It's 2025, and we're sadder than ever!

Maybe it's time for a Sad Bastard Cookbook sequel? Maybe a spin-off for parents of small children? Maybe both?

Glad you asked! We wrote a cookbook full of judgement-free recipes you can make when you're suffering from mental illness, physical disability, poverty, or anything else late-stage capitalism throws up that makes basic self-care feel impossible. Some of the recipes were our own, some we collected from the community. 

The ebook is free--you can download a copy here if you wanna check it out.

YES PLEASE.

Keep scrolling, the submission point is after all this text.

The Sad Bastard Sequel is gonna be vegetarian & vegan survival food for adults, so anything that fits in that description.

The Sad Bastard Spin-off will focus on survival for parents of 0-5 year-olds. These are recipes that burnt-out parents can make for the kids, but also feed the whole family--ain't nobody got time to cook separate meals. It'll include meat but we'll make sure there are veg recipes too.

We'll look over the recipes we get from the community, and turn them into cohesive cookbooks. We'll thank all our contributors in the Acknowledgments section.

And we promise that we will provide the ebook version of the cookbook for free. Your recipe might be the thing that gets someone through a bad day.

This form will be open til May 1, 2025.

Birthing a cookbook has some similarities with birthing a baby. (Also some very important differences.) Once you'd done this enormous task, you might be really tired. You might say, "I'm done forever," when what you mean is, "I'm done until enough time has passed that I forget what I just went through."

But in specific, this change-of-heart is Rohan O'Duill's fault. He's the professional chef who beta read the OG Sad Bastard Cookbook to make sure our recipes were fit for human consumption. We offered him a co-authorship for his labours, but as he felt that he wasn't a Sad Bastard, he declined and asked to be in the Acknowledgements.

Fast forward to now, when he's got a toddler of his own, and he is as burnt-out exhausted as a man can get. We were chatting about his experiences as an executive chef meal-planning for a series of 8 creches (for the non-Irish readers: childcare centers), and how he basically has a cookbook-worth of recipes from his 7-year stint, but how he still finds himself run-down and struggling when it's his own kid and he doesn't have an entire team of chefs cooking beside him.

That seemed like the kind of inspiration that sparks a cookbook. A very Sad Bastard Cookbook.

So blame Rohan for being the inspiration for us picking back up the mantle.

Of course! nightbeatseu@gmail.com