Fancy Fast Food is the brainchild of interactive designer and writer Erik R. Trinidad, based on the unique food blog, www.FancyFastFood.com, showcasing photographs and recipes of items purchased at fast food chain restaurants that undergo an “extreme makeover,” transforming them into ‘haute cuisine.’ Though as the website’s tagline goes, “Yeah, it’s still bad for you — but see how good it can look!”

Fancy Fast Food’s aim is to poke fun at the increasing growth of “foodie” culture in America — something that has been long overdue; The Village Voice has called foodies a “plague” in New York City. The New York Observer labels food zealots as “foodiots.” Fancy Fast Food takes an “anti-foodie foodie” stance and mocks the self-important gourmand and all that they represent.

Regardless of whether you attempt any of the dozens of recipes in the book, Fancy Fast Food provides an entertaining and hilarious commentary on fast food and its inevitable intersection with pop culture.