{"id":101,"date":"2008-12-19T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:51:23","slug":"the_butch_cook_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the_butch_cook_book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butch Cook Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/244111662\"><em>The Butch Cook Book.<\/em> Edited by Lee Lynch, Nel Ward, and Sue Hardesty. Newport, OR: TRP Cookbooks, 2008. 216 p. Paperback. ISBN: 9780979270109. $18.95<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-280\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"TheButchCookBook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/TheButchCookBook1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Butch Cook Book\" width=\"269\" height=\"206\" \/>The Butch Cook Book<\/em> is a compilation of recipes from the kitchens of many butch Lesbians, and covers a complete range of foods, from hors d&#8217;oeuvres to desserts. Or, to use the butch terms: beginnings to sweet talk. There are also recipes for drinks, pet foods, and food for &#8220;the morning after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recipes themselves are easy to follow and include basics (Hummus) and comfort foods (Mac and Cheese), to complicated entrees and desserts, including a good selection of meat and vegetarian dishes to satisfy the most demanding butch diner.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered throughout the cookbook are articles on and about butch history, along with other bits and pieces of amusing and useful information. There is a biography for each of the contributors and each chapter heading has a line drawing involving food and power tools. Some of the drawings were rather odd, so because I was unsure of what power tools have to do with cooking, I contacted one of the authors, Nel Ward, and asked why. Her succinct answer: &#8220;it&#8217;s a butch thing.&#8221; So find those power tools and dig out that blender and serve up a dinner from <em>The Butch Cook Book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I recommend this book for GLBT archives and public libraries, in addition to cookbook collectors within the GLBT community.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Norman Eriksen<br \/>\nAssistant Division Manager<br \/>\nLanguages Literature and Fiction<br \/>\nBrooklyn Public Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Butch Cook Book. Edited by Lee Lynch, Nel Ward, and Sue Hardesty. Newport, OR: TRP Cookbooks, 2008. 216 p. Paperback. ISBN: 9780979270109. $18.95 The Butch Cook Book is a compilation of recipes from the kitchens of many butch Lesbians, and covers a complete range of foods, from hors d&#8217;oeuvres to desserts. Or, to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}