An engaging novelty work that pairs simple recipes with familiar rock songs.
The music of the Rolling Stones forms the centerpiece of this cookbook.
The subtitle of this volume, “Let’s Spend the Bite Together,” is only the first of many culinary puns that season this eclectic collection of recipes with spicy, sometimes-groanworthy humor. From Paint It Black…Bean Hummus to Sympathy for the Devil’s Food Cake, the quirky work blends party food ideas with beguiling bits of trivia about the Stones’ songs and career. Cherry Oh Baby provides a recipe for cherry tomatoes stuffed with a blue cheese-horseradish mixture while noting the influence of reggae on the group when the song of the same name was produced. I Wanna Be Your Flan gives a basic version of the Spanish dessert paired with a comparison of the Stones and the Beatles that notes that the former’s rendition of the song “I Wanna Be Your Man” has elements of both bands’ styles. The recipes are not always inspired—Shake Your Chips, which consists of cream cheese, salsa, and some grated cheese baked in an oven, produces a dip that is both watery and gummy, and Rocks Off comprises just bourbon and Coke over ice. But Nanker Phelge, named for an early Stones pseudonym, and Jumpin’ Jack Mash are recipes for classic, British working-class dishes, which, though basic, may be new to American tastes and go well with the salty Stones repertoire. Nanker Phelge presents readers with an English pub staple: the “Ploughman’s Lunch,” which here includes cheese, cold meat, crusty bread (“and sometimes butter”), Branston pickle (or chutney), pickled or green onion (or both), and fruit or vegetable. Jumpin’ Jack Mash provides instructions for making a hearty meal featuring bangers (sausage), bacon, onions, and mashed potatoes. The fun facts about the band that Stagg (co-author: Recipe Records: A Culinary Tribute to the Beatles, 2013) and debut authors Jones and Ritterling supply are dependably entertaining and may offer something new to even die-hard fans.
An engaging novelty work that pairs simple recipes with familiar rock songs.Pub Date: Aug. 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-692-91938-5
Page Count: 66
Publisher: Recipe Records
Review Posted Online: Dec. 6, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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