{"product_id":"gay-cookbook","title":"Gay Cookbook","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGay Cookbook\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChef Lou Rand Hogan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781939438935\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLast Century Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e290\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sensous sixties, Chef Hogan wrote his Wild and Wacky book. A reprint of the original edition, when the author was decades ahead of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gay Cookbook \u003c\/em\u003eis filled with the jokes and innuendo of the time\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eEven on the frontispiece, in the book's first pages, a line reads \"All rights reserved, Mary.\" An essential part of mid-century campy dialogue, was the use of female nicknames among gay men: Hogan addresses the reader by many, including Myrtle, Mabel, and Mame. The recipes are lengthy and chatty. But while written humorously, the recipes often are complex and cosmopolitan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile his repertoire includes French and American classics, it also features Mexican, Southeast Asian, and Hawaiian recipes. For a guacamole recipe, Hogan gives the basics as avocado, tomatoes, fresh lime, and salt. Those wanting to mix it up can add onion and spices, he writes, but he forbids more variation. \"This is an 'original' Mexican recipe,\" he writes, \"before it's been crapped up by some Hollywood or Brooklyn chef.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHogan also explains how to prepare an elaborate \u003cem\u003erijsttafel \u003c\/em\u003ebuffet, a many-coursed Indonesian banquet with roots in Dutch colonialism. A chili recipe spans several pages and requires hours of cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Last Century Press","offers":[{"title":"Gay Cookbook | Chef Lou Rand Hogan | Hardcover | 9781939438935 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756213","offer_id":49172257144984,"sku":"1756213","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71bzsu2yGjL.jpg?v=1779912086","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/gay-cookbook","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}