Dictator Lunches: Inspired Meals That Will Compel Even the Toughest of (Tyrants) Children

by Jenny Mollen

Overview

Pack lunch with this fun and creative cookbook of lunchbox ideas and healthy recipes to please even your pickiest eater—from Jenny Mollen, the Instagram personality behind @dictatorlunches!

“Jenny makes all of us moms wanna be more creative! Her humor and inventiveness are such a winning combination. I love this amazing method of edible food art she has brought to life. It makes us all smile and cheer.” — Drew Barrymore

Lighthearted cooking with a heavy dose of love

Any parent will tell you that raising dictators… errr, children … can be challenging. Thankfully Jenny Mollen of @dictatorlunches takes the power struggle out of mealtime with this inspired collection of 40 recipes, from filling breakfasts to healthy snacks, dinners, and desserts—with a special emphasis on solving the age-old problem of school lunch.

Dictator Lunches will soon become your secret weapon in the kitchen. Mollen shares her foolproof method for packing winning lunches along with easy-to-master techniques that will transform ordinary ingredients into adorable edible art, like Strawberry Actresses, Cucumber Penguins, and Rice Pandas. With her trademark playfulness and whimsy, Mollen turns meals into feasts fit for any autocrat, no matter how demanding, featuring:

• Insta-ready Avocado Toast
• Better Than Alphabet Cookies
• Logs. They Aren’t Just for Ants Anymore
• Fruit-juiced Gummy Worms in Granola soil
• Healthy Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cups on a Stick

Complete with international dishes for your jet-setting tyrant like Amateur Hour Japchae, Curry Chicken, and Coconut Rice and Beans, and holiday-themed boxes with Reindeer Celery Sticks, Baruch Atah Adon-Applesauce, and Spinach Frankenstein Quesadillas, Dictator Lunches has you covered for every meal, every holiday, and any dictator’s whim. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063242647
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	111,932
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

JENNY MOLLEN is a writer, actor, Instagram personality and New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections I Like You Just the Way I Am and Live Fast Die Hot. Her digital series, “I Like You Just the Way I Am,” which she wrote and in which she stars, currently streams on ABC Digital. Heralded by The Huffington Post as one of the funniest women on both Twitter and Instagram and named one of “Five to Follow” by T Magazine, Jenny wrote a standing column for Parents magazine and has contributed to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York, Elle.com, Grub Hub, and Wake Up Call with Katie Couric.

Her debut novel City of Likes is set to publish June 2022 and Dictator Lunches, a cookbook inspired by her Instagram account @dictatorlunches is set to publish September 2022.

Editorial Reviews

Jenny makes all of us moms wanna be more creative! Her humor and inventiveness are such a winning combination. I love this amazing method of edible food art she has brought to life. It makes us all smile and cheer.” — Drew Barrymore

“Jenny’s innovative and tasty recipes are a gift to parents and little ones, wrapped up lovingly in sardonic humor. Her approach to nourishing her kids is relatable and clever, and I can’t wait to try her tricks to broaden my own little dicta - tors’ culinary horizons! Wish me luck!” — Kristen Bell

“With her signature cool-mom vibes and boundless wit, Jenny spares us the daily struggles and tackles our most tyrannically tough customer’s taste buds with meals that are inventive, easy, and will actually be eaten! As a mom of four, I love Dictator Lunches for the way it approaches nutritious, delicious food with plenty of creativity and laughs—so that even if we lose a few I-hate-broccoli battles, we may ultimately win the (happily adventurous, healthy eater) war!”  — Daphne Oz

From the Publisher

Jenny Mollen is hovering only slightly above sanity, which is the one quality I require in order to be friends with a mother. This hysterical circus of a book reminds me why we’re friends.” 

Chelsea Handler

Mollen is the voice behind @jennyandteets, which is chock-full of potty humor, sexual innuendo, and bad behavior. If you like this kind of thing—which I do—you’ll inhale her memoir like an illegal substance (which the author has also likely inhaled at one time or another). Sharp, saucy, and mildly disturbing, she reminds me of a young, psychotic Nora Ephron.” 

New York Magazine’s Vulture

With her incomparable wit and acidic wisdom, Jenny now turns her signature perspective to the most terrifying of feminine terrain: motherhood. And with a generous helping of demented antics and just enough vulnerability to make you cry, she’ll have every complicated woman thinking they just might be up for the job. Lord help us all.

Lena Dunham

I kind of can’t believe Jenny Mollen is an actual person and not a character—she’s biting, hilarious, surprising, over sharing, and relatable.” 

Andy Cohen

Raunchy, witty, whip-smart fun. Jenny Mollen is the girl your mother warned you about.” 

Jennifer Weiner

Jenny puts into words those thoughts you're ashamed to admit to your therapist, your dog, or even yourself. This outrageous book will have you laughing out loud and thanking god you aren't her husband.” ―CHELSEA HANDLER, New York Times bestselling author of Uganda Be Kidding Me “Honest, hilarious, and a book I would highly recommend hiding from your daughter.” ―JIM GAFFIGAN, New York Times bestselling author of Dad Is Fat “Jenny Mollen is a brilliant writer with balls of steel—this is the most honest, hilarious, and batsh*t insane memoir I've read in ages.” ―DIABLO CODY, New York Times bestselling author of Candy Girl “In a town full of phonies, Jenny Mollen is the genuine article. With true candor and a biting sense of humor, she bravely lays her secrets bare in a memoir that's compulsively readable, undeniably smart, and breathtakingly funny. Take note, everyone, because Jenny Mollen is about to become the Next Big Thing!” ―JEN LANCASTER, New York Times bestselling author of The Tao of Martha and Bitter Is the New Black “Jenny Mollen is basically telling women that it's okay to be crazy and to embrace their jealousy, paranoia and rage. This book is so funny—you'll laugh your ass off. I only hope my girlfriend doesn't read it.” ―JEFFREY ROSS, author of I Only Roast the Ones I Love “You know when a friend tells you what they almost did, but came to their senses and didn't? Well, Jenny Mollen does it with gusto, and I can't get enough! You'll never believe how badly you'll want to meet her after reading her hilarious book.” ―JUDY GREER, author of I Don't Know What You Know Me From “Yikes and wow. You will be horrified. You will be entertained. What you'll never be, as you read Jenny Mollen's memoir, is bored.” ―PATTON OSWALT, New York Times bestselling author of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland “Jenny's type of fucked up is the kind I want to squish up and put in my bag and keep with me all the time—and now I can. Thanks, America.” ―KELLY OXFORD, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar “Filth. If you like your ladies hot and your filth filthy, this is the book for you. Jenny is bitchy and body-obsessed, husband-obsessed, self-aggrandizing, and always amazing.” ―MICHAEL IAN BLACK, New York Times bestselling author of You're Not Doing It Right “Jenny tells her stories with such raw honesty that even when she's behaving badly, you'll root for her. Also, you'll laugh your ass off. After reading this, I want to be her best friend but also I'm scared of her.” ―SARAH COLONNA, New York Times bestselling author of Life As I Blow It

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