I just found one type of satire I don’t yet own: food commentary. I’m eager to get a copy of The Devil’s Food Dictionary and feast my eyes (oooh…pun intended) on its vast array of fabricated entries.

From the website:

The market for food books appears, at last, to have begun devouring itself. Nearly every topic worth writing about has been written about, and the well of dependable, interesting information on food, once thought inexhaustible, is beginning to run dry.

In circumstances such as these, author Barry Foy believes that an honorable writer has nowhere to go but sideways, into the realm of lies, misleading claims, and baseless speculation. With nearly 1,100 entries on subjects ranging from ingredients to utensils to history to techniques, plus 246 footnotes, an extensive fraudulent bibliography, and 26 peculiar illustrations, The Devil’s Food Dictionary promises much-needed relief to the foodish reader who is sagging under the burden of informativeness and credibility.

Laying down the burden of credibility is a treat indeed.

Just look at a sample page:

That fabulous sausage image prompted me to seek out other works by the illustrator, John Boesche, to no avail. Hopefully there will be plenty in the book.