Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by Roald Dahl, Felicity Dahl, Josie Fison

Overview

Offers simple, step-by-step recipes for dishes mentioned in Roald Dahl's works, including such delicacies as "Bruce Bogtrotter's Sensational Chocolate Cake" and "Stinkbug Eggs."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780613639880
Publisher:	Perfection Learning Corporation
Publication date:	04/04/2019
Edition description:	THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Beloved British novelist, poet, and storyteller, Roald Dahl was also a chocolate historian, WWII spy, ace fighter-pilot and took part in inventing a medical device that helped thousands of children. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the famous author's most popular book. He has written many other brilliant children's books including Matilda, The BFG, and James and the Giant Peach.

Date of Birth:

September 13, 1916

Date of Death:

November 23, 1990

Place of Birth:

Llandaff, Wales, England

Place of Death:

Oxford, England

Editorial Reviews

Hungry? Perhaps a serving of "Scrambled Dregs" or "Hair Toffee to Make Hair Grow on Bald Men" will hit the spot. Recipes for these and the additional delicacies mentioned in the late Roald Dahl's (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) work are hereby adapted for the home kitchen, thanks to the author's widow. Dahl, one suspects, would have been tickled: the offerings are heavily weighted on the side of sweets, and the order of presentation defies adult logic. True to the book's title, there are some recipes of questionable kid appeal (the green pea soup from The Witches; or cod, scallions and spices spread on bread and fried, identified as "Mosquitoes' Toes and Wampfish Roes Most Delicately Fried"). The graphics, meanwhile, are deliciously playful: Blake's inimitable, droll drawings interact cleverly with Baldwin's food photography. For example, cartoony characters clad in pajamas snooze on a silhouetted photo of ``Eatable Marshmallow Pillows.'' Despite the child-oriented tone, a number of recipes require adult participation by virtue of cursory directions or tricky maneuvers (e.g., ensuring that mixtures boil to specific temperatures). All ages. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Gr 3-6-It had to happen: a cookbook based on the extraordinarily fascinating things that are eaten and served up by the characters in Dahl's children's books. Here it is, complete with Blake's zanily familiar illustrations creatively combined with full-color photographs. It features 31 recipes from 11 books-cakes, cookies, drinks, and main dishes-known by such names as ``Snozzcumbers'' (The BFG), ``Wormy Spaghetti'' (The Twits), and ``Lickable Wallpaper'' (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Some of the recipes, despite their titles, produce good tasting, recognizable dishes. Others are works of art. For example, ``Mr. Twit's Beard Food'' is a veritable portrait of himself, composed of mashed-potato base, mushroom-cap nostrils, hardboiled-egg eyeballs, with peas, cornflakes, and baked beans in a potato-stick beard. Many of the recipes are not for beginning cooks; indeed, cooking appears to be a secondary focus. The important thing is the association to a Dahl title, a reminder and celebration of his outrageously imaginative books that so many children love.-Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME

School Library Journal

Kids will love the concept--recipes for confections mentioned in Dahl's books--and the book's design is super. There's just one problem: most of the recipes are too difficult for the intended audience. Take "Mosquitoes' Toes and Wampfish Roes," a dish mentioned in "James and the Giant Peach". The instructions ask kids to blend cod, ginger scallions, and cornstarch in a food processor, and then, with the motor running, to add egg white from a previously separated egg. Other recipes call for a piping bag and nozzle, stem ginger in syrup, and--I'm not kidding--a blackbird, described as a black pastry funnel found in specialty cooks' shops. A note encouraging families to cook these recipes together and warning children to have an adult present when handling knives and other dangerous objects is hidden away on the verso of the title page. There are a couple of accessible recipes, like fresh mudburgers (hamburgers), but the draw will really be Blake's marvelous drawings, here combined with ingenious photos of food by Jan Baldwin. Larger collections may want this just because it's so much fun to look at. Like some adult cookbooks, this is probably more for browsing than for baking.

Ilene Cooper