Father Yod's Kitchen

Father Yod’s Kitchen: Food for People to Eat
by Byron Coley
design by Naomi Yang

"Byron may very well be the only record collector in the world who can make a soup as tasty as a Sun Ra Saturn acetate.”
— Thurston Moore

"I’ve enjoyed much of Byron’s cooking over the years. His chili is spectacular and bbq even better!”
— Georgia Hubley

"Well fed people make a better audience.”
— J Mascis

“All of underground music is about building community, around a spot or an idea or a supper table, and I can’t think of anybody more relentless in dragging people into things so they could contribute to the collective summa of greatness. Hanging out with Byron is both a rite of passage and a practical example of how to have a good time all the time.”
— Steve Albini

Byron Coley, aka Father Yod, has been making meals for over 30 years for family, an extended family of friends, touring musicians, and audiences attending Feeding Tube Records and Ecstatic Yod gigs in and around Florence, MA.

Naomi Yang, musician and long-time fan of Father Yod’s cooking (he once catered a video shoot she was filming for Elisa Ambrogio) thought that Byron’s lovely tradition of making meals for the people around him should be documented and decided to produce this compendium, printed in traditional American community cookbook style (spiral bound, industrially typeset).

Father Yod’s Kitchen includes memories and anecdotes by Byron as well as the musicians and friends who have been fed by over the years at his table. Includes vegetarian, gluten-free and omnivore recipes such as “Bacon Explosion,” “Fiddlehead Soup,” and “Vegetarian Two Bean Chili.”

208 pages
6” x 8.5”
Spiral bound
$ 19.95
ISBN 978-1-735065-01-4
Published by Hungry Yurt