350698: um
(10:19:09) 26350698: TRANSCENDING THE TYPICAL RECIPE FORMULA!
(10:19:20) synikal: heh
(10:19:23) 26350698: INTERPLANETARY GASTRONOMY FOR THE UP AND COMING HOBO!
(10:19:51) 26350698: THE MATHEMATICS OF FOOD! SANITY AS RELATES TO PASTA AND WINE! FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!
(10:19:54) 26350698: ...that should do it.
(10:21:45) 26350698: THE PIZZA OF BEATIFIC JOY! UNFATHOMABLE DELIGHT IN A GUTTER KITCHEN! A HOMESTYLE BREAD-AND-METH LAB!
(10:21:49) 26350698: i can do this all day.
(10:23:22) 26350698: HERB RUSH KEKEKEKEKEKE
(10:23:43) synikal: hehe, I got it
(10:23:44) synikal: lol
(10:23:55) 26350698: we're on technorati now?
(10:24:08) synikal: yup
(10:24:22) 26350698: IM IN UR KITCHEN COOKING UR F00DZ
(10:24:38) 26350698: ALL YOUR SAUCE AM BELONG!