The Crabby Cook - by Jessica Harper

Halloween is the best holiday for Crabby Cooks: no cooking, and you can be a witch with impunity! Read More

First there was that L.A. Times recipe for  coffee cake that was supposedly so delicious you’d want to “eat it on your deathbed,” as your last supper. Then I stumbled across a recipe for “Dead Guy Sauce” (which had, by the way, a mystifyingly benign ingredient list–no hemlock, say, or piggy entrails–and no other explanation for its suggestive title). Next, a recipe for “Drop Dead Brownies” caught my eye on Twitter, and I started to get the culinary creeps. Read More

Shortly after I posted the video about my husband Tom’s struggle to prepare canned soup, my friend Carla showed me an e-mail her mom had received from Carla’s dad, shortly after Mom left town for a few days, leaving Dad to cope: Read More