Fairies in the Kitchen: Recipes from the Weetzie Bat Series, Paperback

Reading about fictional food can be agonizing-especially when it sounds mouthwateringly good and you have no idea how to make it. Weetzie Bat fans, worry no more Now you can experience the rejuvenating fun of eating well with your favorite punk pixie and her colorful friends and family.

Carmen Staton brings award-winning Francesca Lia Block's creative cuisine to life with the Fairies in the Kitchen cookbook. This collaborative collection of recipes reveals how a splash of creativity and a sprinkling of love-mixed with quality, wholesome ingredients-can create food that restores as well as nourishes.

Drawing from the first five books of the Dangerous Angels series, Staton has worked her own magic in the kitchen to uncover the formulas for dishes such as Jah-Love Black Beans & Plantains, Coyote's Cornmeal Cakes, and Dirk's Chocolate Raspberry Kiwi Birthday Cake.

While this is certainly a must-have for anyone who loves the Weetzie Bat books, it's also simply a great cookbook filled with imaginative, healthy recipes for anyone looking to enliven their culinary repertoire.

Francesca Lia Block, the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, and poetry, has received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award, and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award. Her books have been translated into numerous languages, and she has also published stories, poems, essays, and interviews in various periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, the LA Review of Books, and Spin. Block teaches fiction workshops at UCLA Extension and Antioch University, as well as privately in Los Angeles, where she was born, raised, and still lives.

Carmen Staton is a foodie, writer, voracious reader, movie watcher, and nature lover. She lives in Laguna Niguel, California, where she enjoys daily walks with her daughter and dog. Staton is working on several writing projects and hopes to follow up her debut cookbook with a second in the near future.