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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To The Kitchen...

Fortunately I had help. Characters are a novelist's imaginary friends -- well, at least mine are -- and so it was the easiest thing in the world to hand over the project to Brecken Kendall, the protagonist of The Shoggoth Concerto and The Nyogtha Variations, who loves to cook when she's not pursuing her career as a composer of neo-Baroque music. She duly dictated a cookbook which contains most of the dishes featured in my tentacle novels, from cheese polenta all the way to exotica such as authentic pirate salmagundi (she got the recipe for that from Toby Gilman, of course).
I should probably mention that all the recipes in this book are real, and none calls for ingredients you can't get this side of the plateau of Leng. Since Brecken and I share the conviction that food should be cheap, tasty, filling, and not especially complicated to make, this is also not the kind of cookbook that's meant to permit members of the overprivileged classes to show off how much money and leisure they have by wasting a lot of both turning out desperately precious yuppie chow. It's geared toward people (like Brecken, and in my younger days, me) who don't have a lot of money or a lot of time to spare, and still want to eat well.
So if you're wondering what to feed the shoggoth who's unexpectedly shown up in your kitchenette, or simply want to have plenty of tasty meals to serve and eat while you're waiting for Great Cthulhu to rise from the sea, here you go. The current release date is August 18, and you can order your copy in advance here.
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(Anonymous) 2021-07-20 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)Greetings,
Nachtgurke
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As a teaser
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Just happened across this and thought you and other readers might enjoy.
Rita
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(Anonymous) 2021-07-21 12:24 am (UTC)(link)-Dylan
What fun!
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(Anonymous) 2021-07-21 03:27 am (UTC)(link)"Brecken Kendall... edited by John Michael Greer"
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(Anonymous) 2021-07-21 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)Jon
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I gotta agree
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(Anonymous) 2021-07-22 10:46 am (UTC)(link)I really hope it's got the sauces that the Innsmouth fishdishes are dipped in, these made me curious.
Btw: I really enjoyed how you tried to describe the insulting coffee in the barque with every time a new phrase!
Another btw: I'm hoping that the salmagundi has ginger, because the one and only time I went in a live roleplaying sailingtrip (lots of pirates and other half-squids) they had a curry with ginger as first meal because it's supposed to help with sea-sickness, which for me it did.
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(Anonymous) 2021-08-22 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)Any update on when this will ship?
Thanks for everything!
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