Late Pantera / Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott’s legend continues on! Kick your summer barbecues up a notch with his cook book, “Drumming Up An Appetite With Vinnie Paul”. Pick it up here. The book commemorates the memory of Vinnie’s legendary Sunday Funday dinners. Family recipes. Gotta love that. Comedian and friend Carrot Top does the book’s foreward – and the book is broken into three chapters: main courses (Reinventing The Meal), side dishes (Far Beyond Kitchen), and desserts (A Vulgar Display Of Flour)!
The book, as well as the cover art by Erik Rodriguez, was a lifelong dream of Vinnie Paul’s. Back in 2016 he said, “My cookbook will be called ‘Drumming Up An Appetite With Vinnie Paul’. How clever is that? It’s got a picture of me sitting behind the drum set. I’m holding two big, old turkey legs; those are otherwise known as drumsticks. And it’s got a lot of really cool recipes that I came up with on my own; a lot of them my mom taught me when I was growing up; and just a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, and it’s just a lot of fun. It’s not real serious.”
Vinnie added: “A lot of people think cooking is throwing something in the microwave. It’s really not. There’s a passion to it. It’s like playing music. If you love doing it, you really put everything you’ve got into it and want it to be special, and that’s what we do.”
Vinnie started writing this book over 15 years ago – inside you’ll get his favourite recipes, written by Vinnie before his passing.
Through the support of his family and estate, Vinnie Paul’s cook book is seeing the light of day!
Josh Bernstein, president of Z2 and longtime friend/collaborator of Vinnie Paul, said: “Vinnie Paul’s passion for life, music and tasty food was immeasurable. Being able to publish this cookbook for Vinnie, Bridog and his family fulfills a promise I made to him during his lifetime and we hope his recipes, stories and passion fills no hearts and stomachs for years to come.”
“Drumming Up An Appetite With Vinnie Paul” is available now in hardcover (link above).
Vinnie Paul died in June 2018 at his home in Las Vegas of dilated cardiomyopathy — an enlarged heart — as well as severe coronary artery disease, a heart condition. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said Vinnie died of natural causes. RIP you legend.
What’s your favourite meal? I wonder if Vinnie’s cook book will have a new favourite? There’s a very good chance.
