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For fans of The Good Place, now available on Netflix, a pun-filled and fully illustrated cookbook of 30 original recipes inspired by the philosophy and food humor of the hit show.
With its high concept, exceptional writing, eye-popping set design, stellar cast, meaningful explorations of what it means to be a good person, and clam chowder fountains, The Good Place has captured the hearts and minds of critics and viewers alike.
For the first time ever, fans can indulge their cravings for The Good Place with delicious, comforting, original recipes like Macaroni and Socra-cheese, I Think Therefore I Clam (Chowder), I Kant Believe Its Not Buttermilk Pancakes, and more. Each recipe title references a philosopher or philosophical concept from the show and uses food analogies to explain those concepts to readers who, like Eleanor, cant always follow Chidis lectures.
A refreshing and entertaining twist on cookbooks, Forking Good will help you plan your next viewing party as you re-binge your favorite show.

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Copyright 2019 by Valya Dudycz Lupescu and Stephen H Segal All - photo 3
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Copyright 2019 by Valya Dudycz Lupescu and Stephen H. Segal

All rights reserved. Except as authorized under U.S. copyright law, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Number: 2019930331

ISBN9781683691556

Ebook ISBN9781683691563

Book design by Elissa Flanigan adapted for ebook

Illustrations by Dingding Hu

Production management by John J. McGurk

Quirk Books

215 Church Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

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This cookbook is dedicated to our beloved ancestors who have inspired our - photo 6

This cookbook is dedicated to our beloved ancestors, who have inspired our hearts and minds and pots and pens with good food and thoughtful conversation

We hope they are in the Good Place

Contents When Im really upset concentrating on a table of contents helps me - photo 7
Contents

When Im really upset, concentrating on a table of contents helps me calm down. Its like a menu, but the food is words.

Chidi, Season 2, Episode 5, The Trolley Problem

Introduction

W hy is there so much food, and talk of food, in The Good Placea supernatural TV sitcom thats all about learning to use ethical philosophy to make good life choices? From the first moments of the first episode, food forms the backdrop to almost everything that happens on the show.

We meet Eleanor Shellstrop as she wakes in the afterlife and immediately learns that she died while buying groceries. Then Michael, her angelically dressed soul shepherd, takes her on an orientation tour of the Good Place, and literally the first thing we see as they stroll onto the neighborhoods streets is a cupcake cart.

Food puns fill the Good Places ever-changing neighborhood signage. And once Eleanor meets her new friends Chidi, Tahani, and Jason, they quickly fall into a casual routine of noshing at parties and restaurants, chatting in sidewalk cafs, and not-so-silently judging one another for their food choices, from Jasons adolescent snack cravings and Tahanis Instagram-perfect hors doeuvres to Chidis unnecessary muffin dilemmas and Eleanors knee-jerk shrimp-and-booze gluttony.

After a while, it becomes clear that food in The Good Place is a kind of emotional litmus test for whats happening all around.

In the beginning, food underscores the uncanny, nearly-perfect-but-still-somehow-unsatisfying quality of life in the neighborhood that Michael has designed. (Frozen yogurt in every flavor you never imagined!) Three seasons of mind-blowing plot twists and reinventions later, food continues to reflect the nature of the characters surroundings. (A horrifying pot of chili representing Nietzsches idea that life is meaningless!)

Food, it turns out, is fundamentally a philosophical subject.

Philosophy encourages us to take a step back and reflect upon our choices. This approach can be applied to food as well, because the way a person cooksand eatsreveals something about the way they have chosen to live their life.

How many meals do we eat that are fine but unremarkable, that fill the void but leave something to be desired? Do we eat without thinking about where the food comes from or how it was made? Do we invite our neighbors for a barbecue or host a potluck for friends? Do we ask elders for their favorite recipes, maybe adapt them for our needs but celebrate the legacy? Do we take time to enjoy the process of putting new things together? Do we take creative culinary risks in order to learn, to growto become better?

We wanted to write a cookbook inspired by The Good Place because we were inspired by The Good Place. In a show that explores the meaning of life, food is a way to highlight values.

The Good Places creator, Michael Schur, brilliantly creates a vivid world and lovable, flawed characters. This cookbook is our love letter to the showto food, to puns, and to philosophy. You can make these recipes for yourself or your family to accompany your next binge-watching session, or you can scale up for a viewing party with friends. These dishes were created with sharing in mind.

The Good Place loves its characters, and so we grew to care about them too. Through all of their mad adventures, we cheer them on to become better people. Along the way, their story inspires us to think about how we, too, can become better people.

Our hope with this cookbook is that after being inspired by The Good Place, maybe people will take a little time out to think about the role of food in their lives. After all, recipes are a lot like philosophical theories. Both are guidelines for how to do something thats central to living.

Perhaps a little thoughtful reflection and some new dishes can do for us what philosophy and friendship did for Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, Jason, Michael, and Janet.

Maybe thinking about the way we eat can actually change our lives.

We invite you to join us now as we try to cook our way into the Good Place.

Valyas Pantry Not a Void The all-knowing afterlife-support assistant named - photo 8
Valyas Pantry: Not a Void

The all-knowing afterlife-support assistant named Janet is able to conjure anything that the residents of the Good Place want, whether that means a plate of jalapeo poppers, a couples therapy session, or a never-ending shrimp dispensary.

Where does it all come from?

Janet, and by extension her infinite void, manifests everything she and the others need. Its not really a void, after all. As she puts it, its a subdimension outside of space and time at the nexus of consciousness and matter tethered to my essence. Janets void is not unlike Doctor Whos TARDIS or Mary Poppinss carpet bag: its where she keeps the magic.

Janets omnipotence in conjuring would be an amazing power to have for cooking. We can at least have the next best thing: a well-stocked pantry. Once we take the time to fill up the cupboards with the right staples for our individual needs, our ability to whip out just what we need can seem like magic, too.

My barometer for a well-stocked pantry is one that allows me to cook something healthy and delicious for my family even when I havent gone grocery shopping for a few days. With one teen on a gluten-free diet, and another who is a picky eater, its not always easy coming up with ideas. But necessity is the mother of invention, and my years of practicing the spontaneous manifestation of mealtime means that this cookbook is full of options for an array of palates and dietary needs.

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