Comfort Eating With Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes To Get Deep Inside of You
Bury your feelings with recipes that feel good inside
Find good cries, good laughs, and good meals all in the brand-new paperback edition of this Microcosm classic by beloved illustrator Automne Zingg and vegan chef extraordinaire Joshua Ploeg
Mr. Cave finds healthy ways to feed and soothe his sorrows in these pages, featuring cool Cave-based illustrations and rockin’ vegan recipes from mashed potatoes to tofu dogs. Whomst among us doesn’t need to passionately tell a slice of pizza to “get inside of me” from time to time?
For plant-based snackers, rock music weirdos, Red Hand Files followers, or anyone with a sense of humor and a more-than-usual number of feelings, this comfort food cookbook lets us all shed a few tears and self-soothe with food together.
Read on for a sneak peek at Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to Get Deep Inside of You by Joshua Ploeg and Automne Zingg, shipping now from our site or available from your local bookseller September 23!
In 2013, I was broke, living in Los Angeles, and going through a terrible breakup. It was probably one of the darkest times in my life and I felt inconsolable. I wasn’t working. I wasn’t eating. I wasn’t drinking. I wasn’t doing much of anything except writing depressing songs and listening to even more depressing ones from my youth. I found it curious that the bands that got me through the general malaise of being a sad teenage goth served as a type of sonic comfort food for me as an even sadder adult. Was I having a midlife crisis?
Nick Cave was a particular go-to for me during that time, and he became the musical equivalent to my grandmother’s lasagna. I devoured his music and binge listened for months. It was familiar and comforting; I thought whatever feeling emotional eaters gained from consuming a pint of ice cream, I got from blasting “Your Funeral…My Trial.” As heartbroken as I was, I reminded myself that Nick Cave had been through much worse. I wondered what he did during those trying times and found myself unconsciously doodling pictures of him weeping while eating. Each day the drawings got a little weirder and my mood got a little better. Eventually, these drawings became a zine, and that zine has now became this cookbook.
Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to Get Deep Inside of You is dedicated to anyone nursing a broken heart, a beer, and a burrito. Come for my illustrations of a weeping Nick Cave shoving funeral potatoes in his mouth. Stay for the incredibly tasty vegan recipes created by the inimitable Joshua Ploeg.
Nom nom nom. Boo hoo hoo.
Want to keep reading? Get the rest of Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to Get Deep Inside of You by Joshua Ploeg and Automne Zingg, shipping now from our site or coming to a bookstore shelf near you September 23!