Want to eat like your favorite knife-wielding zombie killer a la The Walking Dead? Or cook a sensual meal divine enough to seduce your own Christian Grey? Parody cookbooks are alive and well and, unlike their tongue-in-cheek delivery, might just hold the perfect understated recipe for any occasion — if you know where to look.
50 Shades of Chicken (or Kale. Or Bacon.): In the afterglow of the unprecedented success of the sultry 50 Shades of Grey, several cookbook authors realized there's nothing sexier than cooking. Whether you chose to prepare Mustard-Spanked Chicken or go for your friend with (health) benefits, kale, these books will keep you hot — in the kitchen. After all, the recipes are "bound to please." See what they did there?
The Snacking Dead: With only a few short weeks until The Walking Dead comes back on air, it's time to recondition yourselves for post-apocalyptic living. The Snacking Dead is packed with recipes for cooking under pressure and a love story that reminds you there's more than one kind of appetite. (Is it any surprise that it was written by the same masterminds behind 50 Shades of Chicken?)
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Tequila Mockingbird: For those of you with more highbrow sensibilities, you can enjoy a tippler in the style of timeless classics with commentary on your favorite members of the canon. So pull up a table and grab some friends from your literary circle, you'll need them to help you finish off The Pitcher of Dorian Grey Goose.
Martha Stuart's Better than You at Entertaining: This irreverent parody more than nods at the domestic goddess and her penchant for (over)planning every occasion (yes, she is walking on water on the book cover). But where does the brunt of the joke really lie — on Martha or on our own inability to follow her instructions? Either way, if you're not able to bake a 10-tier cake from scratch the morning of your wedding, you better just step out of the kitchen.
The North Beach Diet: Week one of the new year has ended, and with it some of our new diets. If you've tried them all with lackluster results, it might be time to strike out for North Beach, where the food is plentiful and decadent. We have a feeling it will be easy to wake up early to do Pie-lates.
Know any other great parody cookbooks out there? Do you actually use them for the recipes?
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Linnea Zielinski is an SEO and content strategist specializing in nutrition, wellness, food, and fitness. She was previously the site director at Eat This, Not That! and her writing has appeared on MSN, The Huffington Post, Yahoo Health, Refinery29, and Serious Eats. She prefers weight lifting to cardio, swears by CBD massages and dry shampoo, and blogs about living a drama-free life in her spare time.
