It is my firm belief that every college student ought to have a copy of this book. Not only because it is wildly funny, but when you have sunk so low in your cooking, when you have let your flan collapse and your burgers burn, you can look at this book and say "Well, it could be worse."
Because it could be worse, friends. It could be so much worse. "How?" you ask tearfully from the ruins of what promised to be a week of wonderful meals. It could be worse if you were trying to make this:
Blogosphere, meet Jello Monster. Jello Monster, meet Blogosphere.
Cooks of all ages, take note: every kitchen ought never to produce one.
And so that's why everyone should have James Lilek's The Gallery of Regretable Food. Because even when you do screw up, you can laugh it off with Lileks' outrageously funny commentary on the terrible food stylings of the 1950s and console yourself with the idea that however badly your latest project turned out, at least you weren't encasing whatever it was in Jello.
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Haven't gotten enough funnies from the first go-round? Have no fear! Gastroanomalies is here! And it's just as funny as its predecessor.
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Yay! That's such a good book. Unfortunately, seeing as I am a broke college student, I will not be buying it. Also, I feel like if boredom ever ensues, encasing something in jello is just the thing to do (Like in The Office; the only thing I found funny in that show).
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