Because I only have one fucking food tradition. And it’s hard to describe, but the recipe in that story is literally my biggest food tradition. My parents would get my grandparents to ship up the block of potato mix that you need for it and it’s made in this small maritime town and you buy these potato blocks and you make, pretty much, a solidified chicken soup pie. But my grandmother would have it maybe three times a year. And very few people in the maritimes make it. And it’s like, why the fuck am I known for cheeseburgers?! I write about that, inner monologue, and there’s that kind of honesty.Īnd then some of my favorite recipes, like the biggest one, the one that’s the truest, realest, no fucking around, is my grandmother’s Rappie pie, which is an Acadian dish that we make every year for Christmas Eve. And I’m kind of known for doing cheeseburgers. Like there’s recipes in there where I talk about how much I fucking hate - like my cheeseburger recipe from Parts & Labour, the whole thing is about how much I fucking hate it. There’s some stuff that I write that I’m really negative about.
Is there a favorite recipe in the book or a page you particularly like? Was there a section in the book you really love? The biggest risk I think I’ve ever taken is believing in myself. And I wrote half the book on my cell phone cause I don’t even own a laptop. But I think this is very true to me, actually. I think a lot of people have seen the Matty that’s loud and crazy and all that kind of shit. It’s like a Matty that people haven’t seen before. I think it’s just me, but it’s still very sweet and it’s very vulnerable and it’s real. I don’t know if somebody’s written a cookbook with that type of analogy in it. When was the last time you said a sauce was so good you could put it on a diaper and suck it off? That shows how good it is. I wrote this whole thing and they’re like, “Literally, this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever read in a cookbook and this does not sound appetizing.” And I’m like, no it sounds very appetizing. Yeah, I think my copy editors a lot of the times - I had to fight them, like what do you mean? I reference a maple bacon Jack Daniel’s sauce that I used to put on a pork chop at this restaurant, “You could pour this on like a burning baby diaper and suck it off like a soup dumpling from a Chinatown Chinese restaurant.
From picking blackberries in the back yard with my grandmother, to doing cocaine with chefs in Toronto, to learning how to cook French food. Sleeping in like the soda pop shop banquette. It’s definitely more cookbook than story. And the thing that it is, it is an actual cookbook. That’s why I think that this book is so great. No one’s done it the way that I’ve done it and I’m just out here telling my story.Īnd that’s all that this book is, my story, so no one can tell it better than me. And I think that there’s only one Matty Matheson. Venison Tartare with Warm Bone Marrow DrippingsĢ.There’s a ton of cookbooks out there, why does the world need a Matty Matheson cookbook? What did you think you could provide the world with?Įveryone needs the Matty Matheson cookbook because a) I am the best c) this is the greatest cookbook ever written and l) I think that Matty Matheson is an inspiration to all, including himself, me. Part II: Cooking School and Restaurants - "Humber College"ĥ. Broccoli Chicken Cheddar Curry Casseroleħ. Part I: Family - "Edith & John Matheson"ģ. Matheson is set to kick off a tour later this month, and you can find dates here.Ģ. The vinyl edition of A Cookbook is now available for pre-order. The set arrives spread across a pair of bone-coloured LPs and features all new artwork in addition to a 40-page newsprint zine featuring the recipes/ingredients of each dish, along with a song pairing from the Roadrunner catalog selected by Matheson. To release this album is more than a dream come true, this is for every kid that can't play an instrument or scream into microphone but loves the fuck out of records this is for all of us!" "I get the honour of being on that same label. "Growing up, listening to all the bands on Roadrunner Madball, Machine Head, Type O Negative, Sepultura and so on, they became the foundation of my music DNA," Matheson said in a statement. The collection will also be available through streaming services. The vinyl edition of A Cookbook arrives November 22 through Roadrunner Records, and it features 12 recipes and the stories behind them, complete with narration from Matheson himself.Ī press release claims A Cookbook will be the first book of its kind to see release on vinyl. Celebrity chef Matty Matheson explored the intersection of food and music with his very own festival earlier this summer, and he's now set to take things a step further by bringing 2018's Matty Matheson: A Cookbook to vinyl.