Initially, Laurel Randolph was a food journalist, recipe tester and expert on Instant Pot cookbooks. But somewhere along the way she decided to take aim at our funny bones.
She started a “Cooking the Simpsons” series for Paste magazine and later, The Joy of Cooking Milhouse blog. Now she’s the author of “The Unofficial Simpsons Cookbook: From Krusty Burgers to Marge’s Pretzels, Famous Recipes from Your Favorite Cartoon Family” (Adams Media, $22).
She’s gathered 70 silly and serious ones, from Marge’s Patented Happy Cracker Snack Platter to Forbidden Doughnuts and Moe’s Hobo Chicken Chili, and written whimsical, sometimes laugh-out-loud intros.
Naturally, we had questions.
Q: I was going to ask what kind of person gets obsessed with “The Simpsons.” But the more I thought about it — what kind of person doesn’t get obsessed with “The Simpsons”? It’s still wildly popular after 31 seasons.
A: The fans range in age, even in personality, and they’re from all over the world. People follow my Instagram in Australia, Venezuela, all these different countries. So it has this really amazing popularity.
Q: How did you decide which recipes made the final cut?
A: I didn’t want all the recipes to come from, say, one season. And I wanted to address what’s the most popular, like what do people reference all the time and what would they want to see in a book? We wanted to capture the attitude of the show. And if someone saw it on a shelf or online, they would instantly know, that’s a Simpsons thing. The show’s playful, very colorful very funny — and so, if the book wasn’t all of those things I don’t think it would have been a very good Simpsons cookbook.
Q: Did you make this book for families to cook together? I can imagine mom pulling Marge’s Pork Chops out of the oven while the kids make the happy cracker snacks and dad mixes a Flaming Moe.
A: I definitely tried to make it an all-ages cookbook. I really envisioned people of all ages making these and then watching the episode together like that. That’s kind of my dream scenario.
Q: The other thing I appreciated is with your experience as a test kitchen whiz, the recipes are legit.
A: It was really important to me that the recipes work really well. I think there’s kind of a bias about entertainment cookbooks — that people buy them because they want to give a gift to someone who likes that thing, and the recipes aren’t very good. But these are extensively tested recipes. I tried to make them easy and fun and delicious.
Q: The Paul and Linda McCartney’s Lentil Soup recipe is delicious.
A: The fun thing about that lentil soup recipe is that it is verbatim in the episode. If you play the credits backwards, I think it’s Paul McCartney reading the recipe.
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