The 2012 Ron Paul Family Cookbook: Paul Family Debuts Cookbook With 28 Recipes

As Ron Paul busies himself vying for the presidential candidacy, his family is supporting his cause in another way: by writing a cookbook. The 2012 Ron Paul Family Cookbook features 28 recipes from the Paul family and friends, and can be yours for only $8 from the Ron Paul 2012 website. The cookbook description suggests using it "as one of the best campaign handouts you will ever find." In addition to recipes, the book also includes Carol Paul's history of the Paul family, titled, "The American Dream."

New York Magazine's Daily Intel blog has a (fake) exclusive look at some of the recipes. For example, the description for Grandma Paul's Special Meatloaf:

We would be infringing on your liberties as an individual if we tried to dictate to you exactly which ingredients make Grandma Paul's Special Meatloaf so delicious. Any intrusion into your private decisions, whether by overreaching federal government or by seemingly harmless recipe books, is odious and un-American!

No official word yet on whether the recipes are any good. The Paul family has a tradition of writing family cookbooks.

Comments

[Patty Meade]

10:24 PM on 12/27/2011

I'm looking forward to mine, we're in CA so have to order one. My family loves home cooked meals 5 nights a week so, this will be good!

[Shawn Eng]

02:48 PM on 12/17/2011

Ron Paul is the only candidate who backs the raw milk industry. That may not mean much to policy wonks and economists but it means a lot to pockets of people spread out across the country. Calling them ignorant means NOTHING to them. Belittling their way of life means NOTHING to them. Every single sneer at homesteaders and self-reliant types further solidifies their memeplex and archetype of the urbanite. They have a robust and distributed underground ecology of publishing and podcasting, completely parallel and invisible to the major networks and certainly to many in the progressive blogosphere. This growing subculture comes complete with foundational narratives, a pantheon of martyrs and a nemesis in every bureaucrat who ever hit them with a summons. When a politician speaks to this group, never dismiss it as folksy. You may disapprove of their lifestyle, but you will never get them to align their votes with yours if you talk down to them. Never underestimate what a single comment on a trivial issue can do at the right moment.

[Jacovisio]

08:28 AM on 01/02/2012

the problem with milk is not "Raw" or "Pasteurized". The problem with milk is that humans are the only creature on earth that drink the milk of another animal. Read about the damage that milk protein does to accelerate cancer, heart disease and the onset of diabetes. And then decide whether this "raw" should be the focus of the discussion. It appears to be a focus diversionary conversation to me.

[TSRVT]

09:03 AM on 01/27/2012

*yawn*

[ydnas639]

11:20 PM on 12/03/2011

I would never buy the Paul Family Cookbook, so will someone tell me if any recipe in it follows from Jonathan Swift's modest proposal?

A Modest Proposal

For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland
From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and
For Making Them Beneficial to The Public

By Jonathan Swift (1729)

[Ashokray Tempestas]

08:46 AM on 01/27/2012

huh?

[TSRVT]

09:03 AM on 01/27/2012

Read it, you might learn something.

[ydnas639]

09:06 AM on 01/27/2012

It's been almost 2 months since I posted that, and all you can come up with is, "huh"?
Honestly I gave the title and the author, even if your reading skills are minimal you should have managed to get the gist of it in 2 months. Swift wrote satire. I did not.

[goodmarina]

10:37 PM on 12/03/2011

Are these  politicians tone deaf?

There are millions of Americans who can barely afford two decent meals a day ... and hardly the money to come up with big family meals.   American families are hurting because of economic policies that Ron Paul and his political philosophy is a part of.

Of course, if Ron Paul has things his way -- if you can figure out how to swim to "the other side" with no government intervention or oversight (because people and life is perfect - *sarcasm*)  ... then you, too, can write a 28 recipe cookbook.

[matt gerhart]

02:55 AM on 12/05/2011

http://ronpaulfooddrive.com/

There ya go buddy. How about you do some research before blasting Ron Paul

[Heck Road]

08:25 PM on 12/05/2011

Promoting cooking at home versus eating out is exactly how you help families.

[jukesgrrl]

08:29 PM on 12/03/2011

Heaven knows, if the other children turned out like Rand Paul, they must not have been eating foods that nourished the brain or one's sense of compassion.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:48 PM on 12/03/2011

Equal parts of folksy and ignorant, a big dash of smug, and some powerful drugs. Yummy.

[AJ187]

06:07 PM on 12/03/2011

I'm pretty sure you could have a story about Dr. Paul saving a kitten from a tree and the people on this site would look to disparage it with their twisted views of the Doctors philosophy. How sad for them...

[designcreature]

06:54 PM on 12/02/2011

Maybe he can come up with a tasty way to do horsemeat since our glorious leader, the guy that flip flops worse than Mitt ever thought, has approved horse slaughter for human consuption in the USA. Perhaps he, Obama, should tour a slaughter house and see what actually goes on there. Oh, and take his girls to help with their education of the finer points of daddy's handling of such things.

[dbishop76]

01:19 PM on 12/02/2011

I imagine these recipes would take very long time to prepare, what with every one of them requiring you to grow your own veggies and raise your own cows.

[thinkforasecond]

04:59 PM on 12/03/2011

Actually, Paul believes in market systems, not top down self dependence.

[JohnFromCensornati]

10:33 AM on 12/02/2011

I hope these recipes call for farm subsidy free ingredients.

[The Notorious PDF]

06:53 AM on 12/03/2011

Lol! I know, right.

[Subsound]

09:57 AM on 12/02/2011

The only problem is that you can't use socialist roads, power/gas laid in socialist right of ways, and food at the grocery stores keep free of chemicals/pathogens from the socialist FDA to cook the food. It kind of limits what you can eat.

[raker]

09:36 AM on 12/02/2011

This made me laugh. Cooking and eating would be very hazardous undertakings in the America of Ron Paul's libertarian vision. Every recipe would come with the same advice: cook the holy hell out of this stuff before you eat it. Even today with regulation (such as it is), raw meat, eggs and poultry are biohazards, the most dangerous supplies in the modern kitchen, the things you would never let a child touch. But then, with a libertarian food supply it would be silly to worry so much about bacteria when the chemicals and contaminants will probably do you in.

[thinkforasecond]

05:00 PM on 12/03/2011

I KNOW! How did we ever survive before the FDA? RIDIC

[raker]

05:35 PM on 12/03/2011

Many people didn't survive. There's a book about the meat industry a hundred years ago: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. And that was before feedlots and factory farming (i.e., the consequences of unbridled liberty for job-creating/life-destroying agri-business) brought previously unknown deadly toxins to the food supply.

Freedom from liver function. That's Ron Paul liberty in action.

[Maria Pellio]

01:19 AM on 12/02/2011

I am buying everyone in my family this cookbook, it is of course from our future First Lady. Their pricing even reflects the mood of our country, it's only eight FRN's. You gotta love the practicality of the Paul family, I do.

[Alex Boot]

06:21 AM on 12/02/2011

oh, it's very interesting

[raker]

10:13 AM on 12/02/2011

Christmastime in Ron Paul's America would be the most dreaded season of all. For one thing, charging purchases would cost a lot more. (Usury laws are socialism!) Scratch presents. And since there are no safety standards for things like strings of electric lights, be sure to have an escape plan for when your christmas tree bursts into flames. Sorry, but your homeowner's carrier, free from the tyranny of government regulation, canceled your policy without telling you. Don't worry, you'll find a cozy spot under a bridge somewhere—but better bring a helmet; bridges are crumbling at a steady clip. And on christmas eve, people would drink eggnog, swimming with ecoli, only in a desperate suicide attempt. There'd be no money for municipal snow plows, which makes sense because there'd by no municipal services of any kind, so get ready have the whole family hunker down together without food or electricity, eying each other ominously as each member grows mad with hunger, until the roads are passable again come Spring—and isn't that what the season is all about?

[Maria Pellio]

03:29 AM on 12/03/2011

LOL, you forgot to add sarc off. Why are so afraid with liberty? It's a good thing. I can tell from how you framed your reply where you get your 'news' from. Research Ron Paul yourself and don't rely on others to do research.

[Ashokray Tempestas]

08:53 AM on 01/27/2012

Haters going to hate---and paid haters are going to hate even more!

[Karl Wilder]

02:23 PM on 12/01/2011

I am tempted to buy this only because I want him to have the funds to end the media blackout. NO ONE will cover Paul's positions on any subject. If he comes in second in a poll CNN will mention who came in first and third. Piers Morgan interviewed him and ALL of the questions were about Cain, not Paul. (Granted PM is terrible at his job). I may not support Paul but the media blackout is very disturbing.

[Guardian Weasel]

01:58 PM on 12/01/2011

I think I can guess what's on the last page...

"FED. THE END."