Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating-picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole-can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you've worked a 16-hour day, when you can't stop crying and you don't know why, when you accidentally woke up an Eldritch abomination at the bottom of the ocean. But most of all, this cookbook exists to help Sad Bastards like us feel a little less alone at mealtimes.

The Sad Bastard Cookbook is funny, realistic, and kind. It's vegetarian/vegan. It's a community-built project. And the e-book PDF is free on the Night Beats website. It's hard to survive late capitalism and we want to help.

Praise for The Sad Bastard Cookbook:
Anna Borisovskaya, MD, an experienced psychiatrist, says, "The authors also display an impressive sense of humor and empathy-it's a book that understands the struggle of having to eat-and make-several meals a day. But one doesn't have to be depressed to appreciate the craft on display here."

"The Sad Bastard Cookbook" has also gained support from the culinary world. "This book is a survival guide written by survivors, and it is a heartfelt resource that many people will draw on for years to come," says Rohan O'Duill, professional chef and author.