For those of us most likely to read the Onion for our hard news, we can rejoice at the new book by Chris Fair in which Bush-ite foreign policy is served up in a most palatable manner ... Iraqi kibbe with a side of insurgency.

Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States: A Dinner Party Approach to International Relations (The Lyons Press, August 3) is a thorough who's who of nuclear proliferating bad guys and the dishes that compliment them. In passing, Fair, who works for a major defense contractor (is there any other kind these days?), extends a middle finger to the very military-industrial complex that signs her probably rather large paychecks, and in the process plays haphazardly with the adage don't shit where you eat.

The ignominious countries are divided into the Charter Members of the Axis of Evil (Iran, Iraq, and North Korea) and freedom-hating "other irritating states." In a grand gesture that'll have some patriots agitating to get her sent to Gitmo, Fair also sets her sights on our own country, in a chapter entitled "Great Satan's Barbecue." Of course, there's no shortage of material for parody, and high-flying lines—such as Pakistan being referred to as "the condom that the U.S. uses to screw Afghanistan"—sparkle throughout. Strangely, there's probably more sex in this cookbook than cooking, but we're not complaining. We like sex, actually!

At 336 pages, the book is still a hefty read for the attention deficit politico but nonetheless necessary to understanding the history and complexity of nuclear proliferation in the age of preemptive attacks and elusive WMD's. Fair unfortunately takes several liberties with the perceived intelligence of the average American, though to her credit she washes it down with some good old fashioned beer-butt chicken. So fear not: the world is going to hell in a very tasty handbasket.