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To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People

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I found this book on a friend's bookshelf and was instantly gripped. From the humorous front cover to the delicious-sounding back-cover recipe for "Texas Cowboy With Chili", this book is well worth reading, not only for the grim humor (which is handled, dare I say it, tastefully, and interlaced with actual, useful information) but also for the recipes. I am an experienced amateur cook, and have spent years learning how to evaluate recipes for feasability; the recipies in this book, without exception, are well-written and easy, and would not only work with "long pig" but would be delicious with other mammalian meats.

I rather wish I could give this book 4&1/2 stars; the only reason I am not giving it five is so that I have room in my judging should an even better, wittier, more deadpan and more delicious-sounding cookbook on anthropophagy come along. However, I rather doubt one will, and if one does not I will be well satisfied.

No kidding. Where else can you find the recipe for Shepherd Pie (from the real thing), Minceman, Texas Chili with Cowboy(!) or Leg of Man? Have you read the article "Sleeping with Cannibals" in Smithsonian Magazine? (The book title came from an eponymous "Twilight Zone" episode.)