Technically, this is not a cookbook, but it does have recipes. Whether you actually want to attempt (or consume) them is an entirely different question. The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Classic Diet Recipe Cards from the 1970s is a book that features over 100 different, full-color, diet recipe cards. Each recipe card comes with hilarious commentary from author and complier Wendy McClure, who blogs at Pound and runs candyboots, where you can see some more recipe cards from the 1970s. This is the same sort of thing that you might see at the gallery of regrettable food, only better.
How much better can a book with a recipe for "Mackerelly" (I don't know what that is, nor do I care to) get?
It actually has a Flickr pool where you can see user submitted photos of some of the recipes, including the fluffy mackerel pudding. As a sample, you can see a picture of the Frankfurter Crown Roast after the jump.
[via Everything and Nothing]
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