In an email newsletter I get about the publishing business, I just read that Ten Speed Press has acquired Hostess’s The Twinkies Cookbook, “a compilation of recipes contributed by real people showing the many ways Twinkies can be used in cooking–both sweet and savory,” to be published next spring.

Sweet and savory? It’s bad enough to imagine actually cooking with those nuclear-blast-proof “pastries,” but making something other than dessert is mind-bending at best, repulsive at worst.