Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake: And Other Recipes for the Intellectually Famished

When Friedrich Nietzsche made angel food cake, did the angels survive the encounter? When Sigmund Freud handled raw fish, where did his thoughts take him? How did Ernest Hemingway batter testicles? And what's so special about Dorothy's Parker House Rolls? Not really a cookbook, but literary humor for those who enjoy smashing idols—fondly—NIETZSCHE'S ANGEL FOOD CAKE sends up twenty-two cultural monoliths by sharing "their" transcendently succulent "recipes." With additional contributions "by" Anaïs Nin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mead, James Joyce, B. F. Skinner, Geoffrey Chaucer, the Coen Brothers, John Steinbeck, Ian Fleming, Harper Lee, Jack Kerouac, Lewis Carroll, Danté, Emily Post, Carl Jung, Hermann Rorschach, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, this is a funny little gift book for lovers of literature, history, art, philosophy, and food—and for anyone with a good liberal arts education, no matter how vaguely they remember it.