Revenge and Dishes Best Served Cold
Books that are serving you exactly what you had coming to you!
Revenge is a dish best served cold and pairs especially well with a great book. So, why not serve both!
Stories of vengeance and cold dishes require patience and precision to execute flawlessly. Dinners must have the patience to wait for a dish to lose its heat, much like a character waiting for the anger of the moment to pass, so the dish, and revenge, is expertly served at the opportune moment. Both provide the measured tension that grabs your attention.
We’ve paired our favorite cookbooks with some of the best books on revenge. There are even a few recipes for you to try as a tantalizing amuse bouche to the feast of retribution these novels deliver.
From chilling thrillers to classic schemes to domestic downfalls, there is a revenge plot to pair with your favorite dishes.
These are stories where vengeance isn’t rushed, but sharpened, savored, and sometimes horrifyingly creative.
Food to Die for: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places (a Spooky Paranormal Cookbook with Delightfully Creepy Meals, Eerie
by Amy Bruni - Julie Tremaine
Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns, giving you stories and a recipe from each place.
Whether you're in the mood for Lizzie Borden's meatloaf or want to serve up spooky prison stories along with sugar cookies from Alcatraz, Food to Die For is your guide to ghoulish gastronomy.
One of America's favorite ghost hunters, Amy Bruni takes you to mysterious hotels, eerie ghost towns, and possessed pubs in this delightfully sinister collection of stories and recipes. Each of the nearly 60 locations in Food to Die For includes:
- Vintage photographs and charmingly creepy stories rooted in history
- A noteworthy recipe associated with the people or place
- Full-color, captivating, and hauntingly styled food photos to inspire a killer kitchen experience
Books Paired With Food to Die For
1. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
2. When the Reckoning Comes by Latanya McQueen
3. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
4. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
Absinthe Frappe - From Food to Die For, by Amy Bruni
Ingredients:
Crushed Ice
2 oz. absinthe
2 dashes anisette
½ oz. simple syrup, optional
Club soda, for topping
Fresh mint, for garnish
Preparation:
- Fill a glass halfway with crushed ice.
- Add the absinthe or Herbsaint and anisette to a cocktail shaker filled with ice, as well as the simple syrup if you prefer a sweeter drink. Shake to chill.
- Strain into the prepared glass. Top with club soda and more crushed ice.
- Garnish with fresh mint
See the full recipe on Garden & Gun.
Here revenge is clean and deliberate, unfolding with precision and restraint. Watching every piece fall into place is proof that coolness is just as sweetly satisfying as chaos.
Garde Manger: The Art and Craft of the Cold Kitchen
by The Culinary Institute of America (Cia) The Culinary Institute of America (Cia)
The leading guide to the professional kitchen's cold food station, now fully revised and updated
Garde Manger: The Art and Craft of the Cold Kitchen has been the market's leading textbook for culinary students and a key reference for professional chefs since its original publication in 1999. This new edition improves on the last with the most up-to-date recipes, plating techniques, and flavor profiles being used in the field today. New information on topics like artisanal cheeses, contemporary styles of pickles and vinegars, and contemporary cooking methods has been added to reflect the most current industry trends. And the fourth edition includes hundreds of all-new photographs by award-winning photographer Ben Fink, as well as approximately 450 recipes, more than 100 of which are all-new to this edition. Knowledge of garde manger is an essential part of every culinary student's training, and many of the world's most celebrated chefs started in garde manger as apprentices or cooks. The art of garde manger includes a broad base of culinary skills, from basic cold food preparations to roasting, poaching, simmering, and sautéing meats, fish, poultry, vegetables, and legumes. This comprehensive guide includes detailed information on cold sauces and soups; salads; sandwiches; cured and smoked foods; sausages; terrines, pâtes, galantines, and roulades; cheese; appetizers and hors d'oeuvre; condiments, crackers, and pickles; and buffet development and presentation.
Books Paired With Garde Manger:
1. The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
2. The Collective by Alison Gaylin
3. They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
4. Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
Antipasto Platter - A cold dish with a little bit of everything and anything
Ingredients:
1 jar (24 ounces) peperoncini, drained
1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans or chickpeas, rinsed and drained
2 cups halved fresh mushrooms
2 cups halved cherry tomatoes
1/2 pound provolone cheese, cubed
1 can (6 ounces) pitted ripe olives, drained
1 package (3-1/2 ounces) sliced pepperoni
1 bottle (8 ounces) Italian vinaigrette dressing
Lettuce leaves
Directions:
- In a large bowl, combine pepperoncini, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, provolone cheese, olives and pepperoni. Pour vinaigrette over mixture; toss to coat.
- Refrigerate at least 30 minutes or overnight. Arrange on a lettuce-lined platter. Serve with toothpicks.
Find the full recipe on Taste of Home.
A “freezer meal” isn’t necessarily a dish you serve cold, but neither is a scorned housewife necessarily out for revenge. But these novels show, even when planning revenge, busy women may have to freeze their plots to defrost and cook at a later time. At least they are quick, convenient, and usually done in less than 30 minutes.
Seriously Good Freezer Meals: 150 Easy Recipes to Save Your Time, Money and Sanity
by Karrie Truman
Don't Freeze Up at Meal Time -- Reach Into the Freezer Instead
Let's admit it: we all want to save time and money while still putting healthy and tasty homemade food on the table. But how? Karrie Truman, creator of the much-beloved blog Happy Money Saver, is going to let you in on a secret: the answer is freezer meals.
When she was an exhausted young mom, Karrie found herself serving processed or fast food at the end of a busy day even though she knew it wasn't what she wanted her family to be eating. Then she discovered freezer meals. Immediately, she had home-cooked, easy and delicious food at her fingertips and more time to spend with loved ones.
In Seriously Good Freezer Meals, Karrie shares 150 recipes photos that will change the way you think about freezer cooking. You won't find your mother or grandmother's freezer meals here (except lasagna, of course). Her recipes include Morning Energy Bars, Empanada Hand Pies, Coconut Cashew Basil Curry Soup, Smoky Grilled Louisiana Turkey Legs, and Layered Chocolate Mousse Cake with tons of vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options, too. Plus, she adds a bulk-batch chart for ease in making large quantities of each freezer-meal recipe.
Books Paired with Freezer Meals:
1. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
2. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
3. Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith
Berry Fool - A Frozen Treat
Ingredients:
1/2 cup trimmed and coarsely chopped fresh strawberries (about 4 medium)
1 cup cold heavy cream
3 tablespoons powdered sugar, divided
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/8 teaspoon almond extract, or both
1 1/2 cups frozen raspberries
Sliced fresh strawberries, for garnish (optional)
Directions:
- Place 1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh strawberries in the freezer while you prepare the other ingredients.
- Beat 1 cup cold heavy cream, 1 tablespoon of the powdered sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract with the whisk attachment in a stand mixer on medium speed until stiff peaks form, 5 to 6 minutes. (Alternatively, whisk in a large bowl by hand.) Refrigerate while you prepare the fruit.
- Pulse the chopped strawberries, 1 1/2 cups frozen raspberries, and the remaining 2 tablespoons powdered sugar in a food processor until finely chopped and resembles a coarse meal, 15 to 20 (1-second) pulses.
- Transfer to the bowl of whipped cream and gently fold together with a flexible spatula until just combined. Divide between 4 to 6 serving cups. Garnish with sliced strawberries if desired. Serve immediately.
See more about this recipe at The Kitchn.
On a hot day, there is nothing more satisfying than a delectable cold dish, and when you are craving a great revenge story, there is nothing better than a classic.
Cold Dishes for Hot Weather
by Ysaguirre La Marca
This cookbook provides refreshing and easy-to-make cold dishes for those hot summer days. From salads to chilled soups, this book is full of creative and healthy recipes perfect for picnics, barbecues, or any outdoor gathering. With clear instructions and beautiful photos, this cookbook will inspire even the most reluctant cook.
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Books Paired with Cold dishes for hot weather:
1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Barbara a Mowat - Paul Werstine
2. Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville - Andrew Delbanco - Tom Quirk
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - Robin Buss - Robin Buss - Robin Buss
Gazpacho - classic cold dish
Ingredients:
2 cups tomato juice
4 medium tomatoes, peeled and finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped seeded peeled cucumber
1/3 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Directions:
- In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, at least 4 hours.
Get more about this gazpacho recipe at Taste of Home.
These books remind us that revenge, much like cooking, rewards patience, intention, and restraint. Whether dark, domestic, or classic, each story shows that timing is often everything.
Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
by Caroline Eden
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A cozy, thoughtful memoir recalling food and travel in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from a basement Edinburgh kitchen, featuring a delicious recipe at the end of each chapter.
"With its union of practicality and magic," Caroline Eden understands a kitchen as a portal, "offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways back into other times, other lives and other territories."
A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books, and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden's basement Edinburgh kitchen offers her comfort away from the road. Join her as she cooks recipes from her travels, reflects on past adventures, and contemplates the kitchen's unique ability to tell human stories. This is a hauntingly honest, and at times heartbreaking, memoir with the smell, taste, and preparation of food at its heart.
From late night baking as a route back to Ukraine to capturing the beauty of Uzbek porcelain, and from the troublesome nature of food and art in Poland to the magic of cloudberries, Cold Kitchen celebrates the importance of curiosity and of feeling at home in the world.
Books Paired With Cold Kitchen:
1. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
2. Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
3. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
4. Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie