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The Zombie Cookbook
Wokking Dead By Karina L. Fabian
It’s war and love when zombies invade a Korean restaurant.
Secret Ingredient by Lisa Haselton
There’s a zombie in the kitchen! That may be the case, but when spaghetti-eating zombie Clete takes a job as the assistant chef at the L-Double-J ranch, he’s not the one you need to work out for. It’s a tale of catering and culinary revenge. Would you have added the secret ingredient?
A Zombie Named Clete By Lisa Haselton
A little poem in honor of the twice-deceased Clete. Was this on his tombstone, or did he carry a copy in his pocket?
Beer-Battered Zombie with Butternut Squash By Becca Butcher
What’s a cookbook without a recipe? Not for the faint of stomach, though with a few substitutions, it might actually make a good meal. (Not everyone’s a fan of squash, after all.)
The Right Recipe By Lin Neiswender
Zombie culinary aficionados had better watch out! The zombies are not pleased to be eaten, as the editor of the Zombie Cookbookery Publications discovers in this tale of turnabout-is-fair-play.
Quick & Easy Zombie Pastie by Kate Sender
A no frills, 4-ingredient full course meal will satisfy both your Zombie’s cravings and nutritional needs.
Express Cuisine by Dawn Marshallsay
Zombie attack on a speeding train--is there really any escape? Fight, hide, jump--none of it can stop you from becoming...Express Cuisine.
Brain Food By Carla Girtman
Ah, domestic zombie bliss! It’s the Undead Cleavers mixed in with a little Arsenic and Old Lace. Can’t tell you much about this story except that the ending will surprise you as much as it did Thelma!
Brain Salad for Dummies by Scott Virtes
The practical guide for that zombie invasion. Your own little zombie poison recipe, combined with practical advice. As Scott says--Follow his advice and you might get enough sleep at night to stay two steps ahead.
A Zombie’s APB By Cinsearae Santiago
A zombie decides to give a ‘Hear ye, hear ye!’ to the human race after getting fed up with the lack of ‘good food’ these days.
My Big Fat Zombie Wedding by Karina Fabian
So what if he’s undead? That won’t not keep Vida from marrying her true love--and neither will challenges from prejudice to unusual dietary needs stop the wedding of the decade!
It’s war and love when zombies invade a Korean restaurant.
Secret Ingredient by Lisa Haselton
There’s a zombie in the kitchen! That may be the case, but when spaghetti-eating zombie Clete takes a job as the assistant chef at the L-Double-J ranch, he’s not the one you need to work out for. It’s a tale of catering and culinary revenge. Would you have added the secret ingredient?
A Zombie Named Clete By Lisa Haselton
A little poem in honor of the twice-deceased Clete. Was this on his tombstone, or did he carry a copy in his pocket?
Beer-Battered Zombie with Butternut Squash By Becca Butcher
What’s a cookbook without a recipe? Not for the faint of stomach, though with a few substitutions, it might actually make a good meal. (Not everyone’s a fan of squash, after all.)
The Right Recipe By Lin Neiswender
Zombie culinary aficionados had better watch out! The zombies are not pleased to be eaten, as the editor of the Zombie Cookbookery Publications discovers in this tale of turnabout-is-fair-play.
Quick & Easy Zombie Pastie by Kate Sender
A no frills, 4-ingredient full course meal will satisfy both your Zombie’s cravings and nutritional needs.
Express Cuisine by Dawn Marshallsay
Zombie attack on a speeding train--is there really any escape? Fight, hide, jump--none of it can stop you from becoming...Express Cuisine.
Brain Food By Carla Girtman
Ah, domestic zombie bliss! It’s the Undead Cleavers mixed in with a little Arsenic and Old Lace. Can’t tell you much about this story except that the ending will surprise you as much as it did Thelma!
Brain Salad for Dummies by Scott Virtes
The practical guide for that zombie invasion. Your own little zombie poison recipe, combined with practical advice. As Scott says--Follow his advice and you might get enough sleep at night to stay two steps ahead.
A Zombie’s APB By Cinsearae Santiago
A zombie decides to give a ‘Hear ye, hear ye!’ to the human race after getting fed up with the lack of ‘good food’ these days.
My Big Fat Zombie Wedding by Karina Fabian
So what if he’s undead? That won’t not keep Vida from marrying her true love--and neither will challenges from prejudice to unusual dietary needs stop the wedding of the decade!
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70 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2009
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Kim Richards
31 books151 followersKim Richards lives in Northern California with her husband and pets. She loves the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Her hobbies include reading, writing, sewing, weaving, bellydancing, gardening, and listening to music.
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October 6, 2009
I once had a friend tell me that, when evaluating cookbooks, it's important to not expect every recipe to be of interest to you, and that there can be a cookbook that you love that you ignore half of. As long as there were a few recipes in that cookbook that you would not only use and love, but that you would reuse for years to come, then the whole book was worth getting.
I think that the same logic can be applied, to an extent, to short story collections. The short story, as a format, has undergone a bit of a fall from grace in the past few decades, which is unfortunate, because it's a unique type of story that allows for a lot of variety and experimentalism that you won't necessarily get from novels. I think that, if people approached short story collections the same way they approach cookbooks, they'd enjoy them significantly more.
All that brings us to The Zombie Cookbook, a new short story collection from Damnation Books. As the title might suggest, it's not the most serious of story collections; a lot of the stories here walk the line between horror and comedy. There's a long tradition of that within zombie literature, stretching back to movies like Return of the Living Dead (which was the origin of the "bbbrrraaaaaiiiinnsss" zombie meme) and Dead Alive. For someone who's a long-time fan of zombie literature in print or film, this collection doesn't necessarily break any new ground, but it does provide a solid entry in that tradition.
The theme of the collection, crossing zombie stories with food, is a logical connection, and one that you would think would be fairly restrictive, but there's a surprising amount of variety among the eleven stories and poems included in the collection. I hadn't heard of any of the authors in the collection prior to reading it, but I'll definitely be checking some off these authors out in the future, as there are some who really manage to take the concept and make it their own.
As I said with the recipe book analogy, I didn't enjoy every single story in this collection, but that's okay; not everything in the cookbook has to be to everyone's taste, and even the ones that I didn't particularly enjoy were well-written. I'm sure they'll have a lot of fans in their own right. When the collection hits its hight points, though, in stories like The Right Recipe and My Big Fat Zombie Wedding, you end up discovering some short stories that have a lot of depth and world-building done to them in addition to the puns and slapstick humour that pepper the book.
In addition to the stories, the Zombie Cookbook is also really nicely packaged. The cover and interior artwork are beautiful, and nicely accent the stories that they're interspersed with. A few of the stories even include recipes for zombie cooks, which helps sell the concept of the book as well. If you're a fan of zombie books or horror comedy, it's definitely worth checking out at http://www.zombiecookbook.net. Both e-book and print versions are available.
I think that the same logic can be applied, to an extent, to short story collections. The short story, as a format, has undergone a bit of a fall from grace in the past few decades, which is unfortunate, because it's a unique type of story that allows for a lot of variety and experimentalism that you won't necessarily get from novels. I think that, if people approached short story collections the same way they approach cookbooks, they'd enjoy them significantly more.
All that brings us to The Zombie Cookbook, a new short story collection from Damnation Books. As the title might suggest, it's not the most serious of story collections; a lot of the stories here walk the line between horror and comedy. There's a long tradition of that within zombie literature, stretching back to movies like Return of the Living Dead (which was the origin of the "bbbrrraaaaaiiiinnsss" zombie meme) and Dead Alive. For someone who's a long-time fan of zombie literature in print or film, this collection doesn't necessarily break any new ground, but it does provide a solid entry in that tradition.
The theme of the collection, crossing zombie stories with food, is a logical connection, and one that you would think would be fairly restrictive, but there's a surprising amount of variety among the eleven stories and poems included in the collection. I hadn't heard of any of the authors in the collection prior to reading it, but I'll definitely be checking some off these authors out in the future, as there are some who really manage to take the concept and make it their own.
As I said with the recipe book analogy, I didn't enjoy every single story in this collection, but that's okay; not everything in the cookbook has to be to everyone's taste, and even the ones that I didn't particularly enjoy were well-written. I'm sure they'll have a lot of fans in their own right. When the collection hits its hight points, though, in stories like The Right Recipe and My Big Fat Zombie Wedding, you end up discovering some short stories that have a lot of depth and world-building done to them in addition to the puns and slapstick humour that pepper the book.
In addition to the stories, the Zombie Cookbook is also really nicely packaged. The cover and interior artwork are beautiful, and nicely accent the stories that they're interspersed with. A few of the stories even include recipes for zombie cooks, which helps sell the concept of the book as well. If you're a fan of zombie books or horror comedy, it's definitely worth checking out at http://www.zombiecookbook.net. Both e-book and print versions are available.
October 17, 2009
The Zombie Cookbook:
New recipes bring great flavor to a dead subject
Rating: 4.8 of 5 panic attacks
The world has changed its view on the monsters of yesteryear. Women now swoon over vampires and werewolves are the heroes of their own tales; the reader sympathizes with these characters instead of fearing and wishing them dead. It seems there is only one constant in modern monsters: Zombies are zombies are zombies. And their hungry!
But if that is to be true, how does the world of zombies survive without becoming completely boring to the readers? Though a new title such as The Zombie Cookbook helps, what really keeps the idea of zombies “fresh” in the mind of readers around the globe is its collection of stories, poems, sketches and recipes which orbit around a subject everyone can sink their teeth into: Food!
“It goes to show that some cliché’s never die,” said Karina Fabian, author of Cookbook tales My Big Fat Zombie Wedding and Wokking Dead.
Fabian, who disagrees that the subject of zombies seems to be taboo in the publishing world, said that titles such as Pride Prejudice and Zombies and World War Z—The Zombie Survival guide have helped to bring the “dead” subject back to life. Though she said she’s not looking at changing the readers’ perceptions of zombies, “What I hope to give the world of zombies…a good, long laugh. That gives me time to run away!”
But readers should not run away from The Zombie Cookbook. Within its pages are stories such as:
-Secret Ingredient—There’s a zombie in the kitchen! That may be the case, but when spaghetti-eating zombie Clete takes a job as the assistant chef at the L-Double-J ranch, he’s not the one you need to watch out for. It’s a tale of catering and culinary revenge. Would you have added the secret ingredient?
-Express Cuisine— Zombie attack on a speeding train--is there really any escape? Fight, hide, jump--none of it can stop you from becoming...Express Cuisine.
-Brain Food— Ah, domestic zombie bliss! It’s the Undead Cleavers mixed in with a little Arsenic and Old Lace. Can’t tell you much about this story except that the ending will surprise you as much as it did Thelma!
And many others.
Each story, recipe and poem is well placed. The stories have full characters that readers can relate to and a pace that keeps the reader moving. Before too long the reader is lead through the 84 pages as if no time has passed at all.
I didn’t become a fanatic of zombies until my wife began her fascination with them. Soon after, zombies began popping up all over the place and now we have a cookbook to accompany the pride and prejudice, giving us something to munch on while making our way through the various survival guides and Resident Evil games. To sum up my impression of The Zombie Cookbook (Damnation Books, September 2009) is six simple words: I can’t wait to see more!
New recipes bring great flavor to a dead subject
Rating: 4.8 of 5 panic attacks
The world has changed its view on the monsters of yesteryear. Women now swoon over vampires and werewolves are the heroes of their own tales; the reader sympathizes with these characters instead of fearing and wishing them dead. It seems there is only one constant in modern monsters: Zombies are zombies are zombies. And their hungry!
But if that is to be true, how does the world of zombies survive without becoming completely boring to the readers? Though a new title such as The Zombie Cookbook helps, what really keeps the idea of zombies “fresh” in the mind of readers around the globe is its collection of stories, poems, sketches and recipes which orbit around a subject everyone can sink their teeth into: Food!
“It goes to show that some cliché’s never die,” said Karina Fabian, author of Cookbook tales My Big Fat Zombie Wedding and Wokking Dead.
Fabian, who disagrees that the subject of zombies seems to be taboo in the publishing world, said that titles such as Pride Prejudice and Zombies and World War Z—The Zombie Survival guide have helped to bring the “dead” subject back to life. Though she said she’s not looking at changing the readers’ perceptions of zombies, “What I hope to give the world of zombies…a good, long laugh. That gives me time to run away!”
But readers should not run away from The Zombie Cookbook. Within its pages are stories such as:
-Secret Ingredient—There’s a zombie in the kitchen! That may be the case, but when spaghetti-eating zombie Clete takes a job as the assistant chef at the L-Double-J ranch, he’s not the one you need to watch out for. It’s a tale of catering and culinary revenge. Would you have added the secret ingredient?
-Express Cuisine— Zombie attack on a speeding train--is there really any escape? Fight, hide, jump--none of it can stop you from becoming...Express Cuisine.
-Brain Food— Ah, domestic zombie bliss! It’s the Undead Cleavers mixed in with a little Arsenic and Old Lace. Can’t tell you much about this story except that the ending will surprise you as much as it did Thelma!
And many others.
Each story, recipe and poem is well placed. The stories have full characters that readers can relate to and a pace that keeps the reader moving. Before too long the reader is lead through the 84 pages as if no time has passed at all.
I didn’t become a fanatic of zombies until my wife began her fascination with them. Soon after, zombies began popping up all over the place and now we have a cookbook to accompany the pride and prejudice, giving us something to munch on while making our way through the various survival guides and Resident Evil games. To sum up my impression of The Zombie Cookbook (Damnation Books, September 2009) is six simple words: I can’t wait to see more!
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May 12, 2010The Zombie Cookbook is an enjoyable collection of short stories by a variety of authors. Some of my personal favorites include "A Zombie's APB", by Cinsearae Santiago, the story of a disgruntled zombie; "Secret Ingredient", by Lisa Haselton, in which a husband hires on a zombie to help his wife run her restaurant; and "My Big Fat Zombie Wedding", by Karina Fabian, which tells a story of a girl falling in love with a zombie and trying to gain her family's acceptance of the situation. In addition to the short stories, several pieces of zombie artwork are included, and recipes are sprinkled within for the daring reader to use their brains to make, literally. The Zombie Cookbook is a must-have for zombie enthusiasts, and also a welcome addition to the collections of all horror fans. I would recommend it for all library collections.
Contents:
Forward by members of the metal band, The Zombie Cookbook.
Wokking Dead By Karina L. Fabian
Secret Ingredient by Lisa Haselton
A Zombie Named Clete By Lisa Haselton
Beer-Battered Zombie with Butternut Squash By Becca Butcher
The Right Recipe By Lin Neiswender
Quick & Easy Zombie Pastie by Kate Sender
Express Cuisine by Dawn Marshallsay
Brain Food By Carla Girtman
Brain Salad for Dummies by Scott Virtes
A Zombie’s APB By Cinsearae Santiago
My Big Fat Zombie Wedding by Karina Fabian
Review by Rhonda Wilson
Contents:
Forward by members of the metal band, The Zombie Cookbook.
Wokking Dead By Karina L. Fabian
Secret Ingredient by Lisa Haselton
A Zombie Named Clete By Lisa Haselton
Beer-Battered Zombie with Butternut Squash By Becca Butcher
The Right Recipe By Lin Neiswender
Quick & Easy Zombie Pastie by Kate Sender
Express Cuisine by Dawn Marshallsay
Brain Food By Carla Girtman
Brain Salad for Dummies by Scott Virtes
A Zombie’s APB By Cinsearae Santiago
My Big Fat Zombie Wedding by Karina Fabian
Review by Rhonda Wilson
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March 25, 2010Love zombies, horror and comedy? You'll have fun with this collection of hilarious zombie stories from DAMNATION BOOKS!
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reviews, trailer and link to official TZC website are at
http://bloodtouch.webs.com/wholoveszo...
October 30, 2009
This is a fun anthology of short stories, poems and recipes about cooking zombies or cooking with zombies. Interior art is creepy.
August 7, 2010
Not really in my kitchen, however it is a great kaffe table book, even if one doesn't drink kaffe. A bit of sensoria pate, uh.. I mean pâté to finger through while you wait. :p
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