Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook: Culinary Cartoons for the Humorously Famished

By Charles Addams and Allen Weiss

At the time of his death, Charles Addams was working on this project, a cookbook with never-before-seen artwork and never before tasted and very macabre recipes—published here for the first time, along with some classic Addams cartoons about food and cooking.

Food and eating were a couple of Charles Addams's favorite subjects. Hungry cannibals, witches gathering around a cauldron, or a king over his blackbird pie often populated his celebrated cartoons. And, of course, Morticia of the "Addams Family" was an avid cook, adding a touch of eye of newt or popping over to the neighbors for a cup of cyanide. So it should come as no wonder that in the 1960s Charles Addams was dabbling with a "cookbook" idea. Addams discovered and compiled some bizarre recipes from antiquated and out-of-the-way sources. These recipes have very Addams-like names, such as "Mushrooms Fester" or "Hearts Stuffed," and serve as a perfect complement to his drawings.

Chas Addams™ Half-Baked Cookbook is a collection of his work on the world of food and eating, featuring many Addams drawings that have never been seen before, as well as some of his all-time classics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Jun 16, 2008
• ISBN: 9781439103869

Charles Addams

Chas Addams was the creator of the "Addams Family" cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker and were the inspiration for the popular The Addams Family television show and movies. He has been honored with the Yale Humor Award (1954) and a Special Edgar Award for "Cartoonist of the Macabre" from the Mystery Writers of America. Addams died in 1988 in New York City.

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HALF-BAKED COOKBOOK

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Addams, Charles, 1912-

Chas Addams half-baked cookbook / Chas Addams.

p. cm.

1. Cookery. I. Title: Half-baked cookbook. II. Title.

TX652.A343 2005

641.5—dc22

2005051022

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-6775-5

eISBN: 978-1-439-10386-9

ISBN-10:   0-7432-6775-3

Café Styx

One evening several years ago as I was dining on raw oysters, sea snails, and sea urchins at the Café de Turin in Nice, I found myself seated opposite an elderly and rather curious man—part Mediterranean, part bird, part satyr—who wasn’t at all familiar with the many varieties of seafood that surrounded him. He would inquire as to whether a particular dish was good, and when his interlocutor endorsed it—which

Reviews for Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook

[jjmcgaffey · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Cute little collection of cooking-related Addams cartoons (lots of cannibal and witch cauldrons, strange things behind Automat windows, etc). It also includes several recipes, some modified to sound horrific (2 tsp squirrel blood, or substitute sherry...), some just supposed to sound horrific (stuffed heart). I was delighted to find a recipe for black pudding! (yeah, yeah, it includes blood. It's yummy, though).

[ptaylor12 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Humor and horror

[d-fbuser-46273533 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's great to see the dark humour of Charles Addams - not just the cartoons that gave rise directly to The Addams Family (TV series from 1964). Some of them take a few minutes for the penny to drop, but overall, a satisfyingly disturbing collection.
The recipes, while odd, are fascinating too.