Learn to cook a range of brutally tasty yet simple plant-based dishes, accompanied by heavy metal and punk lyrics, art, and ethos. This vegan cookbook is jam packed with recipes for stews, soups, sauces, noodle & bean dishes, baked entrees, and desserts, interspersed with illustrations of adorable armed animals, meditations on suicide, a crossword puzzle, and instructions for DIY tattoo guns. Expand your cooking repertoire with recipes from around the world, including Grizzly Bear Gnocchi, Taco Thrash-erole, Misery Wot, Gotterdamerung Dopple-Chocolate Cookies, and Hair of an Angel Knotted by the Persistance of a Mortal. Each recipe is paired with a metal song to listen to while you cook. Based on a series of long-obscure 1990s zines, this underground classic is now in its third edition, bringing you practical, animal-free cooking skills that will soothe your justified despair at the bloodthirstiness and futility of human nature.
In the middle of the cookbook is an anecdote about when the author saw a women’s corpse and it’s so visceral to me that the whiplash of a recipe under it is like bro, you’re not okay (undeniably at writing, bro was not okay). (it says so in the prologue that bro was not okay)
there’s a dream the author has of dying in a bear attack. I thought it was an anecdote from a real suvivor’s experience but it was just a horrible nightmare.
I remember these levels of depression.
The cookbook is a real zine. There’s quotes. Pictures. Friend’s recipes. Anecdotes. An interview with a band. Instructions on assembling a homemade tattoo machine.
It’s rich with what I need— easy veggie-rich recipes. And what I wasn’t expecting: inspiration. Introspection. A third thing to round out the list of “i” words.
I didn’t think I would have to put trigger warnings on a cookbook but here we are.
