Celebrities can't resist writing children's books, so it would only make sense that a rapper would release a new cookbook.
On Friday, the Chicago Tribune's The Stew flipped through Cookin' With Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1-Star Price -- a new cookbook set to drop be released in November by Simon & Schuster.
In advance of the book, Coolio (born Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.) has been recording a Web cooking show of the same name, knocking out dishes like Tricked Out Westside Tilapia, Swashbucklin' Shrimp and Spinach Even Your Kids Will Eat. If those recipes seem slightly disjointed, watch a few videos. The casting swings widely between extras seemingly plucked from "Gangsta's Paradise," and slightly bewildered children.
But it's tough to dismiss Coolio based on what he said when
interviewed by Newsweek in 2008, shortly after launching his cooking
show:
We use foods that poor people can afford. I'll take a chicken outta
Compton and make it taste better than Foster Farms. I'll take a cow
from Brooklyn and you can go get some Kobe beef and mine will taste
better.
then he was talking about a line of frozen foods and possibly restaurants, all of which
may still be possible. Every celebrity chef just needs one hit
cookbook.
You might be skeptical, but look what Simon &
Schuster did for a struggling franchise back in 1999, when it when out
on a limb to publish a little-known series of recipes in the Star Trek Cookbook.
[Image via Flickr: Start Cooking]
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