Cookbooks For Men

As a representative of the gender, I can attest that men do love them some sammiches. And don't worry, A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches isn't so named because it reveals that sammiches, like, cause cancer or make you sterile. The book is kind of like PornBurger meets neurotic New York chef.

Tyler Kord, the neurotic New York chef, owns and operates NYC's No. 7 restaurant and No. 7 Sub shops. In A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches, Kord shares recipes and ruminations, both unique to the chef's psyche and, some would say, genius. His sandwiches look delicious. His mind looks...like it never stops racing at Formula 1 speeds. Vrrroooom! Full eats ahead.

When I see the title F*ck, That's Delicious, all I can think of are the words, "Mm-hmm! This is a tasty burger!" I wonder if Action Bronson uses Jules Winnfield, or the Jules Winnfield talking action figure, as inspiration for his food musings and explorations like I do.

Whatever Bronson uses, you'll see them all put to paper in the forthcoming F*ck, That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well. It's a book the former chef and current rapper (the Reverse Snoop Dogg, if you will) wrote not as some syrupy autobio or tough-guy memoir, but as a "devotional." An ode to the power of food "replete with orgiastic recipes, world travel, siren songs, and weed."

Don't worry, anti-potters, I'm sure he just means dandelion greens.

Good thing Shia La Beouf spent 25 hours in a New York City jail for acting like an asshat at a Broadway musical a couple years ago, or else the world may never have had Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars. And, more importantly, Shia's recipe for Egg Ramen Salad Sandwiches.

Clifton Collins Jr. co-starred with LaBeouf in 2015's Man Down. He released Prison Ramen with childhood friend and ex-con and Gustavo Alvarez shortly thereafter. The book is an anthology of inmates' tales of life behind bars paired with 65 of the best meals they've ever concocted from Ramen noodles. Such as:

Ramen Goulash. Black Bean Ramen. Onion Tortilla Ramen Soup. The Jailhouse Hold Burrito. Slash's J-Walking Ramen (yes, that Slash). And Orange Porkies, chili Ramen with white rice, half a bag of pork skins, and orange-flavored punch. Pretty much anything the prisoners can get at their commissaries, and we can get at the gas station convenience store.

Thug Kitchen, in the piped icing vein of What the F*@# Should I Make for Dinner, has parlayed a recipe blog and the gratuitous use of profanity into a cookbook. And although I'm pretty sure noting Thug Kitchen on the Web is "beloved by Gwyneth Paltrow" is less of a top Thug Kitchen in print selling point than it is a great way to ensure no one will buy your fucking book ever, the real-world, no-frills food the TK authors use to cook up healthy, bomb-ass dishes like Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos still make Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck worth a second look.

Over 100 recipes, from bitch-ass soup to motherfucking nuts, fill the full-color pages of Thug Kitchen. The cookbook also contains supplemental information on cooking techniques, shopping on a budget, and hopefully slaying fuckball onions without crying like a pussy.

All the thugliness, half the effort. Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck follows up its bestselling debut with this faster, simpler, and more f*cking thugged out motherf*cker of a cookbook, Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as F*ck. From comfort food to one pot meals, these b*tches guarantee all their recipes will be healthier, tastier, cheaper, and quicker to hit up your stomach than delivery.

Thug Kitchen recipes are always at least 5 out of 10 funny, and their accompanying photographs at least 5 out of 10 something I would eat. The only real problem with the Thug lifestyle is that it's plant based. Like, the whole book is vegetarian. That's pretty bad news if you're on a vegetable-free diet.