B. F. Skinner's How to Shock and Blanch Asparagus

What was evil Dr. Skinner doing in his dark, damp, behaviorist lab? This  recipe is a vegetarian horror story with an avian hero.This clip animates one of the illustrated recipes in the funny little gift book, NIETZSCHE'S ANGEL FOOD CAKE: And Other "Recipes" for the Intellectually Famished, by Rebecca Coffey. Literary humor for those who enjoy smashing idols fondly, NIETZSCHE'S allows 22 cultural monoliths to share "their" succulent recipes. It's cookery that insinuates the hard questions, and it offers a surprisingly informative and entirely whirlwind tour of civilization. Not really a cookbook, it's for lovers of literature, history, art, music, and philosophy, for foodies, and for anyone with a good liberal arts education—no matter how vaguely they remember it.