Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch

by Dorion Sagan

"Comedic, sardonically acute insight...opens with a quote you won't find on any billboard." Melissa Harrison

120 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2001

About the author

Dorion Sagan (born 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American science writer, essayist, and theorist. He has written and co-authored many books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, most recently The Sciences of Avatar: from Anthropology to Xenology and Death and Sex, which won first place at the 2010 New York Book Show in the general trade nonfiction category. His Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.

A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has been a Humana Scholar at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and received an Educational Press Association of America Excellence in Educational Journalism Award for “The Riddle of Sex,” which appeared in The Science Teacher. His Death and Sex, a two-in-one hardcover published by Chelsea Green, won the 2010 New York Book Show in the competitive general trade nonfiction category. His current interests include philosophy and science fiction.

Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. His younger brother is Jeremy Sagan and his half-brother is Nick Sagan.

Reviews

[Jc · Rating 1 out of 5]

Carl Sagan's son, Dorion, smoked a bit too much pot during the writing of this silly little essay. That is not casting aspersions, he mentions it himself throughout the monograph. Oddly fun, despite its silliness, but I can't see myself recommending it to anyone (unless maybe they too are stoned). Dorion actually CAN write, as other works of his demonstrate. But here I think he was mostly just amusing himself. For fans of his either of his parents (Carl and biologist Lynn Margulis), there are a few amusing tidbits in here about their private lives.