Mr. Andoh's Pennine Diary . . . second place in Bookseller Diagram Prize, 'A Thai cookbook titled "Cooking With Poo" won this year's Bookseller Diagram Prize for oddest book title, the trade magazine that awards the prize announced.
The winning book is written by Bangkok chef Saiyuud Diwong, who goes by the nickname Poo, which is Thai for "crab," the BBC reported Friday. "We knew the whole world loved Poo but now its official!," said Anji Barker, a senior social worker at the charity Urban Neighbors of Hope.
The 114-page book beat out second-place winner "Mr. Andoh's Pennine Diary: Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge," by Stephen Curry and Takayoshi Andoh. Third prize went to "The Great Singapore Penis Panic and the Future of American Mass Hysteria,"