This Ain't No Picnic: Your Punk Rock Vegan Cookbook - Paperback

by Joshua Ploeg (Author), Dalton Blanco (Photographer), Vice Cooler (Photographer)

This Ain't No Picnic is the first cookbook featuring creative and delicious recipes that match the quality and presentation of a gourmet restaurant with the self-parody and humor of punk rock culture and history. A comedic art book full of social commentary, it explores and improves the favorite foods of historic punk rockers. Through exclusive interviews, Picnic treats you to the delectibles they could--and perhaps should--have been eating. How to make s'mores with a zippo, cook without a stove or oven, and 80 new recipes of Joshua Ploeg's magical food and flavor combinations like you've never dreamed of.

Author Biography

Joshua Ploeg is a chef, writer, musician who lives currently in Billings, Montana. He has spent many years traveling the US and several other countries cooking up dinner parties and other special events, mostly traveling by bus, train or plane. He has authored dozens of zines and books, mostly cook books these days and has played in several punk rock bands. Currently he does strange and amusing folk music, esoteric endeavors, and various culinary projects. Read an interview with Joshua on our blog! Vice Cooler writes and photographs for Rolling Stone, Vice Magazine, photographs for ANP quarterly, i-D Magazine, The Wire, San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is the singer and songwriter for Hawnay Troof and Xbxrx. He was crowned by Peaches as the world's greatest performer. High Places and Henry Rollins have referred to him as an "inspiration."