Zombie Dachshund posted:

^ that looks great! I approve of a pea-based substitution; I love peas.

Anyway, it's a real bummer that the Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook isn't available on Marvel Unlimited. It is available, posted in full or close to it, on somebody's blog. I won't link because but it's out there and not hard to find.

And like almost all cookbooks, it's a time capsule of the culture that produced it: in this case, the olden days of 1977. First up, the recipes are terrible. Just the worst of midcentury American cooking. Almost all the recipes involve "convenience" ingredients. Canned soup? Oh my stars and garters, yes! Canned vegetables instead of fresh? By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, you'd better believe it! It's a good reminder of how we have moved on (well, many of us have) culinarily: Glob Herman's vegetarian laksa recipe, by contrast, uses lots of fresh ingredients and shows a cultural influence broader than "The Campbell Soup Company." (To be fair, while it's not a difficult recipe, it's also way more work than anything in the MMSC.)

The 1977 cookbook is also casually, cringily racist, especially with Shang-Chi's rice recipe and a kung-fu foe of his speaking fake Chinese. I was worried we'd have chicken recipes from Luke Cage but fortunately (?) there's just a picture of a worried-looking Howard the Duck.



Namor's tuna salad is fine, I guess. And baked hoagies are good, though I wonder what size bread Cap imagines us using that calls for a quarter cup of margarine but only three slices of ham? But Spidey's "parmigiani" is a real . It's a Monte Cristo sandwich! That's a perfectly good sandwich. Spidey, you're from Queens! You know about eggplant/chicken/veal parmesan; why give yours a fake Italian name? Just say "it's gooey, like my web fluid!" or something.

This is another favorite of mine:



Doctor Strange doesn't have time to cook!

It's probably not fair for me, an experienced cook in 2020, to make fun of a cookbook from 1977, written for kids and non-cooking nerds, in a time when cooking was way more of a niche hobby than it is today. It's a fun read and I encourage everybody to seek it out. But it's tough for me to find much that I'd actually want to make from it!