Jesse's review of The Anarchist Cookbook
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Jesse's review
rating:
recommended for:
anyone. Try some of these recipes to win yourself a Darwin award.
status:
Read in January, 1994
I recently found this in an old keepsake box and thought it was funny enough that I decided to use it for my profile pic. Don't worry, I'm not going to blow you up. In fact, I couldn't, if I was only using information from this outdated, wildly inaccurate book.
As a kid, I ordered this from Barricade Books, which also offered Vietnam-era military training manuals and the like. My friends and I knew immediately from the hilariously crude illustrations and rambling diatribes that the information was suspect at best. The Poor Man's James Bond was a much more reliable book on booby traps and improvised weapons, even if it was written by a right-wing survivalist lunatic.
But Cookbook is still an amusing read. I admit, we tried the "bananadine" recipe. Nothing except a coughing fit. Unbeknownst to us at the time, the idea of getting high on banana peels is a hoax, and the book's author fell for it.
As a kid, I ordered this from Barricade Books, which also offered Vietnam-era military training manuals and the like. My friends and I knew immediately from the hilariously crude illustrations and rambling diatribes that the information was suspect at best. The Poor Man's James Bond was a much more reliable book on booby traps and improvised weapons, even if it was written by a right-wing survivalist lunatic.
But Cookbook is still an amusing read. I admit, we tried the "bananadine" recipe. Nothing except a coughing fit. Unbeknownst to us at the time, the idea of getting high on banana peels is a hoax, and the book's author fell for it.
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