Willing Flesh, Weak Poultry. The Austrian Literary Cookbook

Austrian cuisine is neither lacking fat nor meat or sweet delicacies, but it does suffer the absence of Iiterary flavour.

In numerous cookbooks one finds recipes, but there is no literary text beyond a few quotations. This "insatiable" anthology is going to change that!

The authors have decided to make the way to Austrian food accessible through literary writings which prove to be classics, occasionally provincial, betimes absurd or outrightly "unswallowable".

This includes texts by Abraham a Sancta Clara, Johann Nestory, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Thomas Bernhard, Ernst Jandl, Helmut Qualtinger, Robert Menasse and many more. In addition, the reader learns a lot about ancient and current recipes from all Austrian regions - going from the rural kitchen to the famous Viennese "coffee culture" - as well as about the authors.