Book review: Parody cookbook 'Fifty Shades of Chicken'

Book review: Parody cookbook 'Fifty Shades of Chicken'. May. 12, 2016 07:43. by 구가인기자 comedy9@donga.com.

"I want to cook you," he whispers. "Whole." Oh my. I’m heating from the inside out.

Don't get this wrong. This is an excerpt from a cookbook titled "Fifty Shades of Chicken," a parody of bestseller "Fifty Shades of Gray." While the latter describes the love of a college female student and a billionaire, this parody book is a story of an ordinary raw chicken getting to know a cook and transforming into a chicken that pushes luck too far, and includes 50 chicken food recipes.

"Baking Bad" is a parody of U.S. drama "Breaking Bad," while "Snacking Dead" is a parody of "Walking Dead." As such, there are many cookbooks inspired by popular movies or novels. Among them, "Fifty Shades of Chicken" has been sold more than 250,000 copies.

There is also a recipe book titled "50 Shades of Bacons," which mixes sexual code to chicken recipes. But the recipes are mostly for Western people. Food ingredients are unfamiliar while many recipes need an oven.