What People are Saying:
“Delectable as the body of an Italian woman. This is the book I have been waiting for since my untimely death.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Colonel Sanders, eat your heart out.”
Chef Boyardee
“Better than Julia Child and you don’t have to listen to the screechy voice.”
Joyce Chen
“High in fiber.”
Ralph Nader
“A revelation. An evil revelation, but a revelation.”
Billy Graham
"Comedic, sardonically acute insight...opens with a quote you won't find on any billboard." Melissa Harrison
“A work of pure sub-genius.”
Bob
“Burger King is a Dairy Queen, but Cooking with Jesus is culinary dynamite. I wish I read this book before I got into the franchise business. I would have got married.”
Wendy
“I’m Jewish, too.”
Kathy Lee Gifford
“Absolutely a comic marvel, the funniest book ever written, even if I don’t agree with the pot shots taken at McDonald’s.”
Bill Clinton
“I loved the Pepper Spray Catfish recipe. It gave me an idea.”
Marilyn Manson
“Aunt Jemimah loved it.”
Uncle Ben
“Funny as shit.”
God
“Finally my son writes an okay book.”
Carl Sagan
“If it be true that our body is a temple then what better way to worship than Cooking with Jesus. I found it nourishing for both the body and the soul.”
Reverend Michael David Barnes,
Jonesboro, Arkansas
“Witty and irreverent....a fascinating vehicle for his fusion of science, religion and cuisine....something special.”
Gail Winston,
Senior Editor,
HarperCollins Publishers
“[D]elightful....compelling....vividly original..”
Roberta Tennant,
Editor-in-Chief,
Falcon Books
“Hilarious. I laughed my head off.”
Lynn Margulis,
Member, National Academy of Sciences
“Funny, witty, life-affirming—and, to be honest, I don’t even finish most books.”
Lisa Palumbo,
Music Teacher
“Thank you for sending me the manuscript for COOKING WITH JESUS by Dorion Sagan. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that it is right for the Grove/ Atlantic list.”
Morgan Entrekin,
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“An intriguingly offbeat amalgam of science, religion and culinary arts. I’m afraid our consensus was that the audience for this book wouldn’t be large enough for us to publish it successfully.”
Charlie Conrad,
Bantam Doubleday Dell
“Witty and irreverent...provides a fascinating vehicle for his fusion of science, religion, and cuisine. However, after reading a few chapters, I began to feel that his manuscript lacked a solid skeleton on which to hang his voice.”
Gail Winston,
Senior Editor,
HarperCollins Publishers
“You don’t need to say `this is worth the price of the book’ four times. Plus I found a lot of little typos. It needs work.”
Lynn Margulis,
workaholic
“My name is spelled with two ‘n’s.’”
Dianne Bilyak,
Award-winning poet
“Delectable as the body of an Italian woman. This is the book I have been waiting for since my untimely death.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Colonel Sanders, eat your heart out.”
Chef Boyardee
“Better than Julia Child and you don’t have to listen to the screechy voice.”
Joyce Chen
“High in fiber.”
Ralph Nader
“A revelation. An evil revelation, but a revelation.”
Billy Graham
"Comedic, sardonically acute insight...opens with a quote you won't find on any billboard." Melissa Harrison
“A work of pure sub-genius.”
Bob
“Burger King is a Dairy Queen, but Cooking with Jesus is culinary dynamite. I wish I read this book before I got into the franchise business. I would have got married.”
Wendy
“I’m Jewish, too.”
Kathy Lee Gifford
“Absolutely a comic marvel, the funniest book ever written, even if I don’t agree with the pot shots taken at McDonald’s.”
Bill Clinton
“I loved the Pepper Spray Catfish recipe. It gave me an idea.”
Marilyn Manson
“Aunt Jemimah loved it.”
Uncle Ben
“Funny as shit.”
God
“Finally my son writes an okay book.”
Carl Sagan
“If it be true that our body is a temple then what better way to worship than Cooking with Jesus. I found it nourishing for both the body and the soul.”
Reverend Michael David Barnes,
Jonesboro, Arkansas
“Witty and irreverent....a fascinating vehicle for his fusion of science, religion and cuisine....something special.”
Gail Winston,
Senior Editor,
HarperCollins Publishers
“[D]elightful....compelling....vividly original..”
Roberta Tennant,
Editor-in-Chief,
Falcon Books
“Hilarious. I laughed my head off.”
Lynn Margulis,
Member, National Academy of Sciences
“Funny, witty, life-affirming—and, to be honest, I don’t even finish most books.”
Lisa Palumbo,
Music Teacher
“Thank you for sending me the manuscript for COOKING WITH JESUS by Dorion Sagan. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that it is right for the Grove/ Atlantic list.”
Morgan Entrekin,
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“An intriguingly offbeat amalgam of science, religion and culinary arts. I’m afraid our consensus was that the audience for this book wouldn’t be large enough for us to publish it successfully.”
Charlie Conrad,
Bantam Doubleday Dell
“Witty and irreverent...provides a fascinating vehicle for his fusion of science, religion, and cuisine. However, after reading a few chapters, I began to feel that his manuscript lacked a solid skeleton on which to hang his voice.”
Gail Winston,
Senior Editor,
HarperCollins Publishers
“You don’t need to say `this is worth the price of the book’ four times. Plus I found a lot of little typos. It needs work.”
Lynn Margulis,
workaholic
“My name is spelled with two ‘n’s.’”
Dianne Bilyak,
Award-winning poet
