By Chris Roberts
Cooking with medical cannabis is nothing new, not for
Californians nor for anyone who's attended a jam band concert anytime
over the past 40-plus years (goo balls, anyone?).
But now, marijuana cooking has gone mainstream, according to the East Bay Express.
The first-ever High Times Cannabis Cookbook will be released on Friday,
just in time for April 20, the newspaper reported. The 50 recipes will
"challenge top chefs" as well as amateurs, the newspaper reported.
It's perhaps no coincidence
that this mainstreaming -- the Los Angeles Times's Pulitzer-winning
food critic recently wrote of a nine-course gourmet meal that included
raw yellowtail tuna and compressed watermelon, all infused with cannabis
-- comes at the same time the federal government is conducting a
coordinated crackdown. The feds say that individual patients are not
priorities, but that "pot shops" must be stopped.
This could be a "tacit
endorsement" of the recipes proffered by the cookbooks, the newspaper
postulated. "There's too many people to go after individuals," said High
Times cookbook author Elise McDonough, in comments to the newspaper.
"We want people to be able to be self-sufficient, we want them to have
information to do it correctly, safely, and have it be delicious as
well."
The movement could also
improve the medicinal offerings -- known as "edibles" -- available for
purchase on dispensaries' shelves. Cookies, cakes, and treats made with
Fruity Pebbles? Sacramento chef Ed Murrieta, who wrote some of the
recipes in the book, thinks pot users can do much better.
What about Vegan Cannabis
Carrot Muffins and Chewy Cannabis Caramels, or Wake and Bake Eggnog
French Toast and Granny's Ganja Smoked Mac 'n' Cheese? It's a brave new
world, and former smokers are cooking in it.
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