Cooking Comically: Recipes so Easy You'll Actually Make Them by Tyler Capps
Food is a
wonderful thing. As cook books are a way to make that wonderful thing, they too
are great, except those books that simply give you a list of stuff and a list
of directions. While utilitarian, such recipes do not inspire salivating.
Cooking Comically is anything but a boring cook book.
Capps, owner
of the website cookingcomically.com, has the stated goal of provided recipes
that are easy, tasty, and cheap. He then delivers such foodly instructions in a
way that resembles comic panels, complete with a black and white, snarky stick
figure. He provides images of not only the end product, but the ingredients and
the processes too. The stick figure adds pop culture references, jokes, and
some excellent tips and explanations.
Capps’ Cooking Comically will not help you
master the art of French cooking, or Italian, or any specific style. Instead,
he aims to show the uninitiated what tasty things can be accomplished with only
a little effort. Personally, I feel
fairly accomplished in the kitchen, I know which end of the spatula to hold and
have been known to my friend and family to deliver some delectable dishes. I
still learned from this book and added some recipes and tricks to my
collection. Cooking Comically is
entertaining, delicious, and an all-around solid cookbook.
