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There are hundreds upon thousands of cookbooks designed to help men succeed in the kitchen and make a strong first impression with ladies, but they take a typical approach: simple dishes, flashy presentation, and trivia to drop casually in order to sound informed. This book stands out because it empowers and encourages blokes (of both the male and female variety) to follow the bloke’s code—using one’s senses and instincts to feel through the cooking process and create wholly unique dishes that excite as much as they nourish. Without a single recipe within its covers, readers of this book will learn a brand-new way of cooking using adequate preparation beforehand, compartmentalizing tasks, and envisioning the finished product and working backward to deduce all the required steps.
There is a constant tongue-in-cheek quality to this book, as it gleans purported wisdom from various historical figures on the subject of cooking, creativity, and the general qualities of being a bloke. Pages are filled with either inspirational and instructional writing, brilliant full-color photographs of mouth-watering food, or helpful charts that readers can fill out or copy in order to visualize a dish and plan for its eventual preparation. The approach here is definitely the most striking aspect: creating a cookbook that teaches a mentality rather than providing a list of directions to follow. But like a popular and satisfying dinner, it’s the combination of ingredients that makes this guide shine. Making use of comedy and self-help approaches, believing in its readers to accomplish things they might not believe themselves, and offering up some yummy visuals to add some extra encouragement should be more than enough inspiration to get the audience cooking.