Gastronaut book
Full contents list
The Gastronaut’s Toolbox
1. Let Them Eat Gold
2. Teaching Grandmothers to Suck Eggs
3. How to Make your own Moonshine
4. A Brief History of Washing-Up
5. How to Make your own Biltong
6. How to make our own cheese
7. How to make Margarine
8. A Biscuit-tin Smokery
Adventures in Dining
1. The Last Supper and other Memorable Meals: How to make your dinner party go down in history
2. The Last Supper
3. How to Stage a Bacchanalian Orgy in the Comfort of Your Own Home
4. Why Not Eat Insects?
5. How Britain Lost its Culinary Edge: Clapshot, Fitless Cock and Wet Nelly |
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Food and the body
1. Our Secret Cannibal Desires
2. A personal journey into Cannibalism
3. Cannibal Recipes
4. The Human Harvest.
5. Aphrodisiacs: a Lothario Cuisine
6. Flatulence: How to Maximise Your Windpower
7. A Personal Journey into Extreme Flatulence
8. Physiological Fun – The Stranger effects of food
9. A note on Music & Food Matching (and Hungarian Tokaji)
RECIPES
Level One: Entry Level Exhibitionism for the Romantic
1. Bum Sandwich
2. Cooking with aftershave
3. Red & White soup
4. Chicken-Foot Stew
5. Mumbled Mushrooms
6. Homemade Gravlax
7. Smug Homemaker Iced Pea & Lemongrass Soup
8. King Edward’s Chippenham Cheese Savoury
9. Laverbread
10. Mackerel Tartare
11. Heartbreakers: Elvis’s Deep-Fried Peanut Butter sandwich
12. Buckinghamshire Bacon Badger
13. Nettle Haggis
14. Rabbit Pie
15. Gruel
16. Lumpydick
17. Monkey Gland Steak
18. Frumenty
19. Clapshot
20. Carpetbagger steaks
21. Interactive Pizza Engineering
22. Picasso’s Poussin
23. Hasty Pudding
24. Flummery
25. Andy Warhol’s Chocolate Balls– check legal/clearance
26. How to Deep-fry a Mars Bar
27. Toffee Fondue |
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Level Two: Intermediate Adventures for the Bold & the Brave
1. Fish sperm crepes
2. Cow Heel Soup
3. Mock Turtle soup
4. Sea Urchin Gonads
5. The World’s oldest recipes:
Stuffed dormouse, kid stew and Amursanu-pigeon broth
6. Cooking with Insects #1: Grasshoppers, Locusts & Crickets
7. Cooking with Insects #2: Woodlice
8. Cooking with Insects #3: Termites
9. Frogs 1 – Frogs’ legs
10. Frogs 2 – Frog Sauce (V)
11. Testicles (Trimalchio)
12. Rhinoceros Soup
13. Drisheen (Irish Blood Cake)
14. Ears
15. 14th Century Blancmange
16. Stargazey Pie
17. Stuffed Fish Heads
18. Pigeon Pie
19. Reindeer Stew
20. Stone, Stepladder & Bucket Cream
Level Three: Grand Projet Feasts for Men & Women of Destiny
1. Headcheese
2. Suckling pig
3. Turducken 3-bird roast for a Gastronautical Yule
4. Imu/Hangi (Pit-cooked pig/lamb)
5. Brillat-Savarin’s Truffled Turkey
6. Peruvian skin-on Guinea pig
A Beginners Guide to Gastronautics
Seasonal Oddments
January: Rhubarb Shortcake
February Pickled Eggs
March Pan-fried sweetbreads (a light starter)
April Carrot Jam
May Elderflower cordial
June Herring Sperm on Horseback (or Kromeskies)
July Pickled Walnuts
August Marsh Samphire
September Dandelion Coffee
October Fragolina grapes
November Mushroom Ketchup
December Homemade Ginger Beer
Suppliers
Bibliography
10. Acknowledgements
11. Index
