{"id":6276,"date":"2026-10-04T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=book&p=6276"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:58:21","slug":"please-dont-feed-the-bears-a-heavy-metal-vegan-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/book\/please-dont-feed-the-bears-a-heavy-metal-vegan-cookbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Don’t Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember these levels of depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s rich with what I need\u2014 easy veggie-rich recipes. And what I wasn’t expecting: inspiration. Introspection. A third thing to round out the list of “i” words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t think I would have to put trigger warnings on a cookbook but here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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