Working on a piece about Thanksgiving wines for later today/early tomorrow, but here’s a few tidbits of utter food absurdity for you in the meantime:
Coolio launches cookbook, dubs himself ‘Ghetto Gourmet’
Rapper Coolio has entered the ‘celebrity chef’ fray, releasing a cookbook “Cooking with Coolio” that features such recipes as Chicken Lettuce Blunts and Cold Shrimpin’. (Thank you, THANK YOU, Boston.com, for posting the extended interview on your blog.) Among the best quotes:
“I am the Ghetto Gourmet, and my style of cooking is ghetto fusion. Instead of saying African-American and Asian, I say Blasian. Instead of saying urban and Italian, I say Ghettalian.”
“Salt was more expensive back in the day. We used to use salt to trade. You could trade for [darn] gold, for silk, you could trade spices for women.”
“You can cook some Kobe beef and I can cook some beef straight out of Compton, and you’d be hard pressed to make your [stuff] taste better than mine. My [stuff] is going to fall off the bone.”
Chicago Sun-Times publishes White Castle stuffing recipe
Somewhere in New Jersey, Harold and Kumar rejoice. and get REALLY high.
From the brilliant minds of J&D’s, who also created Bacon Salt, Baconnaise, Bacon Pop (popcorn) and Bacon Ranch dressing. We were big fans of bacon-product hilarity in the Courant newsroom. I just want to know why I didn’t discover these envelopes before I sent out all my wedding thank-you notes Tuesday…
Leeanne Griffin is a freelance writer and food enthusiast.
That is too funny. They should just mark that book down to $2.99 and stick it in the clearance section because that’s where it’ll be in 6 months anyways. I have to give him credit though, most rappers have their hands in a lot of other business ventures and I just read something recently that said cook book sales have gone up significantly, as has culinary school admissions, over the past few years (due in part because of the mainstream success of Food Network and other culinary programming, but I digress). Either way, I applaud his business acumen.
Leeanne, have you heard about the bacon flavored vodka?
http://www.bakonvodka.com/
I have! I’ve seen multiple recipes for BLTinis.