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.

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....

I found this at a Booksale and it felt like I won a golden ticket

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.

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).

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...

great recipes of things from the dalh childrens book universe :)

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!

The man is a genius!

I really liked this book. The recipes were very revolting, but it was fun to read.

This was fun.

I had this cookbook as a child, and loved the inventive recipes and fun illustrations. Some of the recipes were a little complicated for me to make on my own, but I enjoyed all ones I did attempt!