Olivers wrote:

> Bob (this one) extrapolated from data available...
>>
>><LOL> There's a guy in Secaucus, New Jersey (where else?) who makes
>>his living by writing stuff to bedevil people. Last one I saw from him
>>was the list of where words come from. That whole thing that included
>>"honeymoon" and "throwing out the baby with the bath water" and things
>>like that.
>>
>>I'm totally serious.
>>
> More subjects and more ridiculous than even that noted cookbook author
> whose name eveades me whose treatises on Western cooking methods and
> recipes range from "just plumb silly" to "What was he smoking?".

That would probably be George Herter and his truly astounding book
called "Bull Cook." I can't imagine he understood exactly how
appropriate the title is.

But there are certainly others out there.

"Cooking with Intuition" by Fred Mansbridge who calls himself "the
world's happiest psychic" is a trip down trip lane. Subtitled, "The
revolutionary way to become a gourmet cook OVERNIGHT [his caps]." A
be-sure-to-miss on any culinary adventure.

"New Native American Cooking" by Dale Carson who admits that "All the
recipes in this book are based on traditional dishes or have been
developed using traditional foods. Traditional foods, in my
interpretation are those that are either indigenous to the Americas
(corn, tomatoes, beans, squash, berries, maple, varieties of game
meats and fowl, fish and shellfish, etc.) or whose introductions were
readily embraced by indigenous peoples (apples, wheat and oat flours,
leavening, dairy products, eggs, etc.). [] This is a food enthusiast's
book of updated and original recipes that call for the delicious foods
gathered, hunted, fished, cultivated, cooked and enjoyed by native
peoples for centuries." They didn't eat eggs before Europeans showed
them? Original recipes that have been enjoyed for centuries... Right.
Like wild blueberry ice cream...

There are so, so many more like these...

Pastorio