Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Roald Dahl

Twit’s Beard Food, Stickjaw for Talkative Parents, Lickable Wallpaper, or a refreshing glass of Frobscottle?ĭahl’s Bird Pie is a lot more honest than most chicken pot pies…Įven just reading these recipes aloud should be enough to inspire laughter from your kids, though, I’ll admit, some of these recipes actually sound really, really good. In what other cookbook will you and your child be able to find instructions to make Stink Bugs’ Eggs, Mr. And those are some of the more normal recipes. You can actually learn to make the Strawberry-Flavored Chocolate-Coated Fudge from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Chicken Soup from George’s Marvelous Medicine, or the Fresh Mudburgers from James and the Giant Peach. The recipes themselves are just as insane and inspired as the visuals. Before he died, Dahl assembled a list of all the foods from his various works and attached a note to his wife that read, “It’s a great idea, but God knows how you will do it.”) The recipes that Felicity Dahl and Josie Fison eventually put together are all accompanied by fantastic photographs by Jan Baldwin and original illustrations by longtime Dahl collaborator Quentin Blake, which make every dish look absolutely fantastic. ( Revolting Recipes was published four years after Dahl’s death in 1994. There’s actually a terrific blog called Dahlicious that’s devoted to the “delicious and disgusting food of Roald Dahl.” To that end, towards the end of his life, Dahl worked with his wife Felicity to collect Revolting Recipes, a cookbook designed to bring to life some of Dahl’s crazier culinary creations. There is a lot of food – crazy, extravagant food – running throughout Dahl’s works. (We’re probably venturing into Matilda next.) And her first-grade teacher is currently reading her class The BFG, so my daughter is coming home every day breathlessly recounting what she’s heard and telling us endlessly how much she loves the book. So far, we’ve read her Charlie, The Enormous Crocodile, The Witches, The Magic Finger, George’s Marvelous Medicine, and James and the Giant Peach, and she’s adored them all. (Though Kate DiCamillo, Adam Rex, and a few others would give him a run for his money.) Charlie and the Chocolate Factorywas one of the first books we ever read her – we used to read it to her to calm her down as a baby – and, since then, our library of Dahl books has just grown and grown. If you asked me to rank my daughter’s favorite authors of all time, Roald Dahl would always be at the top of the list. once you own a kids’ cookbook called Revolting Recipes… really, how can any other cookbook really compete with that? It’s just a glorious concept brought to life by one of the best children’s writers of all time. my kid usually loses interest in cooking after a few stirs and b). Even though there are hundreds of kid-friendly cookbooks on the market, we only own one.

Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Roald Dahl