The spirits of Caligula and the Marquis de Sade haunt this viciously witty send-up of "la grande bouffe." The morbid minded and the terminally degenerate will especially enjoy such scandalous chapters as "I Can Recommend the Poodle" and "Blood, the Vital Ingredient." The decadent gourmand can't help but go wrong with this celebrated collection of recipes, an ideal gift for the terminally degenerate.
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Witty, Wicked, and Tasty, too.,
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This review is from: The Decadent Cookbook: Recipies of Excess and Obsession (Dedalus Literary Concept Books) (Paperback)
If Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker are coming to dinner, cook for them from this cookbook. _The Decadent Cookbook_ has something to intrigue, fascinate, repel, and offend everyone; that and its dry, droll tone are its two biggest charms, but it has many, from literary selections to recipes that actually work. One note on the latter, though: the recipies are amusing but, because they are all historical and many of them are quite old (and therefore taken from sources that didn't trouble with measures or temperatures, or transcribed directly from cooks' dictation), they are sometimes less than precise. Many don't contain measurements, and/or have directions such as "grill furiously until scorched and crisp"; they do require a bit of creativity and experience on the part of the cook to come out well.I could continue describing the decadent charms of this book, half literary compendium, half cookbook, and all outrageous, but instead I think I'll recommend that, inspired by an Ancient Egyptian menu and a description of a Papal feast, the curious cook try their hand at such Decadent recipes as Lady's Navels, Soles in Coffins, and Mock Hedgehog. If the cat interferes, promise him the fate of the Cat in Tomato Sauce.
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He built tall sailing-ships of cedarwood, their poops and sterns set with precious stones, their sails of many colours, and within them baths, great galleries, promenades, and dining-chambers of vast capacity, containing vines and apple-trees and many other fruits; and here he would sit feasting all day among choirs of musicians and melodious singers, and so sail along the coasts of Campania. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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He built tall sailing-ships of cedarwood, their poops and sterns set with precious stones, their sails of many colours, and within them baths, great galleries, promenades, and dining-chambers of vast capacity, containing vines and apple-trees and many other fruits; and here he would sit feasting all day among choirs of musicians and melodious singers, and so sail along the coasts of Campania. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf: Contemporary English Language by David Madsen in Front Matter, page 45, and page 50
- Book of Sausages by Antony D.Hippisley Coxe on page 94, and page 142
- Book of Sausages on page 94, and page 142
- Peregrine Pickle (Oxford World's Classics) by Tobias George Smollett on page 17, and page 30
- The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Decadence from Dedalus) (v. 1) by Brian M. Stableford in Front Matter, and page 103
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- The Decadent Traveller (Dedalus Literary Concept Books) by Medlar Lucan on 7 pages
- Extreme Cuisine: The Weird & Wonderful Foods that People Eat by Jerry Hopkins in Back Matter
- Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost in Front Matter
- Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave by Stefan Gates in Back Matter
- Sebastien Roch (Dedalus European Classics) by Octave Mirbeau in Front Matter
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