Leave it to Jed Birmingham to make the connection between Mad Men and William S. Burroughs, via Minutes to Go, cut-ups, and Wilhelm Reich, with a bit of feminist name-dropping shoehorned in. The connection is complex and full of complications, a specialty of Birmingham’s literary sleuthing.
-thumb-120x163-20356.jpg "'The Hashish Cookbook' by Panama Rose")
And here’s Eddie Woods offering some corrective history about the identity of Panama Rose, author of The Hashish Cookbook. Ira Cohen, it was not; he merely took the credit. To which a friend replies, “Given the clues — the influence of Brion Gysin, the name that recalls Pantopon Rose, the publication in Gnaoua — it seems obvious that the real and true author was that notorious hash head William Burroughs. I mean, there was a man with the dignity to publish a cookbook the right way, i.e. pseudonymously. Can you imagine being so low as to go around stealing credit for other folks’ recipes? Fer cryin’ out loud…”
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