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September 7th, 2007 at 12:14 am

Weird cookbooks!

I came across a list of The Worlds Top 10 Weird Cookbooks and I thought I’d share the list with you. There’s certainly some interesting stuff here! So if you’ve always wondered if you can cook on your car engine or if people really eat roadkill, bugs, or actually cook while nude the answer is yes and there’s lots of recipes to prove it!

1. “Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine,” by Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller (Villard Books, 1989, out of print). Meals on wheels, anyone? Utah’s Dian Thomas has also given directions for cooking under the hood of an automobile in some of her “Roughing It Easy” books. But given the price of gasoline nowadays, it’s probably cheaper to just use your stove.

2. “The Original Road Kill Cookbook,” by Buck Peterson (Ten Speed Press, 1987, $6.95). This one has spawned sequels such as “The International Roadkill Cookbook” and “The Totaled Roadkill Cookbook.” Yum.

3. “Eat-A-Bug Cookbook: 33 Ways to Cook Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin,” by David George Gordon (Ten Speed Press, 1998, $16.95). Don’t complain about the fly in your soup.

4. “Special Effects Cookbook,” by Michael E. Samonek (MES/FX Publishing, 1992, $9.90). Sounds like you can use this one for your kids’ science experiments.

5. “Cooking in the Nude: Playful Gourmets, the Fun and Lusty Approach to Gourmet Dining for Two,” by Stephen Cornwell & Debbie Cornwell (Primavera, 1988, $3.89). I would be very, very careful around the stove!

6. “Cooking to Kill: The Poison Cook Book,” by Ebenezer Murgatroyd & Herb Roth (Peter Pauper Press, 1951, $15). This slapstick book boasts recipes to use on spoiled brats, business rivals and strayed lovers that will “make your friends die laughing.”

7. “Wookiee Cookies: A Star Wars Cookbook,” by Robin Davis (Chronicle Books, 1998, $1695). Recipes include Yoda Soda and Princess Leia’s Danish Do’s (modeled after Leia’s famous hairdo).

8. “The Mini Ketchup Cookbook,” by Cameron Pearl (Running Press Books, 2006, $4.95). What, no fry sauce?

9. “Cooking for Cats: The Best Recipes for Felix, Orlando and the Rest,” by Elisabeth Meyer Zu Stieghorst-Kastrup (Dumonte, 2002, $6.88). Actually, it’s not that weird to cook for your pet, considering the recent tainted pet-food scare.

10. “Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies; An Epicurean Adventure Around the World,” by Jerry Hopkins & Michael Freeman (Periplus Editions, 1999, $5.99) This one gives new meaning to the term “global cuisine.”

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August 28th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

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All of the major subjects that one would study are covered including English, Math, various sciences, history, economics and students can even get help preparing for SAT and other entry level exams.

Visit the site today to learn more about TutorVista.

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March 25th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

Great discount deals at CouponChief.com

I’m not a huge shopper. Oh I do like my electronic toys and I like browsing in stores that sell musical instruments and equipment but I could do without the day to do shopping. I’m just not into crowded malls and finding parking and all that other stuff that goes along with the whole shopping ritual.

As a result of my dislike for shopping in department stores and malls I’ve started doing more of my shopping online. It’s great. I can visit online stores at whatever time of day or night that I please, find great deals that I can’t find offline and I don’t have to deal with other shoppers.

One of my increasingly favorite places to begin shopping is at CouponChief.com. I seem to find new merchant listings every time I visit and I know they have well over 1000 merchants listed in their directories already.

It’s a great site begin shopping at. You just find a merchant that you like, or maybe the type of product that you are looking for, and then browse through the various deals and coupons that are listed at CouponChief.com for the various merchants.

We have a really nice garden and we work hard to make it a really nice place to relax or entertain in each year. So I’ve been looking at the various deals that are being offered by some of the many gardening merchants at CouponChief. There’s a Gardens Alive deal that offers $20 off purchases of $40 or more, and there’s three Bloomingbulb.com coupon codes that look great too.

Whatever your shopping needs I’m sure you’ll find a great deal if you take a look at the many merchants that are listed at Couponchief.com.

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