By Hook or by Cook:The Official Nevada Brothel Cookbook

By Hook or by Cook: The Official Nevada Brothel Cookbook
(Cat House Cuisine Concocted by Nevada's Finest Working Ladies)

Edited by J.R. Schwartz (Fourth Edition: 2001)

This jokey cookbook offers recipes from 'Nevada's Finest Working Ladies' and includes recipes such as "Nut Nibbles", "Eggs Bend a Dick" and "The Twilight Bone."



The recipes are followed by a section on "Aphrodisiacs, Food and Therapy" and a questionable "Glossary of Terms". :)

The book's Disclaimer reveals that everything in it is made up (although it assures you that the recipes are, in fact, edible).

1980 Olympic Games in MoscowCookbook and Schedule of Events

1980 Olympic Games in Moscow Cookbook and Schedule of Events
(Favorite Recipes of Prospective U.S. Participants)

This handy volume was put out by the United States Olympic Committee in 1979. It includes a brief history of the Olympic Games, a schedule of events for 1980, and recipes contributed by 'prospective' U.S. Olympic athletes. Supposedly, the first winner of the earliest recorded Olympic competitions (in 776 B.C.) was a cook named Coroebus of Elis. A cook! So why not a cookbook of recipes favored by Olympic athletes?

Unlike many cookbooks, which are organized according to type of recipe (Meat, Fish, Salad, Dessert, etc.), this book is organized according to Olympic event. For instance, the first chapter is "Archery" and includes recipes contributed by American archers. So if you want to eat like an archer (or a boxer, or a gymnast, etc.) might have back in 1980, this is the book for you.

Each chapter's title page includes the days and time that the event will (did) take place, the names of the athletes who contributed recipes for that chapter, and a brief Olympic history of that particular sport.




Among the recipes that caught my eye:

Peanut Butter Omelet contributed by James Edward Kennedy of Knoxville Tennessee. Event: Diving

Goulash A La Sarah Jones contributed by Robert Cragg of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Event: Diving

New England Codfish Balls contributed by Gregg Stone of Cambridge Massachusetts. Event: Rowing

Watergate Salad contributed by Mary Phyl Dwight of Manhattan Kansas. Event: Team Handball

Watergate Cake contributed by Wilfredo Leiva, Jr. of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Event: Freestyle and Greco Roman Wrestling

and my favorite recipe in this book:
Crunchy Peanut-Stuffed Hotdogs contributed by Linda "Chick" Lillis of Chicago, Illinois. Event: Team Handball



Alas, the United States ultimately led a boycott against the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan) and none of these athletes got to compete for a medal in Moscow that year. However, some of them did compete in the alternate Olympic Boycott Games held that year in Philadelphia.


If you feel an urge to try the Crunchy Peanut-Stuffed Hotdogs recipe, please post your review to the comment section! :)



1980 Olympic Games in Moscow: Cookbook and schedule of events : favorite recipes of prospective U.S. participants

Arrow Book of Easy Cooking (1955)

Arrow Book of Easy Cooking
(Let's Cook Without Cooking)

Cooking without cooking? Well, I can't imagine it gets any easier than that!

This "cookbook" is geared towards children, with easy recipes and fun illustrations. Look closely at the cover and you'll see an apple shooting an arrow at a cutting board (revenge?), an angry looking serving spoon, and some humanoid bananas walking smaller bananas on leashes.

Don't miss: Banana-Prune Whip on page 52. (Kids love prunes!)

































A doughnut loving dachshund!














This illustration accompanies the recipe for Chocolate Banana Pudding.
Those are some happy looking bananas!


By Esther Rudomin, Illustrated by Lee Smith
Copyright 1955, First Scholastic Edition 1962

TOFU GOES WEST (1978)

TOFU GOES WEST

Recipes by Gary Landgrebe

Illustrations by Seraphina Landgrebe

1978, Fresh Press

Is that the hand of God bringing tofu to the cowboys?

Tofu breads spilling forth from a radiant cloud!

Breadless toast. In fact, even the toaster is optional.

the munchies eatbook (1973)

the munchies eatbook (or, how to satisfy the hungries without eating everything in sight) 

By alice and elliot hess. Published in1973.

An amusing cookbook targeted particularly at "the munchies" and proposing to help you find your "peaceful palate." 

Featuring bright orange pages and trippy hippie illustrations.

Despite the liberal use of lips and tongue imagery, this cookbook is not affiliated with the Rolling Stones (as far as I can tell). 

Hippies with munchies?

The Munchies Eatbook (Or, How to Satisfy the Hungries without Eating Everything in Sight)