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A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
4.25 AVERAGE
50 reviews for:
A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
4.25 AVERAGE
A cool book that is a great reminder to be grateful that you don't have to eat the food from Westeros LOLLLL
Some interesting recipes to try out, including a couple of dishes which have pretty easy-to-get ingredients.
The authors draw from Roman and medieval cookbooks to replicate dishes suggested by Martin's text, explaining historical cooking techniques (why so many pies?) and preservation by products (dried fruit desserts, salted meats). most recipes have a labor-intensive adapted historical version and a modernized one that takes advantage of things like pre-made pie crusts and frozen fruit, should you not have a legion of flunkies nearby.
I read the galley of this on my way home from work today. Some of the food I immediately fell in love with - the lemon cakes, lemonsweet, bean and bacon soup (and everything else with bacon in it) - but there are some dishes I will definitely be avoiding. As I am not a fan of rabbit, snake, lamb, or God help me, locusts, there will definitely be some picking and choosing. But the dishes I want to try look so good I can't wait for the finished copy!
Amazing pictures, descriptions, and recipes. I loved the historical and modern versions of the recipes and I love the extra dimension this adds to the experience of these novels.
I've read a lot of book themed cookbooks and this one is the best. It is "official" and has a comical introduction by George R.R. Martin.
The recipes themselves are divided into areas of Westeros starting with the Wall in the North and working their way down to Dorne, then sailing across the Narrow Sea to the free cities. The recipes are great! I have made several of them throughout the book and I am vegetarian, but there are some great looking dishes that I'm sure carnivores would love as well. Most of the recipes have a direct reference tying them to dishes mentioned in the book and/or a reference to medieval recipes. The authors researched their recipes and found versions of them in actual medieval cookbooks. With each medieval dish there is a "modern" version as well.
So much fun!
The recipes themselves are divided into areas of Westeros starting with the Wall in the North and working their way down to Dorne, then sailing across the Narrow Sea to the free cities. The recipes are great! I have made several of them throughout the book and I am vegetarian, but there are some great looking dishes that I'm sure carnivores would love as well. Most of the recipes have a direct reference tying them to dishes mentioned in the book and/or a reference to medieval recipes. The authors researched their recipes and found versions of them in actual medieval cookbooks. With each medieval dish there is a "modern" version as well.
So much fun!
I feel like it'd inaccurate for me to give it a full five stars as I didn't actually make anything in this book, but it was a nice read. I read the blog as they were making dishes, and would probably be more likely to refer to that for recipes though it looks like in process of publishing, some recipes are book-only alas (makes sense, though- got to have something worth paying for, after all). Having medieval versions & modern versions are excellent, though I do wonder if we can really call anything 'authentic' if from a fantasy verse? They do an excellent job at translating old cookery book recipes, though, especially adapting for a modern kitchen.
I love this author! I have her Warcraft cookbooks, the Elder Scrolls one, her Hearthstone cookbook and her Overwatch one. I have borrowed the Star Trek one from my local library. Five stars for any of them.
I don’t know what went wrong here. After such a successful run, I have a hard time believing it was the author. Excessive oversight, maybe? A publisher who cheated out on the photography?
I have no idea.
But for the first time in my collection of cookbooks by Monroe - Cassell, there isn’t a picture for every recipe and the ingredients are not things I can acquire. I can’t comment on its success as a fan of the books or the show, but as a cookbook fan - it gets a hard pass.
I don’t know what went wrong here. After such a successful run, I have a hard time believing it was the author. Excessive oversight, maybe? A publisher who cheated out on the photography?
I have no idea.
But for the first time in my collection of cookbooks by Monroe - Cassell, there isn’t a picture for every recipe and the ingredients are not things I can acquire. I can’t comment on its success as a fan of the books or the show, but as a cookbook fan - it gets a hard pass.
