Un-Cook Yourself: A Ratbag's Rules for Life

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It is part memoir, part self-help book filled with the internal conflict of someone who has built a career out of hanging shit on stuff but believes it's not fair to make fun of people and if something makes you happy and doesn't hurt anyone else, go for it.

Nat doesn’t quite redefine how a book should be written in the way he redefined the cooking video, but his book is well worth a read. If there’s one price rise that has hit hardest during this cost-of-living crisis, it’s the cost of food. You’d be surprised how many people you get offside by putting orange with chocolate’. Photograph: Warren Mendes Features a small selection of Nat's favourite recipes illustrated by Sydney artists Bunkwaa, Glenno and Onnie O'Leary.With four books out the door amongst a hectic life of scripting, filming and editing cooking videos, as well as a worldwide comedy tour, Nat said his next step was to take a break. On December 6, 2020, Nat was the guest programmer on the Australian music video television show Rage. [14]

This is exclusively a cookbook, whereas the first two are combinations of my carrying on and worldly views,” he explained “This one is a compilation of the [recipes] in the first two but none of the other waffle.” In particular are the bits about how diet culture bamboozles people; the self-help machine; and, a world that doesn’t really loosen up easily for those who don’t always follow conventional paths. Australia’s favourite foul-mouthed cook has turned his YouTube kitchen rants into a new recipe book. When you’re looking at a dish online or you’re looking at it in a cookbook, you’d notice that they look beautiful. That’s because usually someone’s paid to make that look really beautiful,” Nat said.

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The YouTube channel began in 2006 and featured regular videos titled "Is it shit?", where Nat would review a variety of topics and decide if the topic was worthwhile. [10] Nat has recently collaborated with the likes of GoPro, Young Henry’s and Milkrun and featured several big names on his channel including Courtney Act, Briggs and Machine Gun Kelly. (The annual Christmas Crossover episode with Briggs has become a strong fan fave.)

It’s best to ask the artist what they need. They’re all friends of mine, we’re real chatty. One way we’ve done it is I’ll send the recipe through written in my language and they’ll read through that and be like, ‘Oh, I’ve got these ideas for this kind of thing. Maybe this could be like that.’ I might have ideas too. And, you know, I kind of collaborate a bit there,” he explained. “We started doing a thing where the artists would, like, send me a picture of them just holding a thing, gesturing, and asking ‘Could you do this?’ So I just, you know, took a photo of myself doing the same shit.” I like Nat. He seems like a genuinely nice guy, and reading UN-COOK YOURSELF gave me further respect for him between his health (both physical and mental) struggles and the long, meandering road he has walked to get to his current level of success. Get a slap chopper from As Seen On TV. You just slap-chop the whole thing. Just dice it all up, throw it in a bowl, cover it in a drizzle of olive oil and heaps of lime juice. Then I’ll stir it through, bang it in the fridge for half an hour, pull it out and eat it with corn chips. Happy days. Brownies (recipe below) In 2022, Nat and his channel cohort Jules launched their own Spotify Original podcast, Food Crime, a hilarious melding of their interests – true crime and food. Complete with games, wild stories and laughs aplenty, season one of Food Crime is available to listen for free, only on Spotify.A good flat one and a nice big deep one work for most stuff. Stainless steel is pretty great if you can find reasonably priced gear. 12. Kitchen scales The tastiest self-help book of this generation . . . Regardless of what you take away from Un-Cook Yourself, you’ll definitely be laughing.' Urban List Ceviche is laughably easy. There’s lots of types but my favourite one has fish, cucumber, shallots, spring onions. Plus lime juice, I use a tablespoon of Tabasco and a bit of salt.

Nat is a comedian, cook, professional potty-mouth, musician, mental health advocate and award-winning, bestselling author who happens to hate writing his own bio so has to get his partner Jules to help. (Thanks, Jules.) Jones, Matthew (15 September 2020). "Growcom partners with internet sensation". Produce Plus . Retrieved 11 September 2021. Unless you’re on the gains train, then I recommend using one for a lot of baking stuff. Whipping cream is a flog without it. 8. A decent grater or microplane

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Overall, this really is an awesome book. It would make a great gift for anyone over sixteen and although there is a bit of swearing; it’s nothing worse than what’s in his videos. In these uncertain times, it’s akin to finding a bush of rosemary in your neighbour’s front yard - aka, priceless! I cannot recommend it enough, especially if you are in need of a good laugh and a full belly. Be a champion and buy this five star read. I am shit at making food look particularly good, but it tastes good… it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look like the thing.” Smashing the fourth book