Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook

by Annick Giroux

From the blazing stovetop of Montreal's Annick Giroux comes an inspired international heavy metal cookbook full of favorite recipes from members of Thin Lizzy, Mayhem, Anthrax, Kreator, Sepultura, Destruction, Possessed, Obituary, Accept, Doro, Gwar, Toxic Holocaust, Saint Vitus, Amebix, Uriah Heep, Budgie, and many more. Hellbent for Cooking features ravishing recipes for ravenous appetites with a varied menu of over a hundred recipes from thirty countries, including Yorkshire Pudding from England, Beer Pizza Crust from Germany, Spaghetti Barracuda from Italy, Farikal from Norway, Country Lamb Exohiko from Greece, Churrasco from Brazil, and Mushroom Steak a la Jack Daniel's from the United States. The dishes are legendary, and so are the bands. Feel the heat of thrash metal pioneers Sepultura, Kreator, Anthrax, and Nuclear Assault; devour the proto-metal heavy rock of Thin Lizzy, early Judas Priest, and Uriah Heep; savor the slow-cooked doom of Pentagram and Saint Vitus; and revel in the extreme cuisine of underground pioneers Autopsy, Death, Repulsion not to mention Norway s infamous black metal chefs Mayhem and Gorgoroth. Afterwards, Doro Pesch of Warlock serves her Black Forest Cake, and Richard Christy from Death pours his trademark cocktail, the mighty Viking Testicle. The full flavorful menu of appetizer, breakfast, lunch, dinner, vegetarian, seafood, dessert, and drink recipes includes contributions by members Abigail, Abscess, Accept, After the Bombs, Alcoholic Rites, Amebix, Anthrax, Anvil, Armored Saint, Arphaxat, Atomizer, Autopsy, Bastardator, Beehler, Blackfire, Blasphemy, Brutal Truth, Budgie, Bulldozer, Cauldron, Children of Technology, Control Denied, Countess, Cruachan, Dantesco, Deadmask, Death, Death SS, Deiphago, Denial of God, Desolation Angels, Destruction, Devastation, Dissection, Doro, Dusk, Electric Wizard, Elixir, Envenom, Exciter, Eyehategod, Faustcoven, Funerot, Goat Horn, Gorgoroth, Grimorium Verum, Gwar, Hidden Hand, Holocausto, Impaler, Inepsy, Judas Priest, Killers, Kreator, Lamp of Thoth, L Impero Delle Ombre, Lord Vicar, Mantak, Master, Master s Hammer, Mayhem, Melechesh, Messiah, Midnight, Minotaur, Mortal Sin, Mutiilation, Necromantia, Necrosadist, Nuclear Assault, Obituary, Obscurity, Orodruin, Pagan Altar, Pentagram, Piledriver, Possessed, Procession, Repulsion, Reverend Bizarre, Rigor Mortis, Rotting Christ, Sadistik Exekution, Saint Vitus, Sepultura, Shackles, Sigh, Sir Lord Baltimore, Skyforger, Slaughter, S.O.D., Spirit Caravan, Stiny Plamenu, Tankard, Thanatos, The Gates of Slumber, The Obsessed, The Rods, Lord Weird Slough Feg, Thin Lizzy, Toxic Holocaust, Trench Hell, Trouble, Tygers of Pan Tang, U.D.O., Uriah Heep, Warlock, Warpig, Weapon, Wino, Witchfynde, Witchtrap, Xibalba, and Zemial. For anyone with a taste for The kitchen gates are open, so grab your weapons of mass nutrition, and let the feast begin!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Music, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2009

About the author

Annick Giroux is a dedicated headbanger from the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada, who learned her own way around the kitchen without formal culinary training. She worships good food, and loves cooking new recipes every day while blasting heavy metal records from her large collection. For six years, Annick produced and edited the acclaimed Morbid Tales underground metal fanzine. Now working as a graphic designer in Montreal, she also DJs weekly at the celebrated Katacombes venue, designs record sleeves for metal bands, and organizes and promotes local live gigs.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

An utterly astounding book full of eclectic recipes of cult Metal bands all over the world. Must have for any fan of Metal OR cooking!

[Bear · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious, tasty goodness; must-have for aspiring metalhead cooks. Beautiful pictures of the food and lots of diverse cultural cuisine.

[Desiree · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found this at the local library on the new cookbook display. Sweet! We made a whole bunch of these and copied others for later use. Everything was delicious. It loses one star because the instructions aren't always that clear (I realize that musicians wrote them, but the chef's notes could have clarified some things...), like "cook until done." Um...
Overall, though, awesome hearty food for grim and frostbitten winter nights.
Generally not recommended for vegetarians, though there are a few veg recipes sprinkled sparsely throughout... This is mostly about meat (maybe wrapped in some other meat.

[Teijo Aflecht · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some 8 years later, Hellbent for Cooking is still the best cookbook in the house. Very well written, not just a gimmick, lots of variety of recipes (down to some pretty gnarly and boring ones). Beautifully laid out, quality photos, good commentary. Great for anyone, but obviously especially for the (heavy/extreme) metal enthusiast.

This book jumpstarted my interest in cooking, because the only thing I knew how to make was macaroni with minced meat (which bizarelly is also one of the more jokey recipes included in the book).

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hilarious!

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty much zero bands or styles of metal I care about, and very little I would actually eat. But Giroux's idea was prime, and it's a very good-looking cookbook. I think anyone who is a less picky eater and more into black and/or thrash metal than I would have a blast with this.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am giving this book 4 stars for it's entertainment value. I didn't make any of the recipes (not yet) but I sure liked going through the book reading the anecdotes. It's due back at the library, so I will have to check it out at a later time and try some of these dishes.

[Rex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved it! Such a fun and inspiring read. My first recipe was King ov Hells spaghetti in a wok which I thought was going to come out shitty and it surprisingly was pretty damn good. Who says metalheads can't cook and have a good time?

[Lindsay Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great and full of a variety of interesting recipes. Very well made and the illustrations and graphic design are also killer and fit well into the theme of the book. I wouldn't mind having a second volume for my cook book shelf.

[Rebecca Deaville · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book for my husband to add to our collection of metal \m/ books.
And I do have to say that the recipes are amazing!
Great work Annick!

[Nate · Rating 5 out of 5]

annick has a great sense of humor. anyone interested in underground death metal should like this. i havent tried out any of the receipes, but will give a few a go

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Less trashy than Mosh Potatoes and beautifully designed. Looking forward to rockin' out some of these recipes.

[Rob Nichols]

Bought this for my wife for Christmas. I am a metalhead, she is so not. But she IS a cook, and loved the book. Great recipes with strange names. Great pictures too.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't wait to assault my kitchen with these recipes! Delicious radioactive Fallout will emanate from my stovetop/oven vent....

[Vicky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why air guitar like a rock star, when you can cook like one