Gudetama took the world by storm some four years ago by simply being a lazy egg yolk who would rather do nothing. Hatched (lol) from Japanese company Sanrio’s contest in 2013, the golden irregularly shaped food-based character has found fans all over the world who share the same disdain for doing anything.
Yet it seems even this anti-productivity icon cannot escape the home cooking craze born out of the quarantine. In an upcoming cookbook, Gudetama comes back to the limelight with recipes for “living a lazy life,” a truly apt motto for this very uneventful year in isolation.
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Coming out this October, “Gudetama: The Official Cookbook” is an illustrated cookbook that will feature 60 recipes for “barely awake breakfasts, lazy lunches, drowsy dinners, and tired treats,” says publisher Running Press on its website.
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The publishing house teamed up with journalist and recipe developer Jenn Fujikawa to create a collection of “craveable comfort recipes,” from Japanese food to the likes of pizza, egg salads, burgers, and tacos.
The recipes are as cooky and effortless as the food-based character, too. There’s the “Unmotivated Breakfast Sandwich,” “Too Tired Tater Tot,” “Bake Tuckered Out Tamago Sando (Japanese egg salad sandwich),” “Slow-Paced Short Ribs,” “Maybe I’ll Make Meatloaf,” “Stress-Free Strawberry Ice Cream Pie,” and “Easygoing Eggnog.”
“Gudetama: The Official Cookbook” will be out October 12 and will retail for $20 (roughly P1,000). It will be available at major bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Powell’s.