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Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook: Culinary Cartoons for the Humorously Famished

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Author: Charles Addams
Creator: Allen Weiss
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 334248

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 0743267753
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780743267755
ASIN: 0743267753

Publication Date: September 27, 2005
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•	Kindle Edition - Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Food and eating were a couple of Charles Addams's favorite subjects. Hungry cannibals, witches gathering around a cauldron, or a king over his blackbird pie often populated his celebrated cartoons. And, of course, Morticia of the "Addams Family" was an avid cook, adding a touch of eye of newt or popping over to the neighbors for a cup of cyanide. So it should come as no wonder that in the 1960s Charles Addams was dabbling with a "cookbook" idea. Addams discovered and compiled some bizarre recipes from antiquated and out-of-the-way sources. These recipes have very Addams-like names, such as "Mushrooms Fester" or "Hearts Stuffed," and serve as a perfect complement to his drawings.

Chas Addams™ Half-Baked Cookbook is a collection of his work on the world of food and eating, featuring many Addams drawings that have never been seen before, as well as some of his all-time classics.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

A book full of leftovers December 24, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a fun little book showing off Chas Addam's morbid sense of humor. There are a few of his famous cullonary cartoons, but most of the cartoons are previously unpublished rough drafts. This is definately a from the personal archives and not a best of book. My main gripe about this tome is that it only features 10 pages of odd-ball recipes. I was hoping for something a little meatier in depth.

5 out of 5 stars

Cure for the macabre. October 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This little book with fill your hunger for the macabre and your stomach at the same time. What a deal. Good Eats!

5 out of 5 stars

Addams a la mode! November 2, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

It's nice to have Charles Addams back in print. Addams' original Simon and Schuster collections are classics and now long out-of print, not to mention pricey on the secondary market. This book brings together some classic cartoons, plus some newly-published material, interlaced with creepy, but very real recipes from obscure vintage publications. Addams would most definitely have approved these selections, they are so precisely in tune with the Addams sensibility - reminiscent of his book "Dear Dead Days" which combined Addams cartoons with a scrapbook of macabre photos and clippings. This is just the culinary version! I'm not bothered by the fact that many of the new cartoons are "roughs", it provides a fascinating glimpse into Addams' work process. It's about time that new Addams product was put out, and this plus the recent reissue of "Chas. Addams' Mother Goose" are encouraging. Highly recommended, I'm off to make Mushrooms Fester!