Cookbook Seeks to Help You Get the Most Out of Potty Time

Recipes designed to keep on giving.

Cookbook author Danielle Svetcov wants to get all up in your shit -- literally. Svetcov's book is called The Un-Constipated Gourmet: Secrets to a Moveable Feast (Sourcebooks, $15.99). It promises to address the needs of what the author calls "the constipated or potty-challenged," who, she says, are a "very, very large group." Svetcov will appear at Cover to Cover booksellers (1307 Castro at 24th St.) Saturday at 5 p.m.

Her cookbook offers 125 recipes designed to keep you regular, dishes like pasta puttanesca, pizza with shrimp, and Gorgonzola-stuffed dried fig salad -- a list that leads us to infer that Italians are uniquely gifted with peristalsis. The author's fondness for superfoods seems to fit her mission of providing good -- even gourmet -- eats that pack plenty of nutritive value and, oh yeah, less unproductive time on the can.

Svetcov is a San Francisco writer and lit agent. She's made memorable (read: funny) appearances as a judge for the Literary Death Match series. The Un-Constipated Gourmet may be embarrassing to some, and a favorite for others. Hey, whatever works. What you do (or don't do) on the toilet is strictly your business.