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Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes
Angry Birds Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes – detail from cover art
Angry Birds Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes – detail from cover art

Angry Birds colonise cookbook market

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After the runaway success of the game, its makers have – naturally – moved on to launch Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes

Stand aside, Jamie Oliver; Nigel Slater, put down your spatula. A new contender for cookbook of the year is about to make its appearance in bookshops everywhere: a collection of egg recipes from the makers of the computer game Angry Birds.

Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes, out later this month, starts simple, teaching users how to make scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, fried eggs and omelettes. Amid puns galore, it then moves into more daring territory, with recipes for aioli sauce ("Gallic Garlic"), sorbet ("Ice, Ice Baby) and noodle-crusted quiche ("Noodle-di-doo").

The instructions are accompanied with illustrations of hungry-looking pigs, and publisher and Finnish games developer Rovio makes clear that "all recipes in this book are based on the use of regular chicken eggs", rather than Angry Bird eggs. "Go ahead, crack an egg or two and fling your awesome self to new levels of egg-cellence," Rovio urges.

The Angry Birds game, which sees players firing birds at pigs, has now been downloaded 500m times, according to Rovio. Two Angry Bird "doodle" colouring books are also due out this month.

The pigs' venture into cookbook writing follows in the footsteps of Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell's fictional forensic pathologist who "wrote" Food to Die For, Alexander McCall Smith's heroine Mma Ramotswe, who published a cookbook of Botswanan recipes, and Scottish comic book star Maw Broon's collection of favourite Scottish recipes, a surprise Christmas hit in 2007. But Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes, currently in 12,874th position in Amazon's bestseller charts, has some way to go before it troubles the fourth-placed Jamie's Great Britain from Oliver this Christmas.

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