Critter Cuisine (Paperback)

~ Mary A. Clayton (Author)

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Product Description

For the cook who's cooked it all--new and wonderful dishes based on the creatures that crawl in our yards at night, swim in our drainage ditches, and flap around in vacant houses. The Claytons give new meaning to the old idiom "cooking from your own backyard". 20 full-color photographs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 54 pages
• Publisher: Longstreet Press (September 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563523566
• ISBN-13: 978-1563523564
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,470,030 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An exquisitely photographed appitite inducing volume., July 7, 1999

By	Robert Jase (New Britain, CT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is truely a unique book. Surely Martha Stewart must have been channelling the spirit of Granny Clampett to produce these unusual delicacies. Had detailed recipes been included a full 5 stars would have been earned.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine food pardody makes you wince & laugh at the same time., September 30, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Critter Cuisine (Hardcover)

We've all seen examples of fine food photography in recipe books, magazine articles and advertisements. Here is a book done by a couple of the experts in the field who poke fun at both themselves and at the rest of us who have come to expect photos of food to be mouth-watering and appealing on a very basic level. But wait until you see the mouse-kabobs with your own eyes! The images make you gape in bemused shock at these exquisitely-photographed "food" items -- that is until you notice that some of them resemble road kill! A wonderful parody on how we look at things in the modern world.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yum, yum!, January 3, 2007

By	I. M. Reider "Just Another Reader" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Critter Cuisine (Hardcover)

It is nice to see food photographers taking a poke at their own industry. In our "image is everything" society, it is particularly encouraging to see that there are some in the eye-candy trade daring enough to peel off the wrapper and let us see their technique applied to less savory subjects. Anyone for a batburger?