It may come as a surprise to many regular
readers of this column to learn that such a serious writer as myself
has written two cookbooks. (Now out of print to the delight of serious
cooks everywhere.) One of my cookbooks, The I Hate Chicken Cookbook, was
actually my second best selling book. And I can't even toast bread!
Go
into any bookstore, if you can still find one, and you'll notice the
cookbook section is one of the largest sections in the store. You can
find everything from Anorexics on a Diet, The Cannibal's Cookbook and
the The Oat Bran Cookbook, for excellent bathroom reading.
I've
noticed lately a new and disgusting trend: there is now a plethora of
new vegetarian cookbooks filled with quick, easy and "cruelty free"
meatless dishes. I even found one called, "I Love Animals and Brocoli
Cookbook." Unlike my own cookbooks, these new cookbooks are filled with
recipes such as un-tuna sandwiches, black bean soup, curried chickpeas
and garbanzo bean burgers. Yum, yum! I got gas and indigestion just
reading the titles.
Most
of these vegetarian cookbooks are trying to make a political statement
rather than make good vittles. Most are written by well known Hollywood
animal rightists or greenies. But I must admit, there's a certain
temptation to write my own vegetarian cookbook as a way of cashing in on
the current craze and I've already got my first recipe for my all new
"Vegetarian's Anonymous All Meat Cookbook."
I'll
share it with you now to tickle your tastebuds and get you prepared to
shell out big bucks for a bad book. It's a recipe for "Vegetarian
Friutcake," which I admit is redundant but I am sure you will enjoy it
as much as I did. You can find the following ingredients at your
favorite health food store.
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