The Official Wednesday Cookbook: The Woefully Weird Recipes of Nevermore Academy

The Official Wednesday Cookbook: The Woefully Weird Recipes of Nevermore Academy

Re-create macabre meals from Nevermore Academy in the comfort of your own oh-so-normal kitchen with sixty recipes inspired by the hit series Wednesday.   You are cordially invited to enter the wrought-iron gates of the Nevermore Academy to discover its darkest culinary delights. These sixty remarkable recipes from our illustrious and historic community offer something for everyone, whether you crave meat like a werewolf or grapple with special culinary requirements (like an allergy to food with any color in it). Vegetarian and pescatarian offerings abound, as well as substitutes for dishes that use gluten, dairy, or ritualistic murder—with torturously tasty photographs for all the recipes.   We dare you to try: • Wednesday’s Woeful Waffles (which are pitch black, of course) • Enid’s rainbow-sprinkled . . . well, everything • Morticia’s Magnetic Migas • Gomez’s Black Heart Chicken Breast • Edgar Allen Poe’tatoes • Uncle Fester’s Famous Brain Roast   This tome also shares expert tips on how to entertain Nevermore Academy-style, so you can throw your own Rave’N Ball, Freaksgiving Feast, or Secret Society Social.    Join us at the Nevermore Academy table and prepare to eat like an Outcast. Mari Mancusi regrets having never applied to Nevermore Academy, as she’s certain she’d have fit right in. An Emmy-winning former television producer and author of more than thirty books—including The Nightmare Before Christmas Twisted Tale from Disney Press—she has always been a huge Tim Burton fan and has streamed Wednesday more times than Thing has fingers. When not writing, she enjoys going to Disney World, playing video games, and watching scary (and cheesy!) horror movies.   Jarrett Melendez is an award-winning comic book writer, cookbook author, and food journalist. His work has appeared in Bon Appétit, Saveur, Epicurious , and Food52, and he is the author of My Pokémon Baking Book and RuneScape The Official Cookbook . His best-known work is Chef’s Kiss from Oni Press, which won the Alex Award from the American Library Association and was nominated for both a GLAAD award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens. Melendez grew up on the mean, deer-infested streets of Bucksport, Maine, but now lives in Massachusetts with his collection of Monokuro Boo plush pigs. MEMORANDUM FROM : The Nevermore Academy Faculty RE : The Official Wednesday Cookbook Greetings! And welcome to Nevermore Academy! Outreach Day is here once again! This time of year, we at Nevermore Academy like to pull back the ivy and allow a sneak peek into our otherworldly operations in an effort to foster peace and harmony between Outcasts and the rest of the world. In the past, we’ve sent students out into your local community to volunteer their services and showcase their talents. But this year we hoped to do things a little differently (as well as sidestep some unfortunate . . . incidents . . . that may or may not have been incited by a certain now-deceased Nevermore Academy educator). Our idea was simple. Instead of having our pupils join you in your community, we wanted to invite you to join them here at Nevermore Academy—to grant you the privilege of taking a terrifying tour behind the vaunted iron gates and see Nevermore Academy firsthand, in all its gloomy glory. But then we talked to our board. In the end, the powers that be decided that for the safety of all normies involved (as well as the safekeeping of some school secrets), it might be wiser to open our doors to you metaphorically instead. Which brings us to this book— an official Nevermore Academy cookbook, showcasing a taste of everything we offer at our illustrious institution. We hope you understand. Up until now, these recipes were kept hidden from the rest of the world in our special Nevermore Academy secret library, guarded by our illustrious alumnus Edgar Allan Poe. But now, in a gesture of goodwill, we are releasing them into the world so you and your family can re-create the macabre meals we love in the comfort of your own oh-so-normal kitchen. A little background about our school for those of you unfamiliar: Founded in 1791 by Nathaniel Faulkner, an explorer who traveled the world cataloging Outcasts, Nevermore Academy has grown into a thriving institution and safe haven for those deemed “other.” For more than two hundred years we’ve been nurturing and educating Outcasts, freaks, and monsters. And today we offer a rigorous academic experience, as well as world-class extracurriculars (archery, fencing, Séance Society, even beekeeping). And, most important, we help our students grow into their full potential, no matter how peculiar they might be. Whether they identify as a werewolf, vampire, siren, gorgon, shapeshifter, or psychic, our academy is a place they can all call home. Let’s be clear. This is no ordinary cookbook. Since our student body hails from all over the world (and underworld), each student come