“Being a (gay) bear means to accept and enjoy your own body, your hair and not caring about the rules imposed on you by the mainstream,” photographer Angelo Sindaco tells The Huffington Post. “It’s a big ‘fuck you’ to the plastic idea of how you should look or act. More or less, it is an iconoclastic thing — especially in these days.”
Sindaco just published his first cookbook, Cooking with the Bears — Healthy Recipes by Hairy Men, which claims to be “the first cookbook dedicated to the Bears’ world.”
“The idea came to my mind about two years ago,” Sindaco explains. “I wanted to explore a world that is mostly still unknown, especially in the straight audience, by using a universal key: food.”
The cookbook features a delicious spread of sexy bears whipping up fine Italian dishes. All of the recipes are inspired or informed by a different region in Italy.
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“There are more than 30 incredible italian recipes in this book,” Sindaco says. “But — surprise! — they’re all easy and fun to cook, especially if you are in good company. Plus, there’s a bit of our culture [in the project]. Italy is strictly bound with food; each city has a its own dishes. We tried to represent the wider spectrum as possible of our beautiful but complex country trough our charming bear chefs.”
Sindaco insists the book is first and foremost about breaking down stereotypes, and not sexualizing bears and food.
“I didn’t want to give an erotic taste to the project,” he continues. “If there’s any, you must blame the models.”
Though some beg to differ.
Check out these images from Cooking with the Bears — Healthy Recipes by Hairy Men and let us know what you think in the comments section…
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EverybodySayLove
You may grace my kitchen anytime, men!
QJ201
Watching obese people eat is really hot
TheBigOne
It’s about as hot as having some judgmental queen talk about other people’s body styles. I bet you’re not Ms. Universe yourself, hon.
@QJ201:
doug105
I came to see the ugly …. in the comments.
Ronbo
Sorry, Without a hairnet, I wouldn’t eat a thing.
Sorry II, Do they make full-body hairnets?
Sorry III, If I wanted hair in my pie, I’d be in the bedroom.
Sorry IV, If you want to break stereotypes, show ’em sans tattoo.
Sorry V, Shirts, it’s what you wear to dinner.
Sorry VI, Flip flops, combat boots or crocks, Oh my!
Sorry VII, Hair is the natural appetite suppressant
Sorry VIII, What looks different about Grandma’s kitchen?
Sorry IX, I’ve got your erotic taste right here.
Sorry X, beanie weenies are Italian?
YesIDid
Eewww….
Captain Obvious
I’m not little myself, but 2 of these guys are morbidly obese… Seems like nowadays everyone wants to pretend to be PC but these types of shoots are more for people who are in shape.
Bears come in muscle form too you know or at the very least husky and hot. I’d sooner call some of these guys hippos than bears.
Gruffling
@TheBigOne: Forget all the fat hating bollocks. I salute your epic sass, sir.
sportyguy1983
Gross
Clark35
I wanted to explore a world that is mostly still unknown, especially in the straight audience, -This is not true at all. Plus, it’s true that at least in North America most “Bears” are not masculine at all. I’m wondering what the recipes in the book are besides Lasagna?
my two cents
Everything about this book is a lie.
Not sexualized???? They’re half naked.
Healthy cooking????
Some of the models are bears, several are obese.
(There is a difference.)
onthemark
@Clark35: “I’m wondering what the recipes in the book are besides Lasagna?”
They do creative things with honey, salmon, and assorted garbage from the national parks!
biguy
Hey why don’t we fetishize the very activity that turns guys like these into fetishes in the first place?
Cagnazzo82
For some reason I’m imagining the second to last guy farting.
This is, as you might imagine, an awful thought.
jwtraveler
A healthy diet and regular exercise are good habits.
Personal attacks and insults about people’s bodies are not.