Rylak claws and lembas wafers

May 10, 2017 1:58 PM

Cookbooks based on fictional worlds are nothing new (witness this Dragonlance classic), but there are now many sites that offer recipes from the Hobbit to the Hunger Games to My Little Pony to various video games, with Wired putting together a list of 14 greatest hits. One of the most ambitious fantasy chefs is Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, who has put together an exhaustive Worlds of Warcraft cookbook based on in-game recipes. She also has a site with lots of Game of Throne recipes (among others), and is publishing a Hearthstone (!) cookbook soon.
posted by blahblahblah (33 comments total)

I was disappointed at not finding Red Wedding Velvet Cake.
posted by we halve sub sides to shole you at 2:19 PM on May 10, 2017 [6 favorites]

Step 1: Turn your bread into a trencher.
posted by betweenthebars at 2:40 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Haw Flakes are kinda weird tbh.

But no entry for Kingdom of Loathing? There's a game/fantasy world where cooking is an integral part of your character!
posted by GuyZero at 2:51 PM on May 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

Let's all acknowledge that the cake was a lie, okay?
posted by meese at 2:53 PM on May 10, 2017

I want, and have always wanted, to attend a Redwall feast.
posted by saturday_morning at 2:57 PM on May 10, 2017 [10 favorites]

The hearthstone recipes should be pretty bitter and salty, to match the player base.
posted by empath at 3:00 PM on May 10, 2017 [4 favorites]

The GLaDOS Cake ingredient list.

It's basically a Black Forest cake with some extra ingredients such as Fish-shaped solid waste and a 20-foot thick impermeable clay layer.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 3:03 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

I met Chelsea at Blizzcon last year & she's awesome. I had no idea (until we chatted) that she was the author of "A Feast of Ice & Fire." We'd previously gotten the cookbook as a half-joke & it's 100% amazing. We've probably only tackled 10 or so of the recipes so far, but they've all been fantastic. The conceit of the book was to create "authentic" and "modern" variants of the dishes described in the books themselves (rather than dishes inspired by events in the books a la a Red Wedding Velvet Cake). The lemon cakes (O Sansa!) have been such a hit that they're our go-to for any pot luck or gathering where we're asked to bring dessert.

tldr; When your fantasy recipes are good enough to steal the show at a non-fantasy gathering, you're probably doing it right. :)
posted by narwhal at 3:43 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Cookbooks

Hunger Games

...uh
posted by leotrotsky at 3:51 PM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]

I was disappointed at not finding Red Wedding Velvet Cake.

The Red Wedding cookbook is mostly Fish and (a la MFK Fisher) Wolf recipes.
posted by leotrotsky at 3:53 PM on May 10, 2017

For all of us Redwall fans, here's an online Redwall cookbook. Brian Jaques also wrote an official one.

I'll make Turnip and Tater Deeper ’n Ever Pie if you'll bring the Pear 'n Cranberry Cobbler.
posted by irisclara at 3:55 PM on May 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

I had that Dragonlance book, and I loved it. Pretty sure I tried making a few things from it too. Dragonlance was easily the best D&D world.
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:59 PM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]

There was more than just recipes in Leaves From the Inn of the Last Home, though - it was a random assortment of Krynn crap.
posted by Chrysostom at 4:02 PM on May 10, 2017

Stephen Brust, the world's greatest living Hungarian-American Trotskyite fantasy writer, has the humans in his fiction hail from a thinly disguised Hungarian land ("Fenario"). He frequently mentions Hungarian foods in passing; one of his Vlad Taltos novels is structured around a multi course meal at a Fenarian restaurant. For me it's a mouth-watering tour of my childhood comfort foods, from palicsinta to chicken paprikash.
posted by mark k at 4:07 PM on May 10, 2017 [4 favorites]

They have a recipe for poffins but they're sweet poffins and I only like spicy poffins.
posted by darksasami at 4:21 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

If you want to add some food from realistic fiction to your list, you may like The Little Library Cafe. Same premise, broader bookshelf.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:03 PM on May 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

Some of those Game of Thrones recipes look really good, and it is interesting how her versions differ from how I had thought of the same dishes in the books.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:14 PM on May 10, 2017

The Rustic Bread from Inn at the Crossroads is now one of my staples. I make some once or twice a month. Will have to try the lemon cakes now! They always looked good, but I never got around to trying them.
posted by gemmy at 6:31 PM on May 10, 2017

I'm waiting for the Shadowrun cookbook.

Breakfast: 2 clove cigarettes. 1 Cereprax.
posted by wormwood23 at 6:33 PM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]

page search: Dune

0 results

Google search: Dune cookbook

results: hot mess of Dune fan threads, NO COOKBOOK

I have found the chink in the House Herbert licensing armor!

I recently reread the first and second books (first book, still ok, not as good as when I was twelve. second book, not actually that interesting to me now and therefore hard to evaluate) and the whole time I was reading them I had a full-on mania for North African food. Which you should go eat now, if you can.
posted by mwhybark at 7:40 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Jack Vance described some interesting feasts, maybe they'll come back in style some day.
posted by ovvl at 8:14 PM on May 10, 2017

My girlfriend & some of our buddies decided to do a Skyrim-themed dinner a few years back. This, of course, led to excitement about getting most if not all the foods represented. It turned out to be way, way too much food for six people.

And yes, we did have a whole head of cabbage just sitting there on the table on general principle.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 9:34 PM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]

mwhybark, the Dune Activity Book did have at least one recipe in it, but it was so dreadful that I have remembered it with horror since the 1980s. (The activity book was dreadful. The recipe looks merely boring.)
posted by clew at 9:48 PM on May 10, 2017

Relatedly, Eurogamer have an entertaining series of YouTube videos called Chiodini's Kitchen of recipes either from, or extrapolated from, video games being made.
posted by jzed at 10:00 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

The Rustic Bread from Inn at the Crossroads is now one of my staples.

Link please? I searched the site and can't find it.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:47 AM on May 11, 2017

Where is the Metafilter (and subsites, especially long MetaTalk threads) cookbook?

Pancake recipes, people!
posted by infini at 8:05 AM on May 11, 2017

I can only assume that the Hearthstone cookbook will include entries for funnel cakes and disguised toast.
posted by LSK at 9:11 AM on May 11, 2017

My girlfriend & some of our buddies decided to do a Skyrim-themed dinner a few years back.
Aw, did someone steal your sweetroll?
posted by smirkette at 9:36 AM on May 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

No scone of stone? What am I supposed to do with all this cat litter?
posted by DingoMutt at 2:17 PM on May 11, 2017

There was even a Dark Shadows cookbook, and those people never ate.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:39 PM on May 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

Where is the Metafilter (and subsites, especially long MetaTalk threads) cookbook?

Nobody can eat that many plates of beans.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:40 PM on May 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

All this and somehow no mention of Feeding Hannibal (yes, that Hannibal)

The food stylist for Bryan Fuller's TV series has a blog about her work on the show, but she's been blogging more about American Gods recently. Which is fair enough as Hannibal was axed at the end of season three, and even food stylists have to eat..
posted by auntie-matter at 3:05 PM on May 11, 2017

The Rustic Bread from Inn at the Crossroads is now one of my staples.
Link please? I searched the site and can't find it.

Oh, sorry. This is the rustic bread recipe I make. It's actually called "Crusty Bread" on the site, so that's why a search didn't find it.
I mefimailed you as well.
posted by gemmy at 11:31 AM on May 13, 2017