Fantasy-fiction cookbooks on the rise

[Spooky]

The ladies over at Inn at the Crossroads are highlighted extensively in a front-page Wall Street Journal story today about the growing number of cookbooks based on fantasy fiction. The Unofficial Hunger Games cookbook was published this month; and The Unoffical Harry Potter Cookbook, out last year, has sold more than 150,000 copies. Cookbooks based on the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are reportedly also in the works.

Roommates Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer, the masterminds behind the Inn at the Crossroads blog, have their own cookbook tentatively slated for a September 2012 release.

Unsuprisingly for an article on fantasy-genre food, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is featured prominently throughout the piece (the print edition even has a classic WSJ "dot drawing" of grilled Dornish rattlesnake.)

"At one point I had someone eating a seagull, which I think was a mistake," Mr. Martin says. "I got a number of letters about that saying that seagull is nasty tasting."

Over the years, he's gotten repeated requests to write a cookbook. He demurred. "I'm very good at eating, but I'm not too much of a cook," says Mr. Martin.

Note: WSJ.com is paid subsriber site, but this article doesn't appear to be behind a pay wall at present.


http://towerofthehand.com/blog/2011/12/08-fantasy-fiction-cookbooks-on/index.html

[Eric]

That's pretty shiny.

Speaking of "shiny" ... anyone got any good horse steak cooking tips for a Firefly cookbook?

[AdmiralDigby]

Sisters' Stew

[TinkTanker]

Girl Scout Cookies

[AdmiralDigby]

 

[TinkTanker]

BTW, that was Mercedes "Harmony" McNab in her first credited screen appearance.

[AdmiralDigby]

BTW, that was Mercedes "Harmony" McNab in her first credited screen appearance.

I thought she was vaguely familiar .


( Mercedes is great , I grew to love Harmony )

[AdmiralDigby]

I ran the idea of having a GoT/Medieval banquet by Joy last night .

She seemed amenable .....

[TinkTanker]

http://www.medievaltimes.com/atlanta.aspx

[AdmiralDigby]

http://www.medievaltimes.com/atlanta.aspx

There's something like that in Toronto - they wanted to use some of the AEMMA students for dueling but found them too violent .
( ie injurious )

Still - it'd be pretty cool .


When I was in Český Krumlov we ate at a 14th century style restaurant ( Chicken grilled over a fire pit , wooden spoons steal knives , potato soup , rye bread stinky cheese , communal salt and a big ass dog that wandered all over the room - rough fun )