This is a very peculiar book indeed, which readers will either find
utterly repulsive or wildly, strangely funny. It purports to be the
autobiography of Orlando Crispe, gourmand and cannibal, and tells
of his erotic adventures in search of new culinary experiences.
When it is realized that the preparation of his recipies (and many
of them are given) involves the liquids which result from acts of
sodomy, masturbation, urination, fellatio and other sexual
enactments, it will be clear that this book is for a minority
taste. While it is fair to say that it may well appeal to fans of
his previous, almost equally strange book Memoirs of a Gnostic
Dwarf, it is equally fair to say that it will certainly appal those
who come to it in the expectation of recipies which might bear any
resemblance to those of our own dear Elizabeth David. (Kirkus UK)
This is a cookbook for the millennium: an extravagant, shameless
and highly entertaining work that will change the course of
contemporary cuisine, it takes cooking out of the kitchen and away
from the TV screens, and puts it where it deserves to be: in the
philosophy section alongside Plato and other great culinary
masters. The notorious Thursday Club reveals its culinary secrets
as the reader is invited to take part in its annual banquet. The
meal is lavish, its contents unique, the taste out of this world.
It is not just a meal but a philosophical statement. It is not to
be eaten, but absorbed into the body. Orlando Crispe demonstrates
the power of food on human behavior and how it can incite both love
and revulsion. And no detail of preparation is too insignificant or
too outre to be revealed: Beef Stock au Orlando Crispe: Marinate
the carcass of a cow in a hot-water bath for several hours with its
chef, so that the juices of the one can mingle with that of the
other.
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