The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music

Zero, One Ring

ISBN 10: 1936787008 ISBN 13: 9781936787005

Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

What began as a simple idea: take the recipes of today's top chefs, set them to music, and sing them word for word. The result is a quirky, remarkably catchy cd-book combo that poses some timely questions about the glories of music and food.

If chefs are the new rock stars, why not celebrate them as exactly that? And how loud can David Chang play The Kinks before his restaurant patrons walk out?

Here, in one totally unnecessary collection, you get it all: the album of songs, the brilliant recipes, plus personal interviews with the famed chefs about everything from childhood violin lessons to teenage Van Halen haircuts. Along the way, some of the most noteworthy culinary writers in the country--including Melissa Clark and John T. Edge--weigh in on how food and music have helped them survive screaming newborns, religious fundamentalism, and dinner with grandma.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released nine albums, including the literary collaboration As Smart As We Are (The Author Project), featuring lyrics by Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, and Neil Gaiman, among others; Planets, a collection of new compositions to represent the solar system and beyond; and their most recent, The Recipe Project, in which the band has taken recipes from today's top chefs (Mario Batali, Tom Colicchio, David Chang, etc.), set them to music, and sing them word for word.

From the Back Cover

"Need fun stuff for the super-music-nerd-foodie who has everything? Here ya go!"
Ted Allen, host of Food Network's "Chopped"
"The Recipe Project" began as a simple idea: take the recipes of today s top chefs, set them to music, and sing them word for word. The result is a quirky, remarkably catchy cd-book combo that poses some timely questions about the glories of music and food. If chefs are the new rock stars, why not celebrate them as exactly that? And how loud can David Chang play The Kinks before his restaurant patrons walk out?
Here, in one totally unnecessary collection, you get it all: the album of songs, the brilliant recipes, plus personal interviews with the famed chefs about everything from childhood violin lessons to teenage Van Halen haircuts. Along the way, some of the most noteworthy culinary writers in the countryincluding Melissa Clark and John T. Edgeweigh in on how food and music have helped them survive screaming newborns, religious fundamentalism, and dinner with grandma."

From the Inside Flap

"The Recipe Project" began as a lark. Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, co-founders of the band One Ring Zero, decided to turn Chris Cosentino s recipe for Brains and Eggs into a songword for word, phrase for phrase, including Remove the brains from the water with a perforated spoon and place on a plate. As if that wasn t trickyor bizarreenough, they asked Cosentino to recommend a music style. Beastie Boys, he replied. With an innocent grin.
The result was a fast, raucous ode to white-boy hip-hop jams and edible offal that, not surprisingly, caused a fair degree of uncontrollable laughter in the studio. The fact that the song also highlighted more serious culinary concerns of Cosentino sthe importance of cooking with all the parts of an animal and not just the pretty and palatable meatscame up only after the fact.
But it was enough to inspire Cosentino to call up a few of his chef friends like Aaron Sanchez and Michael Symon. They wanted recipe-songs too, Sanchez opting for traditional Mexican brass-band Banda. And Symon? Heavy metal, with a side of demon screaming.
By the time Hearst told his friend Leigh Newmana longtime writer for food and travel magazines who was just hatching plans for Black Balloon Publishing with co-founder Elizabeth Kochabout the project, One Ring Zero had six recipe-songs recorded. The two combined forces to recruit new chefs, as well as bring in some of best food writers in the country. The result: Listen, read, laugh, dance in the kitchen, and taste for yourself.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936787008
• ISBN 13: 9781936787005
• Binding: Product Bundle
• Number of pages: 116
• Editor: Newman Leigh, Hearst Michael