Bear needs title for cookbook, offers prize

Thank goodness for the 'off topic' forum. A title is required for a forthcoming cookbook, and the publisher (Snow Lion) offers a $500 prize for the first person who submits a title actually used. I'm posting this here, because there are a lot of creative folks out there, and one never knows.

The book is a compendium of unusual recipes, that fit into one or more of the following four categories:

Unusual ingredients or uses of ingredients (such as eggplant bread, cheddar cheese fudge, or a nasturtium sandwich. Remember when we all thought carrot cake was unusual!).

Unusual combinations (such as the salmon-chocolate casserole we invented, and brownies made with tomato soup).

Unusual preparation (such as the cake you cook from the inside out by drizzling it onto a rotisserie spit, and the chicken you cook by wrapping in foil and wiring it to the exhaust manifold of your car, and driving 100 miles.

Unusual stories (such as the m’jeddrah which is believed to be the actual “mess of pottage” for which Esau sold his birthright).

Title and, more than likely, a subtitle (what comes after the colon) is needed by mid January. (For instance: "The Unusual Cookbook: 183 eccentric but tasty recipes")

You could post here, if you wish, or Email me directly at [email protected] Prize paid on publication and decision of the publisher is final. Thank you.

 

Fear and Loathing in the Alimentary Canal: A Masochist's Guide to Gastrointestinal Distress

 

What Color Is Your Gastric Chute? A Stomach-Churning Guide for the Brave and Foolhardy

 

Here is the award winning title, John.

"More-Than-Wonderful Meals: Culinary Credentials for the Less-Than-Wonderful Chef"

Russell

 

Hmmmmm, for an entree, I'll offer "Culinary Uncustomary" but I reserve the right to move on to suggestions for the salad, fish, main, and dessert courses at a later time.

 

After the Apocalypse: Cooking for the Damned or
Feed the Damned: Cooking for a Post-Apocalyptic Age

Oski's Revenge: The Bear's Guide to Cruel and Unusual Punishment Through Cooking

Up Yours! Gastrointestinal Intrusions for the In-Laws and Other Unwelcome Guests

Mrs. Beelzebub's Book of Household Management

 

Iron Chef: Gutbusting Recipes for an Iron Constitution

 

Hhumm, "Food for Thought - A readers guide to Gastrological Delights"

Regards,
Tom

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I thought this one was obvious:

Bear's guide to the best distance recipes: How to cook in the kitchen while sitting in the living room watching TV

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ROFLMBO

 

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Peter, this is the first post of yours I can actually comprehend; you have never been more eloquent.

Gus Sainz

 

Easily developed at degree mill campus in gaining the necessary experiences in collegiality.

The mpre experience you get, the better you get at it.


Just really pissed off that after such excellent experiences from Sussex Institute of Technology, American Coastline University, and Summit University of Louisiana, I missed out on the Danzig College of Crapology. That would have left the best enema in the shade!

Peter

 

Bearly Cooking: 100 Recipes to Write Home About

Palate Persuasion: 100 Recipes to Challange Your Cooking Comfort Zone

Quirky Cuisine: <one of above subtitles>

Cuisine Art: < > (Perhaps too close to TM)

 

I know...Challenge.

 

How about "101 Things to do with a Dead Chicken" ?

Or a Flogged Dead Horse ?

 

Gag Reflex: 163 Shocking Recipes to Raise Your Bile
(With all my insulting suggestions, I wonder whether I have yet reached the permanently persona non grata list at the Bear household?)

 

Bear's Guide to Cooking for Fun

 

Here's the winning entry:

"Bear's Guide to Cooking Food Nontraditionally"

Tracy<><

 

My wife wondered if that parenthetical statement was meant as a pun, as the word colon has a double meaning: one gramatical, the other anatomical. It got me thinking about what comes before the colon in relation to a cookbook, which led to this title:

What Comes Before the Colon: A Guide to Pleasing Your Digestive Tract With Nontraditional Cooking

And frankly, John, I'd rather not think about what comes after the colon

Tracy<><