Dark Side of the Spoon: The Rock Cookbook

by Joe Inniss, Ralph Miller, Peter Stadden

Dark Side of the The Rock Cookbook features thirty recipes inspired by some of the most renowned rock acts of today and yesteryear. The dishes are accompanied by exclusive artworks from thirty top illustrators. Catering for cooks of all abilities and tastes, this book will help you master a wide range of appetizers, entrées, and desserts—including Smashing Pumpkin Pie, Fleetwood Mac and Cheese, and Primal Bream.

Dark Side of the Spoon celebrates the many humorous parallels between food and rock, and is a must-have for anyone with a love for cooking, music, or illustration, or indeed all three.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

96 pages, Paperback

Published October 31, 2017

Reviews

[Tasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome!!!

[Roberta · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun little book of recipes with a rock twist. the recipes are rated for difficulty and production time and organised in order of eating them (Starters, Mains, Desserts, Extras) with a lot of extra helpful tables and other material and of course, plenty of rock references throughout. the dishes are also widely varied in their origin, some being traditionally Italian or American, other Japanese and Vietnamese.

[MKF · Rating 1 out of 5]

A rock cookbook by someone who doesn't know the difference between rock and metal. Or is the title of this book just incorrect and this isn't actually a rock cookbook? Which ever it is this is just a short cookbook where all the recipe names are a play on each bands name.

[Kathleen Garber · Rating 4 out of 5]

This little cookbook is a must for the rock & roll lover.

Even if you never cook any of the dishes you will have fun just reading the meal titles:

Fleetwood Mac & Cheese
Tofu Fighters
The Offspring Rolls
Limp Brisket
The Rolling Scones
and more
The Recipes
In the book you will find 10 appetizers, 10 mains, 10 desserts and 6 supporting acts (side dishes.) There seems to be a mix of types of foods/cuisines: stir fry, burger sliders, puff pastry beef tart, Vietnamese beef pho stock with noodles, fajita wraps, Japanese chicken curry, poached haddock, beef brisket etc.

Each recipe includes a difficulty rating from 1-11 that looks like an AMP dial (a node to Spinal Tap’s amp which goes up to 11.) The B.P.M (beats per minute) scale shows you how long it will take you to prepare and cook the dish. You will also find an ingredients list and the cooking method of course. There are no photos of the dish but instead you will find an interesting illustration

What Else is Included
The book starts off with an equipment matrix which is a chart showing you what equipment you will need for each dish (other than basics.)

Also there is an extended play section which includes recipes for making your own Pho Spice Mix, Pho Bone Stock, Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce, Spicy Fajita Seasoning plus how to yolk an egg, fillet a fish, make pie dough, make a syrup sponge cake as well as recipe indexes, dietary information (list of which recipes are gluten free or which can be made vegan) and a set list (list of music to listen to while cooking – the specific songs that go with the dishes.)

Final Thoughts
I haven’t tried any of the dishes and to be honest most of them I wouldn’t try but only because our family is pretty picky. If you aren’t too scared to try new things or eat foods you like in new ways you’ll enjoy the recipes.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review

[Terryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book as a present for getting my first job, and as someone who is very easy to please, the puns in the recipe titles are easily the best part of this book. I’ve spent many a night just looking at the artwork and giggling to myself. However, there’s a few setbacks:

1: The book doesn’t seem to know its demographic. It markets itself as a “rock” cookbook, but a very big chunk of the bands featured are metal. For some this isn’t so bad, like Metallica and Judas Priest, but Slipknot? Sepultura? Cradle of Filth? I can’t imagine many of the dads who bought this for the Pink Floyd title know who those are (or like them at most). I believe these authors have a rap cookbook as well, they really should have divided rock and metal into two different books.

2: This isn’t an issue with the writing, but the book is fairly small and isn’t spiralbound. This makes actually working with the recipes difficult if you’re using a physical copy of the book.

Overall, the recipes seem to be fine from what I’ve tried. The gnocchi is my favourite so far.

[Raymond Parish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun cookbook with tasty recipes for fans of rock and heavy metal. A nice bonus is the ranking of each dish prep by degree of difficulty. A clever concept with delicious choices for those of us who are not chefs, but enjoy cooking.

[Lauren Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A clever, punny, music-themed cookbook, from which you can plan quite a dinner party

[Anne Wi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I give this 5 stars because the recipes in it are really good. The names of the dishes are also really catchy. As with any good cook book there is a matrix in the front of the book that lists all of the equipment that you will need to make every dish. Also, the dishes have difficulty ratings on them which may be helpful for the novice chefs out there.

[Danielle Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is awesome! The puns use to the recipes are hilarious.

Ladle of Filth (Cradle of Filth)
Dim Sum 41 (Sum 41)
Fleetwood Mac -n- Cheese (Fleetwood Mac)

I laughed so hard reading the recipes names. The illustrations are great as well!