Dare You to Try It! 10 Weird Cookbooks
By: Andie Mitchell
Published: February 9, 2011

Step out of your cooking comfort zone and try some of the unique recipes (and ingredients!) from this list of wacky cookbooks. Who knows, you might even be inspired to create your own twisted recipe!

1. The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More by Charles T. Bourland, Gregory L. Vogt
Space ships contain years of supply of breakfasts, snacks, soups, salads, sandwiches, vegetables (yes!), desserts, and drinks. Learn what astronauts really eat in outer space and how you can create those meals at home!

2. Critter Cuisine by Mary A. Clayton
If you really want something new, cook with what you find in your own backyard! This unique book is full of recipes using bugs, rodents, and other backyard animals.

3. The Original Road Kill Cookbook by Buck Peterson and J. Angus Mclean3
Hate wasting food? Learn the basics of cooking those dead critters you find on the side of the road.

4. Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller
Bring out your resourceful side and save time by cooking food while you drive. Wrap your food in tin foil, wedge it next to your engine, and hit the road!

5. The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory – More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Muggles and Wizards by Dinah Bucholz
Bring life to those mouthwatering foods you read about in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Bake a Cauldron Cake, drink pumpkin juice or taste Harry Potter’s favorite dessert – Treacle Tart!

6. The Dracula Cookbook of Blood by Ardin C. Price
Vampires aren't the only ones drinking blood.  Read about the unique ways animal blood is cooked around the world.

7. The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times by Albert Bates
A handbook full of practical advice, recipes, and new ideas about environmental conservation.

8. Cooking to Kill: The Poison Cook-book by Ebenezer Murgatroyd and Herb Roth
This hilarious comic book is written and illustrated with recipes for murder like "Stewed and Potted Mother-in-Law."

9. Eat-a-bug Cookbook: 33 Ways to Cook Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes and Their Kin by David George Gordon
Did you know crickets are rich in calcium, termites are loaded with iron, and that cockroaches taste like shrimp? See how these protein-rich bugs are used in cuisines throughout the world.

10. The Iguana Cookbook, Save Florida Eat an Iguana by George M. Cera
In Florida, lizards can be pets, pests, and... dinner? George Cera’s light and funny book shares different ways to cook iguanas and save Florida in the process.
Featured Image by Flickr photo user: KahunaGirl
-Article researched and co-written by Christine Arteta

Comments:
Wendy Perry

I actually have Manifold Destiny and have cooked a few meals under the hood!  First time was trip to the mountains... folks would flip out when we'd pull up at gas pumps, and one in the truck was pump'n gas and I was check'n my pineapple bacon maple baked ham!  I've always aspired to do a newer version, but always just forget when i take a trip...on my Bucket List for sure!
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cockroaches taste like shrimp?