Synopses & Reviews
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In the past several years, the ever-expanding sea of cookbooks has become quickly polluted by the flotsam of unnecessarily niche titles. Are you looking for cookbooks on flavored butters, semen, or Haylie Duff? What about recipes for white LA hipster vegans who style themselves thugs ? Indeed, they re out there. But now there is a cookbook that rises above the junk and it s specifically designed for a subculture of hirsute, hyper-masculine homosexuals. That s right: Bears just got their very own cookbook. Photographer Angelo Sindaco s Cooking with the Bears: Healthy Recipes by Hairy Men (published by Drago) is dedicated to these furry fellows and the food they love to eat, and I ll be damned if it isn t delightful. The 32 recipes in the book covering everything from tagliatelle alla Bolognese to Chumbo Cupcakes come directly from Italian bears themselves, photographed in their own home kitchens. And even though many of the bears included in the project were shot in various states of undress, this isn t a just coffee table tome for fetishists. Writing in the book s foreword, AccidentalBear.com founder Mike Enders notes: By my own observation, bears love to cook, and eat, hence their voluptuous, sexy, furry curves. Viewing the bear scene in a different way, not necessarily related to sex or erotica, leather, or cigars is quite refreshing. I m told that they thought those themes had long been exploited and played out. While there is plenty of testosterone on display in Cooking with the Bears (the sheer size some of those biceps make me blanch with envy) there is also tenderness. Consider Enzo, a fast-food worker who has collected over 400 Barbie dolls. There s also Flavio, a Queer Mountaineer who never leaves the house without his leather braces, but still dreams of being photographed naked like Mena Suvari in that iconic image from American Beauty but covered in tortellini rather than rose petals. Eager to learn more about these lovable cubs, I got in touch with Sindaco to ask him about the genesis of his project, and which of his bears recipes make his stomach growl."
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Realized by Angelo Sindaco in collaboration with Andrea Signori, Cooking with the Bears - Healthy Recipes by Hairy Men is the first cook-book dedicated to the world of Bears. From Gramigna with Sausages to Guinness Cake, from Folktronic Spaghetti to Alternative Caponata, the 32 recipes collected in this cook-book have been selected by as much members (or couples of members) of the Bear community, portrayed by Angelo Sindaco while preparing their dishes. The book features a preface by Mike Enders, founder of AccidentalBear.com, benchmark for queer art, culture, fashion and, most of all, music.
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"Now there is a cookbook that rises above the junk--and it's specifically designed for a subculture of hirsute, hyper-masculine homosexuals. That's right: Bears just got their very own cookbook."-Vice Munchies. Cooking with the Bears is the first and only book that uniquely captures "bears" creating delicious Italian dishes in their own kitchens. Photographer Angelo Sindaco explores this fascinating culture through a series of "intimate portraits" that "seize the soul, the spirit, and the style of his subjects." -Satellite Magazine. From Gramigna with Sausages to Guinness Cake, from Folktronic Spaghetti to Alternative Caponata, the 32 distinctive recipes in this cook-book offer an entertaining insight into cooking in the bear's den. The book even features a foreword by Mike Enders, the founder of AccidentalBear.com, the benchmark for gay art, culture, fashion and music.
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- Italy's hirsute hunks share their best recipes - From Gramigna with Sausages to Guinness Cake, and from Folktronic Spaghetti to Alternative Caponata, the 32 distinctive recipes in this cook-book offer an entertaining insight into cooking in the bear's den - Features a foreword by Mike Enders, the founder of AccidentalBear.com, the benchmark for gay art, culture, fashion and music That's right: Bears just got their very own cookbook. Cooking with the Bears is the first and only book that uniquely captures bears creating delicious Italian dishes in their own kitchens. "Giving a middle finger to accepted body standards and homophobia at home," writes Vice, "Cooking with the Bears is dedicated to these furry fellows and the food they love to eat, and I'll be damned if it isn't delightful."