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How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time: A Cannabis Cookbook
Cook delicious dishes with cannabis like never before and take each meal to new heights with recipes that are sure to delight stoners and newcomers alike.
Recreational cannabis use is now legalized in nearly half of the United States (and medicinal use is legalized in most states), but for so many people, edibles are the preferred method. For some, smoking is too harsh on their lungs while others find it more fun to eat their weed. Plus, the high you get from consuming cannabis in food can be stronger and more sustained versus the immediate and sometimes overwhelming rush you might get from smoking it. While most dispensaries sell gummies and possibly infused chocolates, there’s so much more you can do with weed at home, and that’s what How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time is here to prove.
Author and host of VICE’s Bong Appetit, Vanessa Lavorato is teaching you how to create sweet and savory cannabis dishes right in your home kitchen. After crafting 200 certified lab tests in her research—to help ensure that the infusions for staples like cannabis butter, oil, sugar, and more are as accurate as possible—Vanessa walks you through every step of the process with informative tables and charts, making this book incredibly useful and wildly popular.
With dazzling photography throughout, the book includes delicious recipes like taquitos, wontons, meatballs, granola, muffins, cookies, blondies, brownies, cupcakes, and more. There are also recipes for dips, dressings, and sauces from salsa to pesto to marinara—many of which can be prepared in advance and stored in the fridge or freezer for when you want to take a dish to new heights. And for when you want to drink your weed, there are recipes for milkshakes, chai, iced tea, and even a Bloody Mary.
This book is packed with tips and advice throughout on topics like how weed gets people high, using everything from your stove to your microwave for decarboxylation (heat activates cannabis), cooking with concentrates, and shopping for weed. This is the most authoritative book ever published on the subject of cannabis consumption.
Recreational cannabis use is now legalized in nearly half of the United States (and medicinal use is legalized in most states), but for so many people, edibles are the preferred method. For some, smoking is too harsh on their lungs while others find it more fun to eat their weed. Plus, the high you get from consuming cannabis in food can be stronger and more sustained versus the immediate and sometimes overwhelming rush you might get from smoking it. While most dispensaries sell gummies and possibly infused chocolates, there’s so much more you can do with weed at home, and that’s what How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time is here to prove.
Author and host of VICE’s Bong Appetit, Vanessa Lavorato is teaching you how to create sweet and savory cannabis dishes right in your home kitchen. After crafting 200 certified lab tests in her research—to help ensure that the infusions for staples like cannabis butter, oil, sugar, and more are as accurate as possible—Vanessa walks you through every step of the process with informative tables and charts, making this book incredibly useful and wildly popular.
With dazzling photography throughout, the book includes delicious recipes like taquitos, wontons, meatballs, granola, muffins, cookies, blondies, brownies, cupcakes, and more. There are also recipes for dips, dressings, and sauces from salsa to pesto to marinara—many of which can be prepared in advance and stored in the fridge or freezer for when you want to take a dish to new heights. And for when you want to drink your weed, there are recipes for milkshakes, chai, iced tea, and even a Bloody Mary.
This book is packed with tips and advice throughout on topics like how weed gets people high, using everything from your stove to your microwave for decarboxylation (heat activates cannabis), cooking with concentrates, and shopping for weed. This is the most authoritative book ever published on the subject of cannabis consumption.
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256 pages, Hardcover
Published April 15, 2025
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April 27, 2025
This gorgeous cookbook is an example of truth in advertising. If you're looking to learn about cooking with and eating cannabis, this is the book for you. Vanessa Lavorato, a legit cook and confectioner with or without the weed (check out her Los Angeles-based company, Marigold Sweets), presents a generous collection of lab-tested recipes covering mains, desserts, drinks, and more, plus tips on the safe and enjoyable consumption of "oregano." The prose is bright and spirited, the photographs are vibrant, the recipes are easy to follow (and de-lish!), and the information is well-researched, based on science, and presented with a safety-first focus. Best of all, you will have a good time simply reading the slice-of-stoner-chef-life stories the author shares.
No bad trips here: How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time is a beautiful book that the world does not deserve but desperately needs.
No bad trips here: How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time is a beautiful book that the world does not deserve but desperately needs.
July 17, 2025
Super detailed and informative cookbook for people new to weed and those who are experienced with weed. I appreciated the science breakdown at the beginning of the book to help you understand how to cook with weed.
The funny stories with each recipe just add to the book’s friendly and welcoming experience.
The funny stories with each recipe just add to the book’s friendly and welcoming experience.
April 26, 2025
This is a must have cookbook if you enjoy cannabis edibles. Vanessa takes you to weed college before getting into the recipes. This book will make sure that you know how to responsibly dose your food. The recipes are great and the book is beautifully done.
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