Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch [Paperback]

Dorion Sagan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 16, 2001 | Series: greatunpublished.com

What People are Saying:

"Delectable as the body of an Italian woman. This is the book I have been waiting for since my untimely death."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Colonel Sanders, eat your heart out."

Chef Boyardee

"Better than Julia Child and you don't have to listen to the screechy voice."

Joyce Chen

"High in fiber."

Ralph Nader

"A revelation. An evil revelation, but a revelation."

Billy Graham

"Comedic, sardonically acute insight...opens with a quote you won't find on any billboard." Melissa Harrison

"A work of pure sub-genius."

Bob

"Burger King is a Dairy Queen, but Cooking with Jesus is culinary dynamite. I wish I read this book before I got into the franchise business. I would have got married."

Wendy

"I'm Jewish, too."

Kathy Lee Gifford

"Absolutely a comic marvel, the funniest book ever written, even if I don't agree with the pot shots taken at McDonald's."

Bill Clinton

"I loved the Pepper Spray Catfish recipe. It gave me an idea."

Marilyn Manson

"Aunt Jemimah loved it."

Uncle Ben

"Funny as shit."
God

"Finally my son writes an OK book."

Carl Sagan

"If it be true that our body is a temple then what better way to worship than Cooking with Jesus. I found it nourishing for both the body and the soul."

Reverend Michael David Barnes,
Jonesboro, Arkansas

"Witty and irreverent....a fascinating vehicle for his fusion of science, religion and cuisine....something special."

Gail Winston,
Senior Editor,
HarperCollins Publishers

"[D]elightful....compelling....vividly original.."

Roberta Tennant,
Editor-in-Chief,
Falcon Books

"Hilarious. I laughed my head off."

Lynn Margulis,
Member, National Academy of Sciences

"Funny, witty, life-affirming--and, to be honest, I don't even finish most books."

Lisa Palumbo,
Music Teacher

"Thank you for sending me the manuscript for COOKING WITH JESUS by Dorion Sagan. Unfortunately, I don't feel that it is right for the Grove/ Atlantic list."

Morgan Entrekin,
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

"An intriguingly offbeat amalgam of science, religion and culinary arts. I'm afraid our consensus was that the audience for this book wouldn't be large enough for us to publish it successfully."

Charlie Conrad,
Bantam Doubleday Dell

"Witty and irreverent...provides a fascinating vehicle for his fusion of science, religion, and cuisine. However, after reading a few chapters, I began to feel that his manuscript lacked a solid skeleton on which to hang his voice."

Gail Winston,
Senior Editor,
HarperCollins Publishers

"You don't need to say `this is worth the price of the book' four times. Plus I found a lot of little typos. It needs work."

Lynn Margulis,
workaholic


"My name is spelled with two 'n's.'"

Dianne Bilyak,
Award-winning poet

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Comedic, sardonically acute insight...opens with a quote you won't find on any billboard." Melissa Harrison -- Melissa Harrison

About the Author

Recipient of the EdPress Association of America Excellence in Educational Journalism Award, Dorion has written for Wired, The Skeptical Inquirer,The New York Times, Natural History, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Higher Education Supplement. His books, most coauthored, include Slanted Truths, What is Life? (“mind-altering masterpiece”—Utne Reader; “a masterpiece of science writing”—Mitchell Tomashaw, Orion), Biospheres, Garden of Microbial Delights, Microcosmos (“A seminal book”—Ben Bova; “One of the most important books in the history of humanity”—Amazon.com), Origins of Sex, and Cooking with Jesus: From the First Brew to the Last Brunch (“Funny...truly entertaining...More fun than a night at the Ouija board with vodka tonics and expensive hors d’oeuvres.”—Jeff Schwaner, co-founder booksurge.com). His most recent projects include (with Lynn Margulis) Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species, Up From Dragons (with John Skoyles) and Into the Cool (with Eric D. Schneider).

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (April 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588981606
• ISBN-13: 978-1588981608
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #967,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author and co-author of twenty-four books translated into eleven languages, Dorion Sagan has written for Natural History, Smithsonian, BioScience, The Sciences, The Ecologist, Co-Evolution Quarterly, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Skeptical Inquirer, Wired, Pabular, Times Higher Education Supplement, Whole Earth Review, and Cabinet. He writes the column "In Orbit" at Wild River Review, an online magazine devoted to culture, travel and politics. He is recipient of an EdPress Association of America Excellence in Educational Journalism Award, a Humana scholarship, and has been anthologized in scientific collections such as those edited by Richard Dawkins and E.O. Wilson, as well as in philosophical collections such as Zone 6: Incorporations, published by MIT Press. Sagan's co-authored Into the Cool, on life and energy, was called "fascinating" by Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann; his co-authored Up From Dragons, on neuroscience and brain evolution, was called "Thrilling" by Publishers Weekly; his co-authored Microcosmos, was called "a seminal book" by science fiction author Ben Bova. Writing about this book in The New York Times Book Review, Dr. Melvin Konner wrote that "this admiring reader of Lewis Thomas, Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould has seldom, if ever, seen such a luminous prose style in a work of this kind." Peter Warshall, an editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, called his co-authored What is Sex? "The most interesting text written on sex." His coauthored What is Life? (Foreword by Niles Eldredge), was called "A masterpiece of science writing" by Orion, and included with works by Billie Holiday and William Shakespeare on a list of "100 Mind-Altering Masterpieces" by Utne Reader. Death/Sex, the double book with NYU professor Tyler Volk, won Bookbinders' Guild of New York 2009 Award for Best Nonfiction Hardcover. Of Sagan's contribution Denis Noble, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, Oxford University, Fellow of the Royal Society, and former thesis advisor for Richard Dawkins had the following to say: "In just 100 pages, everything you really need to know about sex: Why? When? Where? With whom? Dorion Sagan slides effortlessly from seductive prose to bringing the reader sharp up against one astonishing scientific discovery after another." His latest books include, The Sciences of Avatar, released exclusively on Kindle, and Notes from the Holocene, recently released in Chinese. Cofounder of Chelsea Green Publishing Company's Sciencewriters imprint, and a Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, Dorion has been a Humana Scholar at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Sputnik Observatory, a New York cultural intelligence group. He currently divides his time between Toronto and western Massachusetts.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miracle Foods, June 6, 2004

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Jessica - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (Paperback)

As an ex-Waffle House waitress and paleontologist,I found this book smart and often very funny. Although irreverent, it is hardly Godless, as chapters such as "God and Eggs" and "Foods of the gods" attest. To this latter category might be added grapefruit,which has just been shown to be a "miracle food" that leads to weight loss even without dieting.Definitely a worthwhile addition to the library of the cook or metaphysician.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low-Carb Reading, July 13, 2004

By 

Leigh Perkowski - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (Paperback)

WARNING: Extended metaphors and use of puns ahead. All characters represented in this book are organic and biodegradable. Though the NRA has given its stamp of approval, the FDA has not been able to endorse this book at present since it contains trace amounts of MTBE, arsenic, and chlorine (but so does your tap water). This book is low in carbs but unfortunately one or two small animals may be harmed if you actually use these recipes.

If you like to cook, buy this book. If you like Jesus, buy this book. If you like to cook AND you like Jesus--oh my dear, sweet, God do I know the book for you!

But first let me introduce myself, I am THE Dianne (with 2 N's) Bilyak mentioned briefly in the book Cooking with Jesus. Dorion credits me with adding a culinary twist to a familiar, modern Christian maxim. And so you'll have even one more reason to read this book, I'm not going to tell you what that clever twist is. I was rather proud of my minor contribution and showed it to my parents. My mother, a professional Catholic, had this to say, "Cooking with Jesus is a travesty. The Eleventh Commandment, `Thou shalt not make a mockery of our Lord,' applies here. May God have mercy on your soul." My father, a professional chef, and never one to miss a pun, quickly added, "May God have mercy on your sole, like the fish, get it?" But I've gotten off the subject and this isn't supposed to be about me.

Having been with the author during the inspirational conception (non-immaculate of course) I may be biased in my review of this work. But let me just say, I NEVER tire of reading Cooking with Jesus and I have not been hired to say that. I especially like the repeated plugs in the book. For example, when Sagan has let us in on one of his luscious secrets, he'll say, "and this is worth the price of the book alone." Really, that quote, used again and again and again throughout, truly did make it more worthwhile. As a sort of quasi-prophet, Sagan lends us his cooking secrets and ties it all together with the shiny side of Christianity's ribbon. And we, the public get to profit from this endeavor. In the end we have a few more savory recipes, more than a couple of great laughs and the feeling that somewhere out there, Jesus might just be laughing and cooking right along with us.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the Inside Cover, December 4, 2005

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Parker Paisley (Burlington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (Paperback)

"Delectable as the body of an Italian woman. This is the book I have been waiting for since my untimely death." Napolean Bonaparte

"Colonel Sanders, eat your heart out." Chef Boyardee

"Better than Julia Child and you don't have to listen to the screechy voice." Joyce Chen

"High in fiber." Ralph Nader

"A revelation. An evil revelation, but a revelation." Billy Graham

"A work of pure sub-genius." Bob

"Burger King is a Dairy Queen, but Cooking with Jesus is culinary dynamite. I wish I read this book before I got into the franchise business. I would have got married." Wendy

"I'm Jewish, too." Kathy Lee Gifford

"Absolutely a comic marvel, the funniest book ever written, even if I don't agree with the pot shots taken at McDonald's." Bill Clinton

"I loved the Pepper Spray Catfish recipe. It gave me an idea." Marilyn Manson

"Aunt Jemimah loved it." Uncle Ben

"Funny as sh*t." God

"Finally my son writes an okay book." Carl Sagan