The Bad For You Cookbook

Does anyone have this cookbook by Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller? I use it often and it has some excellent roadfood and roadfood-esque recipes. It has become one of my favorite cookbooks, and it's a lot of fun just to read. There is all sorts of food lore in its pages, as well as some scathing diatribes against the food police. The authors have a lot to say about this. One chapter counsels folks to just sip some heavy cream out of a glass to experience it's luscious taste, assuring us that "it won't kill you". Another chapter is titled: If It Can Be Poached, It Can Be Fried. A recipe for lard cake is subtitled "where Southern tradition, poverty, and the American chemical industry intersect". I bought it thinking it might be more of a gag or theme book, like White Trash Cooking, but it has proven its worth time and again as a serious cookbook that is hilarious to boot. Highly recommended.

Another read on a similar vein is the Sweet Potato Queen's Cookbook and Financial Planner.

Mmmn. Heavy cream. I've got 3 quarts of the heaviest cream available in the Pacific Northwest sitting in the fridge, awaiting the glorious transformation into ice cream.

The ugly reality is that aside from products of the lab like trans- saturated fatty acids (which *will clearly kill you*) and tainted/adulterated food, food isn't poison. My personal Bad For You cookbooks include almost anything by Julia Child, Nancy Silverton and James Beard and most of all, Rose Levy Beranbaum. Bless them all, their recipes are rendolent of butter, cream, olive oil, beef fat and pork products.

Eric, Who Has Cholesterol and Triglyceride Numbers Each Under 100

Let's not forget Paul Prudhomme's classic "Louisiana Kitchen"! Still my favorite book and full of everything bad!

I always keep a jug of heavy cream in the fridge. I was amazed at how long these things last...over 1 month! I easily use that much, especially in the winter with my soups and heartier cooking fare.

Stogie

"White Trash Cooking" has some darn good recipes! And check out www.rubylot18.homestead.com

Try out any of the following. All are great cookbooks (ne of them #1 is my pick for best cookbook in US), but they are not deigned for those afraid of butter, fat, or meat. All of these are available on line and can be found in alot of bookstores.
#1- Cotton Country Collection-Jr League of Monroe LA
#2- River Road #1- Jr League of Nacitoches LA
#3- Southern Sideboards- Jr League of Jackson MS (try the okra and Tomatoes, mmmm, first you get some bacon grease)
#4- Jill Conner's Big Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner( I built a Brewpubat Hal and Mals in Jackson and met her a number of times. She is even more fun than the books would led you to believe. And yes, she did make me the promise, but no luck (to understand this you will need to read the Sweet Potato Queens first book)

I love the Sweet Potato Queen books...they're so much fun to read. You can learn more about them on their site: http://www.sweetpotatoqueens.com/spq/

Don't forget Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595318452/qid=1100955950/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-5891473-7606503

Tom