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Summary: Warning, you can also die laughing!
Review: "WARNING!!! THIS BOOK IS A CHOKING HAZARD!! DO NOT READ WHILE EATING. It is hilarious. And the recipes, should I ever get around to trying them, look like the greatest thing since Mom's. (or mine)".
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Summary: Eat, drink and be merry
Review: (My original review disappeared, hence this second review. Of course, now the original has come back, and I don't know how to delete duplicate reviews; I can only edit my reviews. But at least this gives me a chance to give the book 10 stars.)This book had me laughing out loud on the first page of the Foreword, and kept me laughing throughout. Graham writes well - and writes funny. Indeed, I did not put down the book (despite fits of chuckling) until I finished the whole thing in one sitting. Sometimes I wish I wasn't such a speed-reader. Then I went and made the chili. The recipes are to die for. Literally. Someone please call 911 for me....
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Summary: Get it!
Review: Great recipes and social commentary on the side. What more can you ask for? Funny reading, and tastes great.
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Summary: Get it!
Review: Great recipes, and some seriously funny writing. Fattening food and annoying social commentary, with a ticked-off-looking pig on the cover; what more can you ask for?
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Summary: Genius
Review: I was one of those privileged to proofread this book before it went to print and my wife has not yet forgiven me for the night of sleep I deprived her while I convulsed and cackled with laughter, unable to put this down. Remember the classic "The Joy of Cooking"? Well, the diet police have sucked the life and joy out of food and "joy" is not the first word that comes to mind anymore. We don't eat just for nutrition or else we'd reduce the process to eating bland squares of "processed food". No, as a species, we have the of a working tongue with which to savor really great food. Steve gives easy-to-read and easy-to-make recipes and infuses his recipes with an unapologetic male attitude. More than a cookbook, but more practical than just humor, you'll probably need to replace your grease-stained copy annually. Eat What You Want and Die Like A Man will be re-read, quoted and used regularly. Buy it, read it, and after you catch your breath and wake up from a delicious food coma, you will be buying copies for friends and family.
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Summary: Delicious Food & Harsh Non-PC Humor
Review: I wrote this horrible book. Amazon took down the reviews my readers were kind enough to post, so I'm starting over. This is a collection of humor essays, but each one features a really fantastic and unhealthy recipe, like chicken-fried ribeye on a Frisbee-sized biscuit with cream gravy. It also contains the world's most decadent brownie recipe (540 calories each). It also has recipes for things like coconut flan, chocolate flan, and yeast-raised doughnuts fried in lard. I hope you enjoy it. Oh--the brownie recipe is missing the words "1 cup all-purpose flour." So that explains why you keep getting fudge.
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Summary: Scary, Delicious Food; Harsh Non-PC Humor
Review: I wrote this horrible book. This is a collection of humor essays, but each one features a really fantastic and unhealthy recipe, like chicken-fried ribeye on a Frisbee-sized biscuit with cream gravy. It also contains the world's most decadent brownie recipe (540 calories each). It also has recipes for things like coconut flan, chocolate flan, and yeast-raised doughnuts fried in lard. I hope you enjoy it. Oh--the brownie recipe is missing the words "1 cup all-purpose flour." So that explains why you keep getting fudge.
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Summary: Delicious Food & Harsh Non-PC Humor
Review: I wrote this horrible book. Amazon took down the reviews my readers were kind enough to post, so I'm starting over. This is a collection of humor essays, but each one features a really fantastic and unhealthy recipe, like chicken-fried ribeye on a Frisbee-sized biscuit with cream gravy. It also contains the world's most decadent brownie recipe (540 calories each). It also has recipes for things like coconut flan, chocolate flan, and yeast-raised doughnuts fried in lard. I hope you enjoy it. Oh--the brownie recipe is missing the words "1 cup all-purpose flour." So that explains why you keep getting fudge.
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Summary: Superb!!
Review: Just got it a couple of days ago, and I've been chuckling ever since. The author is apparently half-insane, but that's okay, as his insanity seems to stem from the extreme oppression that the food police so delight in inflicting on ordinary mortals.
This book may be offensive to the joyless and easily offended, but, hey, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. That is also okay, as the joyless and easily offended probably prefer bean sprouts and tofu anyway.
I found his chapter on barbeque, in particular, very useful. Pay strict attention to his dissertation on cast iron skillets. I believe there may be a typo in the discussion on red-eye gravy. IMHO, red-eye gravy needs to be made with coffee, not water. Sure, you can make ham gravy with water, but then it's just gravy, not red-eye. Your mileage may vary.
If you enjoy life, you will enjoy this book and should buy it for yourself. If your life is plagued by professional killjoys, buy it as a gift for them just to be annoying. Either way, you win!
If you don't enjoy life - well, go forth, eat your raw carrots in peace, and let history forget you were ever our countryman.
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Summary: Funniest book in years!
Review: Steve Graham has outdone himself with this book. It is definitely the funniest book I've read in years; it had me laughing out loud, in public. Definitely don't ruin it by reading while eating... spraying food is really not pleasant. Graham takes off anything approaching a PC-glove and just rips lose. When he comes across a sacred cow, he simply grills it. The recipies are terrific. There are plenty of them--even more on his weblog "Hog on Ice"--and they all pretty much work as advertised. Your cardiologist won't love them, but your organ bank just might.
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