KELLY HUDSON and DAN KLEIN discuss their book FUDS: A COMPLETE ENCYCLOFOODIA FROM TICKLING SHRIMP TO NOT DYING IN A RESTAURANT

FUDS: A Complete Encyclofoodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying In A Restaurant (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Since the FUDS parody menu went viral through the Brooklyn foodie scene, then the broader food world and the even broader Internet in 2012, people have been clamoring for the recipes behind those menu items. (Well, actually, no, they haven't, because most of them consisted of baffling nonsense words [Mini-hrak cuddles with malonies] or otherwise sounded disgusting [Dead dog co-plated with yam clippings and a leafy sage dumping.] Oftentimes, both.)

BUT.

People HAVE been clamoring for more of the deliciously absurd humor that characterizes the FUDS brand. And since that spot-on menu send-up, the young comedians behind it have spun out an entire "cookbook and field guide." Here are tips on planning a seasonal menu that's likely to make your guests ill; tips on kitchen safety that could leave your sous-chefs badly charred. And, of course, recipes for all the FUDS classics: Roundeye Flank Stringers with a Yankee-Poisoned Marinara and Fuzzy Rice Curds, Shitty Chicken Spanked with Cinnamon-Garlic Dirt and Dimpled with a Freshwater Whale-Tit Sauce . . . and the cult classic Bill Clinton Sandwich! The cookbook is designed and illustrated with a straight face--with a foreword by master chef Mario Batali--perfectly balancing the anarchic humor suffusing this parody. Your pretentious foodie friend has been asking for it: introduce them to the wonderful world of FUDS.

Praise for FUDS:

"This is the greatest book about food ever written since "Food Moby Dick."" - Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

"For anyone interested in culinary writing, I urge you to read it. I mean, you don't have to. I don't want to force you. No one has to do anything they don't want to." - Jenny Slate, Human Woman

"Take three teaspoons of genius, two cups of brilliance, and one pint of YES and you've got FUDS." - Aidy Bryant, Saturday Night Live

"I've been eating food for most of my life, but I never knew just how complicated, glorious, effervescent, and metaphysical it could be until I read FUDS.- David Rees, author, How to Sharpen Pencils

"I highly recommend this book to those who haven't read it yet, like me." - Robert Smigel, TV Funhouse

"I don't need this stinky little book." - Mario Batali, from the Foreword

Kelly Hudson is a writer and producer for AdultSwim.com.

Dan Klein is a writer for Funny Or Die.