Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out, Cookbook of the Day

by Nicole Weston, Posted Feb 18th 2007 @ 7:53AM

When the power goes out, you lose a lot of the functionality of your kitchen. The microwave doesn't work, nor does the oven. You can't use your coffee machine, and neither will an electric stove. The worst thing, aside from the fact that such situations are almost entirely unpredictable, is that your refrigerator and freezer will be powerless, meaning that to clock is rapidly ticking for all the perishable foods that are so important to our daily meals.Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out is a lighthearted look at how - and what - to cook when you can't use any of the resources that we normally take for granted. It includes lists of safe, easy-to-store foods, as well as other disaster-preparedness tips, and suggestions for putting together a reliable and electricity-free cooking system. The 50 or so recipes are easy to follow and require minimal work to put together dishes - all of the ones in the book are vegetarian - like Almost-Instant Black Bean Chili, Pantry Pasta Salad, Skillet Peach Crumble and Garlicky Chickpeas with Potatoes and Tomatoes.

And, lest you think that the book is only handy in natural disasters (and Bachelors, as the cover suggests), consider that it is not a bad idea to have a book full of recipes that require minimal cooking and shelf-stable (or just long lasting) foods for those times when you just don't feel like working too hard in the kitchen.

Source

Filed Under: Cookbook Spotlight, Books
Tags: Apocalypse Chow, ApocalypseChow, book, cookbook, Cookbook of the Day, CookbookOfTheDay, disaster, How to Eat Well When the Power Goes

Chew on This

Royal Wedding Cake Details Revealed! - YumSugar

Make Your Own Pop Tarts - CHOW
Denny's Introduces a Maple Bacon Sundae - Eater
Whole Foods Opening Bars in Stores - USA Today
Rules Of Bar Etiquette -- For The Bartender - HuffPost Food

Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-19-2007 @11:22AM Adam said... I was about to ask why all the recipes are vegetarian, but then I realized that it would we hard to eat meat that is uncooked, blah!

This book would have been great last Wednesday when the power went out of our building right before lunch.
Reply