The Dracula Cookbook of Blood

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Summary: Completely unique, information not readily found elsewhere!
Review: The Dracula Cookbook of Blood is the most deliciously unusual book ever published. It is a cookbook for Vampires!Apparently there were two other Vampire cookbooks on the market. One of regular recipes that use stuff such as ³brontosaurus lard² that is butter, and so forth. This may be cute for the white light and pink cotton candy chef. The other is The Dark Shadows Cookbook, favorite recipes of the cast -- fine for film collectors. THIS book, however, is unique. All the recipes contain BLOOD! I agree with the authors a real Vampire would want a real blood cookbook. The recipes are from around the world and from all of our ancestors. They are all authentic recipes. It would seem all indigenous peoples used blood in cooking at one time or another. This book relates the history of blood cooking, along with nutritional and safe cooking procedures, as well as where you can always count on buying blood. It even tells how to take out bloodstains.The book is divided into breakfast, lunch, between meal snacks, main dishes and desserts. Some of the recipes include blood pancakes from Finland, meat stew from Ghana and turtle from the Ozarks. The authors even included three real bat recipes in an appendix just because they could not resist.A bundle of very obscure Vampire lore is interspersed with the recipes. One example is a Hungarian Farkaskoldus. This is a Vampire who when dying takes on the aspect of a werewolf. Another is a Rocky Mountain Vampire with a long flexible snout similar to an anteater and it uses this to suck out the brain through the ear of a sleeping victim.The book is set up so you the reader actually arrive at the castle where the master finds you and introduces you to Rodika, the head of kitchens. She then takes you on a tour the kitchens and that is where you find all the odd and fascinating bits of blood lore. Did you know when the Mongols went on long journeys they would drink the blood from their horses as nourishment? Each individual had a string of eighteen horses and would take a little over half a pint from the vein of a horse daily. This little bit compared to the horse's body weight did not affect the horse and sustained the journeyer.This book is thoroughly enjoyable from the very beginning to the blood-thirsty end.