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Ezekiel Bread
The Bible contains only one full recipe, which is given to Ezekiel by God (Ezekiel 4:9):Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof… And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man.
So you gotta bake it with human poop, which means it might not be to everyone's taste. Though God subsequently relented and allowed Ezekiel to substitute cow dung.
This was one of the recipes explored by the Rev. Rayner Hesse and Anthony Chiffolo in their book Cooking With the Bible (it came out in 2006), in which they set out to recreate the various meals and foods that appear throughout the Bible. Apparently they cooked up some Ezekiel bread, as an experiment, and Hesse said it tastes "like moldy bean sprouts." But he added, "You don't want to eat it. Never, ever. Let me emphasize that: Never."
Other treats to be found in the book include Locust Soup, and Locusts and Honey. More info at the LA Times.
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 29, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks
Cooking with Poo
Her name is Poo, and she likes to cook. Would you like to cook with her? Or maybe just buy her book on Amazon
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Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 07, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks
Chef Boyardee Recipes
Every page has the same text.
1) Open can.
2) Dump in saucepan.
3) Heat and serve.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 29, 2011 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks, Books
Radiation Cookery Book
Back in March I wrote an article for Smithsonian magazine about pseudo-scientific terms that have gone out of fashion. For instance, it used to be all the rage to affix "electro-" to everything, as in "electro-lumps" (one marketers inspired term for coal).A term I definitely could have included in my article is "radiation." Once upon a time it didn't have the negative connotations it does today. Witness the "Radiation Cookery Book" from 1934. It didn't actually use radiation for the cooking (except in so far as heat itself is a form of radiation). Instead "Radiation" was the name of the company that made the gas cooker for which the recipes were designed.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 16, 2008 -
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Category: Fads, Food, Cookbooks, Science, Weird Names
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