Book Reviews

Title: The Arab Table

Author: May S. Bsisu

Number of Recipes: more than 150

Recipe Breadth: 4.5

Recipe Quality (of those tested): 4

Extra Information: 4

Style: 4

Non-Meat Recipes: more than 50%

Overall Rating: 4.5

Category: cookbook, ethnic food

Availability: Used

• Title: Gastronaut
• Author: Stefan Gates
• Writing Quality: 4
• Humor: 5
• Informative: 3
• Categories: food humor, food history, recipes
• Availability: both new and used

Stefan Gates's Gastronaut is a foray into the extreme and ridiculous of cooking. Starting where Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything leaves off, Stefan explores only highly unusual foods and meals, including gold leaf, Bacchanalian orgies, recreating the Last Supper, odd pork parts, and a disturbing fixation with cannibalism.  This is not really a book to cook from; it is a book to read and laugh out loud.