Customer Reviews

Cooking With the Dead: Recipes and Stories from Fans on the Road [Over 65 fabulous kynd and caring vegetarian recipes prepared with love]

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"Cooking With the Dead" is full of fabulous pictures and interviews with Deadheads and some great recipes. I was kind of disappointed that there were recipes for beef kabobs and tuna melts in what I had thought would be a vegetarian cookbook, but I overlooked them. 3 Bean Veggie Chilli is a tasty dish I have enjoyed making. The Gilly Melt is quite tasty, and I am very intrigued by "Wheel-of-Creation-Vegan-Organic-No-Electricity-Sprouted-Wheat-Berry Pizza", I long for a wheat grass grinder. The Energy Nuggets are really great as are the Apple space cakes. Its a fun cookbook, and memoir of a people.

Ok, my recipe is in this book, but I have never made it from the measurements listed. It would probaly make 40 pounds of noodles anyway. On the lot I just kinda put things togther without measuring (My bus did not have room for measuring cups anyway) But this book is fun!!! Elizabeth wrote this with a lot of love. I would still be out there cooking for everyone if I could. So much love for one lifetime!!! Thanks Jerry!!!

Some of the other reviews seem to be overly influenced by kind bud and the munchies.

I found this book to be a nice collection of recipes of various offerings I saw in the lot. The stories were interesting too.

This book wasn't mind blowing, but it lives up to what it claims to be. It's worthwhile if you want to try some of the things you missed after Soldier Field.

This book is great! The only problem we had with it is the fact that most recipies are made to feed more people then live on my block....Both of the Homebrew recipies have been up-dated and improved.

i have read this book from cover to cover...many times over...there is something very aesthetically appealing about the whole process...good food, simple, easy to follow instructions, and a great read while waiting for pasta to boil, or for samosas to brown...enjoy!

The Dead CAN cook!! I did not know this until i read Cooking With The Dead. This collection of photos, interviews, and recipes centers around Grateful Dead followers. The recipes for anything from Magical Burritos to brownies to fruit punch are vegetarian, and most concotions allow you to throw in herbs and spices galore. Grateful Dead fans most often have less than sufficient means to prepare meals, so most of this great food is made easily and in a small amount of time . The pages in between recipes display Dead fans over portable stoves and mounds of food, couples dancing and embracing, musicians playing their favorite Dead songs, and people..well..just being Dead. Enjoy the show, the music, and THE BOOK!!

great recipes!!! vegan galore!! captures the feeling of the shows!! such a great original idea....also check out "made with love" more great recipes....and ideas!

I bought this cookbook while on vacation in the north woods; lots of the recipes were perfect for cooking in the tiny cottage kitchen and on the grill...but I had to wait until I got back to my local organic co-op for a lot of other frequently-used ingredients like tahini, tamari, nori, and rice wine vinegar.

The best part for me is that this is the only cookbook that ever caught my husband's interest and inspired him to do any kind of cooking that didn't involve a box of mac and cheese and the microwave! Since I bought this book he's made three kinds of burritos for dinner!

I prepare the black bean burrito recipe often, and it's a family favorite. There are many other nice recipes as well. The stories are also interesting, especially when one considers that the GD touring lifestyle is pretty much over.

Thanx Elizabeth.

While I love the Grateful Dead and had many great times in the lots eating and partying, I was a little disappointed in this book. It oversimplifies the variety of people in the lots and the food offered. But, for nostalgia's sake, I have to say that I read it a number of times and got a lttle teary looking at the pictures. If anything, buy it to support a fellow Deadhead and get a few good recipes in the meantime.