Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook: Rock Your Kitchen--And Let the Boys Clean Up the Mess [Paperback]

Nadia Giosia (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2008

Watch Nadia G’s deliciously demented program, Bitchin’ Kitchen, on the US’s Cooking Channel and on Canada's Food Network. Hilarious, informative, delicious, and just a little bit naughty, The Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook is a guide for the next generation of lifestyle aficionados. Screw stuffing the turkey! Nadia G offers recipes for real-life scenarios: What do you make for breakfast after a one-night stand? What do you serve up to say you're sorry for the PMS rampage? Need to impress the in-laws? Well, Lord knows you may never be good enough, but at least the meal will be!

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From the Back Cover

Hilarious, informative, and deliciously demented, the Bitchin’ Kitchen Cookbook is the guide for a new generation of foodies and lifestyle aficionados. From One-Night-Stand Breakfasts to Dump ‘Em Desserts, twisted mastermind and chef-comedienne Nadia G offers sixty succulent recipes, twenty Technicolor themes, and more madness than you can shake a prosciutto at (because we all need to shake a prosciutto at madness sometimes). Bitchin’ Kitchen isn’t your mom’s cookbook . . . um, unless your mom likes Bitchin’ Kitchen.

About the Author

Nadia G is the creator of www.BitchinKitchen.TV, the hit web and mobile cooking show that won the first annual WAVE Award for Favorite Mobile Comedy Series, beating out Conan O’Brien’s mobile series. So there.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: skirt!; 1st edition (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599214415
• ISBN-13: 978-1599214412
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars But wait, I can't afford an impulse buy..., February 27, 2009

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Brian Connors (Yarmouth, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook: Rock Your Kitchen--And Let the Boys Clean Up the Mess (Paperback)

Eh, shaddap. I grabbed it right off the shelf just because the cover was so thoroughly insane. So was the book. Not having seen any of the show, I watched a few. Great stuff.

I've complained in the past that there's a lack of culinary humor out there. Nadia Giosia has done a remarkably fun (and borderline lunatic) job of helping to remedy that with her over-the-top screen presence and her tasty and creative recipes, and this book, a loud, often-hilarious menu cookbook that includes transcripts of the dialogue from the show along with frequent cheesecake shots of Nadia and three of her four male cast members, captures the spirit of the TV show perfectly, then goes it one better by concentrating the insanity into wall-to-wall photo collages loaded with food porn, costumes, and sight gags. The food is heavily Italian-accented, but well-chosen for each episode theme, with a strong New American (New Canadian?) accent.

If I have any complaints with it, it's that Nadia sometimes overplays her guidette character, using slang that I can only assume is rather more common in Canada than it is here in the US. That, and Hans... ick. Just too much 'bag in that character. (But hey, maybe the female and/or gay readers appreciate him more than I would.) But the food is excellent and the writing is fun and off-the-wall. Grab it, and use it to follow along with the show.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bitchin' Kitchin', November 1, 2010

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This review is from: Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook: Rock Your Kitchen--And Let the Boys Clean Up the Mess (Paperback)

I just discovered Nadia and her show on the Cooking Channel. Apparently, from reading the book, she has been around for a while on the internet but I THINK the show is new.

She is very funny and entertaining. An "Edgy" food show if there is such a thing, the Punk Rock version of a cooking show. Like Anthony Bourdain if he were a smokin hot italian chic but happier and with a better sense of humor.

If you like cooking shows with humor whether you would consider actually making the dishes or not, you will like the show. The book is filled with a lot of humor as well as recipes at least some of which I would actually try and make.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A highly prized and recommended addition to personal cookbook collections, March 10, 2009

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This review is from: Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook: Rock Your Kitchen--And Let the Boys Clean Up the Mess (Paperback)

Nadia G is the creator of a hit, hip, an award winning web and mobile cooking show and the source of the recipes she has gathered together to create "Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook". Colorfully and provocatively illustrated throughout, Nadia G laces humor with her recipe instructions for 'kitchen cook friendly' dishes ranging from such exotic items as Chile raspberry Parfait, to mouth watering fare as a Chicken & Banana Curry, to such personal favorites as her Pot Au Chocolate. There's even such unexpected and unique dishes as Parsnip Chips with Sour Cream & Green Onion Dip (ideal for party time) and depression fighting fare like her Splitsville Salad with Caramelized Figs. Unique, unusual, and culinary cutting edge, "Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook" is a highly prized and recommended addition to personal cookbook collections.