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A review by laurafigueiredo
The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer, Duff Goldman
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So you are cooking a banshee stew for dinner, and you suddently realize one of your guests is a Jew. Can you serve him your delightfully cookied mythical creature?
The premise seemed so amusing.
But I'm afraid the book itself did not live up to it.
Some of the descriptions meant to be funny, and I think that even two of them made me smile.
But the dialogs on the kosherness of each animal are just too obvious -and much less silly or surprising or funny than I had expected.
Probably the best part of this little book is the cooking guide itself, which at least was rather funny.
The dialog was not the most suitable style in my humble opinion, but the idea seemed to have a lot more of work on it than the previous parts.
PS:
Those recipes refer to a "Galatian" white wine. This is probably a typo -the Albarino they mention (written Albariño in Spanish or Alvarinho in Portuguese) is a Galician white wine.
Galicia is a region in the North West of Spain, very near Portugal.
Just in case you're tempted to add it to your imaginary dish ;)
The premise seemed so amusing.
But I'm afraid the book itself did not live up to it.
Some of the descriptions meant to be funny, and I think that even two of them made me smile.
But the dialogs on the kosherness of each animal are just too obvious -and much less silly or surprising or funny than I had expected.
Probably the best part of this little book is the cooking guide itself, which at least was rather funny.
The dialog was not the most suitable style in my humble opinion, but the idea seemed to have a lot more of work on it than the previous parts.
PS:
Those recipes refer to a "Galatian" white wine. This is probably a typo -the Albarino they mention (written Albariño in Spanish or Alvarinho in Portuguese) is a Galician white wine.
Galicia is a region in the North West of Spain, very near Portugal.
Just in case you're tempted to add it to your imaginary dish ;)