I’m Vanessa Lavorato, edible maker, chocolatier, and host of The Edibles Club. My cookbook How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time will teach you how to cook with cannabis at home!

You probably know me from Bong Appétit, but I’ve been making edibles since 2010 and I’ve learned a few tricks along the way. So if you want to learn how to make infused tortillas, or ganja guacamole or Stoney Sloppy Joes then join me every Wednesday for my YouTube Livestreams!

Want a direct line to me and my community of cannabis connoisseurs? Come hang out with us on Patreon via The Edibles Club. We share advice, stories, music, and of course, tips on edibles.

A woman with a messy bun hairstyle is sitting on kitchen counter, eating a slice of chocolate cake with white frosting, dressed in peach and polka dot clothing and purple checkered high heels, surrounded by plants and candles.

So you want to eat weed

and have a good time?

How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time

How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time - Signed Copy

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Author and host of VICE’s Bong Appetit, Vanessa Lavorato is teaching you how to create sweet and savory cannabis dishes right in your home kitchen. After crafting 200 certified lab tests in her research—to help ensure that the infusions for staples like cannabis butter, oil, sugar, and more are as accurate as possible—Vanessa walks you through every step of the process with informative tables and charts, making this book incredibly useful and wildly popular.

With dazzling photography throughout, the book includes delicious recipes like taquitos, wontons, meatballs, granola, muffins, cookies, blondies, brownies, cupcakes, and more. There are also recipes for dips, dressings, and sauces from salsa to pesto to marinara—many of which can be prepared in advance and stored in the fridge or freezer for when you want to take a dish to new heights. And for when you want to drink your weed, there are recipes for milkshakes, chai, iced tea, and even a Bloody Mary.

This book is packed with tips and advice throughout on topics like how weed gets people high, using everything from your stove to your microwave for decarboxylation (heat activates cannabis), cooking with concentrates, and shopping for weed. This is the most authoritative book ever published on the subject of cannabis consumption.

“Books like this are necessary! Especially coming from someone like Vanessa, who has been passionate about educating people on how to cook with cannabis for many years. She is one of the most knowledgeable people I know in the field. It’s a must-read!”

B-Real, Cypress Hill
“If there is anyone that I'm gonna trust to take me on a fun, weed-filled journey, it's Vanessa."

Farideh Sadeghin, cookbook author
"Vanessa’s cookbook embodies her personality—fun and whimsical, but also serious about good food (and, of course, weed!). Her recipes are stellar, and you can learn so much about cooking with weed.”

Esther Choi, chef
“This book isn’t just about cooking with cannabis, it’s about elevating your entire experience. Vanessa breaks down the science and the art of it all, making it feel like you’re cooking alongside a friend who just happens to be a total expert.”

Tess Sinatro, @Lamb_Chop97
“How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time is the ultimate master class on getting baked with food. Vanessa explains everything from the science of getting high to how and where you can physically buy weed to, obviously, how to cook with it like a true expert."

Henry Laporte, @SaltHank

In LA Times

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She’s L.A.’s Martha Stewart of weed. Her new cookbook makes edibles more fun and less scary.

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In Vogue

Meet the Chic Cannabis Chocolatier Who Will Change the Way You Think About Edibles

In GQ

A woman with blonde hair tied in a side ponytail, wearing a red top, is biting into a chocolate biscuit bar while holding a box filled with more chocolate biscuits.

So you want to eat weed

and have a good time?

How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time

How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time

“Books like this are necessary! Especially coming from someone like Vanessa, who has been passionate about educating people on how to cook with cannabis for many years. She is one of the most knowledgeable people I know in the field. It’s a must-read!”

“If there is anyone that I'm gonna trust to take me on a fun, weed-filled journey, it's Vanessa."

"Vanessa’s cookbook embodies her personality—fun and whimsical, but also serious about good food (and, of course, weed!). Her recipes are stellar, and you can learn so much about cooking with weed.”

“This book isn’t just about cooking with cannabis, it’s about elevating your entire experience. Vanessa breaks down the science and the art of it all, making it feel like you’re cooking alongside a friend who just happens to be a total expert.”

“How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time is the ultimate master class on getting baked with food. Vanessa explains everything from the science of getting high to how and where you can physically buy weed to, obviously, how to cook with it like a true expert."

In LA Times

She’s L.A.’s Martha Stewart of weed. Her new cookbook makes edibles more fun and less scary.

In Vogue

Meet the Chic Cannabis Chocolatier Who Will Change the Way You Think About Edibles

In GQ

Stoner Food Has Gotten Fully Baked

How to Eat Weed and Have a Good Time