The Prison Cookbook

From The Big House To Your House is a new cookbook with about two hundred recipes for you and your family. Oh… did I say family? I meant fellow inmates.

The cookbook is brought to us by female prisoners at the Mountain View Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Equipped with just a hot pot and limited food items from the commissary, the women recipe-tested items such as Frito pie, peach habanero salsa, and a faux baked potato made from re-hydrated potato chips.

Although some of the recipe’s actual edibility comes into question, they are certainly creative, and could come in handy if you find yourself in a bind — or if you’re going off to college.

[link, via Incredible Things]

The Hungover Cookbook Is Here To Help

Although we’re not sure that anyone feels like cooking after an especially brutal night, The Hungover Cookbook is here to help. Going beyond bacon, aspirin, and Gatorade, the recipes in the cookbook will not only help you to survive the day after, but will actually categorize your level of hurt, and offer the best course of action.

It will even help you to determine, through a series of mind games, if you’re genuinely hungover or still drunk. In which case the only recipe is more drinky.

[buy, via The Awesomer]

They Don’t Make Cookbooks Like They Used To

Discovered by Russell Jones and covered on his blog, Balanced Recipes by Pillsbury is a vintage 1933 recipe book. Made from stamped aluminum, recipes could be protected from the elements or small bomb attacks.

Great for those who take their recipes seriously — even if it’s for something called Thimble Anchovy Biscuits.

[link, via HuffPo]

Picture Cook: Using Illustrations as Recipes

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For those who enjoy cooking more than reading, Picture Cook by Katie Shelly is another collection of recipes that uses illustrations in lieu of words, or boring instruction.

According to Shelly, “The following recipes are not intended as precise culinary blueprints. Instead they are meant to inspire experimentation, improvisation, and play in the kitchen.”

Something Foodiggity is totally on board with… Down with words!

[Picture Cook, via Laughing Squid]