When I read a review of The Butch Cookbook in Between the Lines last year, I was, as my Southern grandmom would have said, tickled pink. I expected a bunch of recipes for boxed this and packaged that and half a cookbook of grilled food. Don’t ask me why given that I know a butch or two who cooks and who cook well.

When I received the book, I found not only recipes that made my mouth water but stories: butch history, quotes from butches, and lovely bios of the butches whose recipes were selected.

There were recipes that were complex and some were more simple. One cracked me up. It was Carolyn Gage’s recipe for Black Bean Dip. The first instruction is “Put it all in a blender and let ‘er rip.” There really is something for everyone in this cookbook – for experienced cooks, for the novice cook and all of us in between.

The Butch Cookbook is going to be a movie star! It’s going to be in “A Perfect Family” with Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel and others. There are lesbians in it, so you’re gonna want to see it anyway but now you even have more of a reason.

The Huffington Post is running a contest right now for The Most Unusual Cookbook. Go on over and vote for The Butch Cookbook. It’s great publicity for the book and we want to support our butches, don’t we?

Oh … and one more thing! The authors of TBC are producing a Femme Cookbooklet as a promotional item and guess whose Lemon Poundcake recipe is going to be included? Yes, darlings, mine! I’m very excited about it. I’ll let you know how to get a copy as soon as I know!

Now go vote for The Butch Cookbook!