'Bon Rappetite': Your favorite rapper's favorite cookbook
Book offers culinary comedy inspired by rap music.
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Rappers love their food. Take Atlanta for example: you had Ludacris' foray into the restaurant world, 2 Chainz and Chef Aleem's #MEALTIME cookbook, and Young Dro's obsession with, "shark meat, squid, and tilapia." Enter Bon Rappetite, the faux restaurant created by Baby Robot founders Everett Steele and Bunny Mcintosh and writer Chris Hassiotis, that featured menu items inspired by rapper names (Lil Wangz, anyone?) and their lyrics. A cookbook followed, and so did attention from national press. Flash forward to 2015, and the cookbook, Bon Rappetite: The Hip-Hop Cookbook: Vol. 1, is making a resurgence thanks distribution on Amazon, and a wallet-friendly price. We took the liberty of picking our 10 favorite recipes from Bon Rappetite, based solely on the names. The restaurant may be fake, but these recipes couldn't be more trill.
A Tribe Called Queso
Dubbed as the "universally acclaimed pioneer of progressive, alternative snacking," ATCQ is the cheese dip lover's idea of appetizer heaven. You can "REMIX" it by adding shredded chicken, vegetarian soy-sausage crumbles or spicy chorizo.
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Young Cheezy Fries
No matter how you go about prepping the fries, the end result promises that, "you'll be thuggin' under the influence of their ooey, gooey inspiration."
Gucci Maine Lobster
Best served "with an ice cream cone tattooed on your face," you can probably skip the chef's suggestion of getting your lobster from from the trap house, and maybe just hit up Your DeKalb Farmers Market instead.
Del the Chunky Tomatosoupien
Can't go wrong with a recipe that's "so easy it makes reading hieroglyphics look like kid's play."
Pone Thugs-N-Hominy
Method Man once bragged that he spread "butter lyrics over hominy grits." Chances are Meth would appreciate this dish.
Lil' Kimchi
Kimchi's good for the digestive system, and this spicy recipe guarantees that "everyone'll have a crush on you."
Wu-Tang Clams
It should probably go without saying that, "Wu-Tang Clams ain't nothing to fuck with!"
Talib Quaili
Conscious rappers like Talib Kweli could probably appreciate the "sweet, dark and unctuous balsamic glaze" that "will mos def make this quail dish shine like a black star!"
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Ol' Dirty Custard
I like to think that "Big Baby Jesus" himself is in heaven enjoying one of these delectable graham-cracker-and-nutmeg combos.
Waka Flocka Flambe
David Perdue's FaceTime homeboy would probably agree that this desert is "best with Ne-Yopolitan ice cream for three times the punch!"