Post #558308 by woofmutt on Thu, Oct 7, 2010 9:42 AM

NOTE: The below comments are based on an advance copy of GROG Like Eat & Drink! which I got from my editor at Justsuppose Magazine because everyone else at the magazine refused to review it. There could be some changes in the copy you buy at your local bookstore. I doubt any changes are significant, more likely small things like the half dozen or so times GROG is called GORG throughout the book. *****

First of all I like the size of GROG Like Eat & Drink!. Some books are too large and you know what that can be like, right? Also some books are too small and then you're like always "Where is that book? Why is it so small?" Well GROG Like Eat & Drink! is not like those books that are too big or too small. It's just right. I guess you could say as far as size goes GROG Like Eat & Drink! is the Goldilocks of books except that really wouldn't be accurate as Goldilocks was a little girl and GROG Like Eat & Drink! is full grown book. Also it wasn't Goldilocks herself who was "just right" it was the things she liked. The story really tells us little about Goldilocks herself other than she thought nothing of entering strange homes and doing whatever she wanted to.

GROG Like Eat & Drink! has nothing to do with Goldilocks (though I guess a vague connection could be made via GROG's recipe for Real Man Porridge but that would really be pushing the comparison). It's a just right sized book that also isn't too thick, nor is it so thin that you feel like you're getting ripped off.

GROG Like Eat & Drink! is a really good looking book and will look great on a moderately sized coffee table (important these days as few people have time to actually read anything).

GROG Like Eat & Drink! is richly illustrated with GROG's drawings, cartoons, and hand drawn angry letters to airlines. Even if you don't cook or drink you'll enjoy looking at the pictures.

The recipes in GROG Like Eat & Drink! are mostly originals created by GROG and they represent a wide variety of dishes, from the aforementioned Real Man Porridge to the humorous (and delicious) Last minute Late Night Dessert Pizza Girls Like Much.

There are also quite a few "GROG Favorite!" recipes which are recipes for drinks and food from various bars, restaurants, soup kitchens, and websites which GROG is very fond of. (I was honored beyond belief to find several of the recipes I'd developed and shared on Tiki Central included in GROG Like Eat & Drink!.)

Though one would only call GROG Like Eat & Drink! a Tiki book at the risk of being heavily chastised by Tiki purists (which is why I put this review thread in Bilge) the book does have quite a few exotica influenced recipes such as Aloha Breakfast Cap'n Crunch With Pineapple & Coconut and the surprisingly not awful Angry Man's Mai-Tai which is made with 7-Up, pineapple juice, and Zima.

In general GROG Like Eat & Drink! is a really swell book that will fit in with your Tiki or lowbrow collection just fine and shouldn't offend people as much as GROG's previous book Why You Such A Jerk? The GROG Guide To Make You Better Person, Jerk!

***** Well, I imagine the Deep Dish Pornographic Pan Pizza recipe and the 10 pages of full color illustrations for the recipe might not have made the final edition.