Exotic Meats & Inedible Objects: A Collection of Literary Recipes

by Rachel Rodman, John Baltisberger (Editor)

Rachel Rodman's collection of odd literary recipes that blend horror, folk tales and humor in wonderfully quirky poetry. Exotic Meats & Inedible Objects is grim and playful, by turns; its pieces have been variously described as "clever and funny," "disturbing and thought-provoking," and "amusing and weird."You Couldn't Cook It Less·2 figs, diced·1 rat's anus, sautédStir with a bow from the world's smallest violin.Add some other stuff, too–or not. Whatever.America the Beautiful·1 bald eagle·1 big blue ox·50 amber waves of grainEncase in an apple pie crust.Frost with smallpox.Recipes of this "classic" form are interspersed with works of very short prose, which give a culinary spin to famous stories.Mid-Diluvian MeatballsAs the water receded from the land, revealing an empty world, Noah descended from the Ark. His stomach bulged, and the deck behind him was littered with bones and gristle."You misunderstood," said a Voice from the clouds. It was raw and enraged and tragic, and it reverberated with the irrevocability of the loss. "Those animals were not for eating."Exotic Meats & Inedible Objects explores many history, time travel, and ancient myths; art, biology, popular culture, fairy tales, and mathematics. It is funny. It is sad. It is strange and playful and provocative.What really drives Exotic Meats & Inedible Objects though, is the idiosyncratic conviction that everything is edible. (And, in its own delicious.) And that even traditionally inert ingredients, like fallen trees, jars of urine, semicolons, sound waves, nihilism, and so on, can, and should, be chopped, seasoned, baked, frosted, swallowed, digested…and savored.

Genres: Horror

160 pages, Paperback

Published February 13, 2020

Reviews

[Seb · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't get it 😐🤨🤷

[Michael Allen Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the most innovative and unique collections I've ever read. Rachel takes recipes, poetry, flash fiction, and a truly fascinating experimental style of writing and mashes them together into a very clever and eminently readable book. You'll find fairy tales, philosophical treatises, modern ennui, and a million different topics from high culture, low culture, pop culture, and all points West, distilled into their essential ingredients and spilled out onto the page. I want more.

[John Baltisberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure, I am the publisher and editor of this book. But I need to tell you this too, books like this are WHY I do what I do. When this manuscript came across my desk I fell in love, and I spent nearly a year so excited about getting the chance to bring this book into the world!