The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes)
Every time we tell someone about this book we get puzzled grins, raised eyebrows, and hilarious guesses as to what on earth The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook might possibly be. Every time we tell a guy about it, he becomes instantly intent on doing pretty much anything if it’ll get him into the book. One boy (who swears he only went out with Thisbe in order to get a recipe named after him) found out he’d missed the print deadline by a hair but that the cover wasn’t done yet and quickly e-mailed with a l
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Review by PadreRat for The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes)
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I heard the authors being interviewed on NPR and knew I had to get this book! They share stories from all stages of their lives, add great recipes and always make you wonder if a woman really had to endure these males. During the interview, they came clean that not all the stories came from them, but some happened to a ‘freind-of-a-friend’. The fun part is trying to figure out which is which. Knowing that the two most powerful things in most of our lives are food and love, this is a clever twist on short stories. Each story has a complimentary recipe associated with it. All I have to say is you are bound to met interesting men while working at farms. (You’ll have to read the stories) Who would have thought it could be such a pick-up place?!?!? I highly recommend this crafty culinary romp for the recipes and the stories. They will make you laugh, cringe, shake your head in belief (yes, not disbelief)and hungry!
Review by Jeanette L. Dumesnil for The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes)
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OK, so I’ve read the other reviews and I’m a little confused, I was under the impression that this was a cookbook with a twist.
That’s the premise under which I purchased and have used this book. I don’t think the authors intended this to be a great read, just a collection of good recipes with ancedotes about the boys or men that provided the recipes.
Now, about the recipes… I have made several dishes and all have been fantastic. The recipes are divided into six categories:Sweet, Fluffy Things, Savory, Spicy, Slippery and Substantial Things. The recipes I’ve tried (and loved) are:
Liam’s Refrigerator Cookies
Arthur’s Easy Apple Dessert
Wesley’s Cottage Cheese Pancakes(delicious!)
Josh’s Spinach-Strawberry Salad (great for potlucks)
Will’s Wonderful Wings
Sullivan’s Cold Rice Salad(goes great with the wings)
Brady’s Pepper cheese dip(awesome)- this recipe alone is worth the price of the book.
Ezra’s Sticky Chicken — My Favorite Recipe
If traditional cookbooks are your thing, this is not the book for you. But if you want some unique, easy and pretty darn good recipes, you won’t be disappointed.
Review by English101 for The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes)
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This book is not only humorous, it is smart. The authors have managed to put forth a work of post-feminism that puts the men in the kitchen. The short stories that accompany the recipes allow the authors the chance to muse on loves that have left their lives, but in no way have left them bitter or helpless. Instead, they have taken what was left and made it sweet–or in some cases savory! The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook is on my reading list for the Women’s Lit course I teach in fall.
Review by Larry Mark for The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes)
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NO, this is not a manual on how to cook an ex. This is a collection of recipes taken from the ex-boyfriends of these two women; they had an attraction to chefs, fry cooks, and others. Since these writers are collage aficionados as well, each recipe is printed atop a collage of pics and drawings. The recipes are separated into Sweet Things; Sort of fluffy things; Savory things; Spicy things, Slippery things; and Substantial things. Honestly, most of the time, I found the stories much more interesting than the recipes. I was also astonished by the number of men these two women “dated.”
The book opens with Cream Cheese Brownies, a recipe from the mother of a prom date. The mother was more into the author than her son, and was more crushed when they broke up. But what do you expect when the author made out with a waiter after her prom instead of her date? For a recipe for refrigerator cookies, she traded a pencil sharpener with her ex. While Proust may have remembered things past due to a pastry, the author recalls an English toffee recipe when the “new” girlfriend of her ex-bf moves into the apartment next door to her and she can hear them communicating through the thin walls. From Sam, a ditch digger and a Bud drinker who went to prison, one of the authors got an apple crisp recipe. From David Goldberg, a guy who once owned a ferret and liked to make out in fast food restaurant toilets, she got a Passover chocolate torte recipe. And from a neighbor she never dated, but who rarely failed to satisfy his dates, she got a “morning after” coitus coffee cake recipe.
Henry, who planned to lose his virginity in high school with one of the authors, made some nice buckwheat pancakes in the morning; from a young Iowa dental student who she met picking apples, well at least attempting to pick ones (who proposed marriage after 3 weeks), an author got a cottage cheese pancakes recipe; from Ralph, she got popcorn cake, made of popped corn and gumdrops and peanuts and M&M’s; and from some masked man at a Halloween Party, she got a banana choco chip cake recipe (they threw a banana focused party in their banana yellow house one October, and he gave her this recipe the next morning). Lemon Lush is a lemon pudding, cool whip and cream cheese mixture atop a flour crust that she got from a guy who kissed her passionately in the bathroom at a drunken wedding. They later corresponded but when they met again, she realized that reality, weddings, memories, and literary letters do not always converge. Eli, for whom she had to buy $20 worth of extra large condoms, gave her his tossed spicy vegetables recipe
Although most of the recipes are for snacks, soups, dips, drinks, salads and simple items, there are a few larger dishes. They include Thai Tom Yum Goong from a fellow Peace Corps volunteer, and Ezra’s Sticky Chicken, marinated in vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce, with whom she got splinters on a decaying dock in a pond one day.
The book feeds your stomach as well as your desire to be a voyeur
Review by Jeff Rodman for The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes)
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I came across this book in my daughter’s kitchen while visiting her in Oregon. I found myself reading the whole thing during the course of our one-week visit, but it was after I had copied out the third recipe (these are two unusual acts for me, reading whole cookbooks and copying recipes) that I realized another copy of the book deserved to be bought. For good recipes covering a wide terrain, and for short, honest perspectives on a lot of different relationships, it’s an excellent book. And I’ll admit: I’m far from a saint, but it is nice to be able to read about other guys and occasionally think “well, gee, at least I never did THAT!”