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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
This cracked me up. Hilarious pictures, and the crafts and recipes are all retro trash - in a good and reminiscent way! A combination of actual advice and comedic "advice."
The recipes all seem real (I thought they were going to be more joke-y, like an "Elephant Stew" type of thing) - although they ARE the type of recipes hastily scrawled on four lines of an index card that you find glued by unidentifiable food-stuffs to the bottom of a drawer in your gramma's house.
Also, this book helped me to make a new friend - the library clerk in my current city. He has only ever made weird grunting sounds and avoids eye contact when checking my material out, but when I handed him this book, he looked me straight in the eye and said, "I LOVE Amy Sedaris. I love her." If I ever host a party based on the hospitality quidelines of this book, I will totally invite him.
The recipes all seem real (I thought they were going to be more joke-y, like an "Elephant Stew" type of thing) - although they ARE the type of recipes hastily scrawled on four lines of an index card that you find glued by unidentifiable food-stuffs to the bottom of a drawer in your gramma's house.
Also, this book helped me to make a new friend - the library clerk in my current city. He has only ever made weird grunting sounds and avoids eye contact when checking my material out, but when I handed him this book, he looked me straight in the eye and said, "I LOVE Amy Sedaris. I love her." If I ever host a party based on the hospitality quidelines of this book, I will totally invite him.
I do love Amy Sedaris, but I'm just sort of flipping through the book... I wish there were more of her humour!
So hillarious as well as full of easy and good recipes. Hell, who doesn't like 4 cheeseball options?
Freakin' crack up! Amy Sedaris is my new favorite person and even though I have no desire to eat a meatloaf wreath, I can't get enough of her photos of them. Also, "eye burrito" made me bust up in a public place and I didn't even care because it was so funny. If I was ever invited to a home with a crepe paper lobster on the door with a sign saying, "Pinch me! It's TGIF!" I would simply move in and never leave.
I mean, it's a weird book. This is a cookbook, sort of? But like a comedy cookbook that's meant to sound like it was written by a hypomanic alcoholic rabbit-lady with delusions of domestic godliness. Which, being familiar with Amy's work, maybe it actually was? Which is just what I liked about it.
From the bizarre drawings and diagrams, half-baked instructions that sound like something your drunk aunt texted to you that you now have to figure out, to totally socially inappropriate (and yet often brutally honest) advice about sensitive social situations... It's great at what it's trying to do.
For example, the recipe for Steamed Carrots: "Put carrots in a steamer and steam." The end!
Other recipes are more complex but will include vagaries like "I don't know what temperature," or "Until it looks like it's supposed to."
From the bizarre drawings and diagrams, half-baked instructions that sound like something your drunk aunt texted to you that you now have to figure out, to totally socially inappropriate (and yet often brutally honest) advice about sensitive social situations... It's great at what it's trying to do.
For example, the recipe for Steamed Carrots: "Put carrots in a steamer and steam." The end!
Other recipes are more complex but will include vagaries like "I don't know what temperature," or "Until it looks like it's supposed to."
Not nearly as good as the Crafts for Poor People book, but entertaining nonetheless.
Amy Sedaris is so funny. And I am going to have to try some of these recipes. Maybe I will make a fake cake. Ha.
Parts of this were hysterical, though some of it was a little too strange-- see craft section. The visual content consisted of cheesy Better Homes & Gardens recipe snapshots circa 1970. I really love Davis Sedaris so I thought since the two were raised int he same household I'd enjoy Amy just as much... but as my rating shows it was just ok.
This was light and funny, making for a good audiobook to listen to in my car.
I have used this book so much that the binding is broken in two. Between the hilarity there are some really great recipes.