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Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes

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Who but Roald Dahl could think up such mouthwatering and deliciously disgusting foods as Lickable Wallpaper, Stink Bugs Eggs, and Eatable Pillows? Now there,s a practical guide to making these and other delicacies featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Dahl's other books, with easy, step-by-step recipes that range from the delectable to the truly revolting. Quentin Blake's illustrations combine with full-color photographs of the luscious results to perfectly capture Roald Dahl's wicked sense of fun.

"Deliciously playful. Dahl, one suspects, would have been tickled." -- Publishers Weekly

The late Roald Dahl was one of the most beloved storytellers of all time. Quentin Blake has illustrated more than a dozen books by Roald Dahl.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1994

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Format
32 pages, Paperback
Published
November 1, 1997 by Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN
9780140378207
ASIN
0140378200
Language
English

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Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors.

Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was Shot Down Over Libya. Today the story is published as A Piece of Cake. The story, about his wartime adventures, was bought by the Saturday Evening Post for $900, and propelled him into a career as a writer. Its title was inspired by a highly inaccurate and sensationalized article about the crash that blinded him, which claimed he had been shot down instead of simply having to land because of low fuel.

His first children's book was The Gremlins, about mischievous little creatures that were part of RAF folklore. The book was commissioned by Walt Disney for a film that was never made, and published in 1943. Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach.

He also had a successful parallel career as the writer of macabre adult short stories, usually with a dark sense of humour and a surprise ending. Many were originally written for American magazines such as Ladies Home Journal, Harper's, Playboy and The New Yorker, then subsequently collected by Dahl into anthologies, gaining world-wide acclaim. Dahl wrote more than 60 short stories and they have appeared in numerous collections, some only being published in book form after his death. His stories also brought him three Edgar Awards: in 1954, for the collection Someone Like You; in 1959, for the story "The Landlady"; and in 1980, for the episode of Tales of the Unexpected based on "Skin".

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Parasprite
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April 17,2025
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There is a serious thing to be noted if you have vomiting issues do not read this book as Ronald Dahl’s this book will surely create an image of this utterly disgusting food items, this is the way Dahl brings out humour to us in by many disgusting things.
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honilock
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April 17,2025
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I found the majority of these recipes to be overly complicated and unappetizing! There are 31 in the book and I would consider trying three or four of them at best. It was fun to look at though and certainly doesnt take long to read....
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jepifish
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April 17,2025
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Looks gory but actually works.

I tried a few of the recipes compiled by Josei Fison and the book has all you need to make my day.
Excellent photography and graphic illustrations.

A must for any kitchen and a great coffee table book. You can also add this to your Roald Dahl library collection.
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_yunxue
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April 17,2025
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Well, and as far as general entertainment value goes, the recipe names and many of the imaginative accompanying photographs presented in this literary cookbook, shown in Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes have certainly hit the spot for me so to speak (as I definitely have very much enjoyed reading over the recipes, looking at Quentin Blake’s artwork, smiling at how imaginative and full of whimsy many of the photographs tend to be and of course also searching for the recipes in the respective Roald Dahl novels).

However, with regard to Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes as an actual and bona fide cookbook (and indeed one geared towards children), with featured recipes to try to make (and to consume), I unfortunately have been for the most part rather disappointed. For one, while many of the recipe suggestions (and yes, all of them, as already alluded to above, do seem to have definitely been gleaned from Roald Dahl novels) actually and mostly do sound delicious, they also and equally are for the most part not really all that healthy in scope and nutritious looking, with often high fat, heavily meat based or laden with white sugar ingredients (fine perhaps for an occasional treat, but really, on the whole, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes is kind of too much into celebrating unhealthy, lacking in nutrition food ingredients and this is especially problematic considering the target audience, considering children). And for two, since Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes is obviously supposed to be (at least in my opinion) geared towards younger readers (children), far far too many of the featured recipes seem to require difficult and sometimes even potentially dangerous for novice cooks instructions and equipment (for yes, and as an example, I would certainly be very leery letting any child attempt to make fudge and having to use a candy thermometer, for I know from trying to make candy as a novice adult cook that this is not only difficult but mishaps and the potential for burning oneself are indeed high).

Therefore, while Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes does have a certain amount of charm, I actually do not think it succeeds all that well as far as it being a cookbook (and I thus also very much doubt that I am also sufficiently interested trying the second book, Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes).
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MatthewSweatshir
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April 17,2025
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I highly recommend the recipes for Bruce Bogtrotter Cake and for the Green Pea Soup from the Witches. They are neither of them all that easy to make, but are both extremely delicious and worth the effort...
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gloommei
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April 17,2025
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great recipes of things from the dalh childrens book universe :)
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mia_yuukina
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April 17,2025
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For me this was an entertaining, though wildly impractical cookbook. There are some clever recipes, including Lickable Wallpaper, which appears to be concocted from some sort of homemade fruit leather, and The Enormous Crocodile, made of more ingredients than most Martha Stewart recipes.



Unless your children will eagerly gobble up artichokes, frozen spinach, and cucumbers stuffed with tuna, this will be a look-through only cookbook.



My kids, both members in good standing of The Picky Eaters Club, would never touch a thing in this book . . . except maybe Bruce Bogtrotter's Cake:



It looks kind of to-die-for. And, with 6 eggs in the mix . . . you just might keel over . . . with a smile on yer face!
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