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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
Love the mix of modern recipes and historical ones for almost every dish. And it has pictures. I am yet to cook anything from it so I don't know how easy the recipes are to follow, but I really enjoyed reading it. I am gathering inspiration for a huge LARP and this was perfect for that.
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I love it, had already some meals and it is amazing that you can achieve with so little effort so much great taste!
I love cooking, particularly hearty, flavourful foods. I love A Song of Ice and Fire. I also love Medieval Europe (touristing only, there is no way I’d like to live then). I think it’s rather obvious that A Feast of Ice & Fire is right up my alley. All three of my alleys, in fact.
The book takes us to the different locations of ASOIAF: the Wall, the North, the South, King’s Landing, Dorne, and across the Narrow Sea. For each location, there are several dishes mentioned in the books (all include a breakfast) with recipes. Even better, many of the dishes are presented with two recipes – one drawn from medieval sources (using the term “medieval” loosely, as they actually span the period from the Roman Empire to the Elizabethan period, and some of them are not European in origin), and one modern variation.
Some of the ingredients can be hard to find, but the book includes a list of substitutions.
The best part is that all of the recipes are fairly simple, most having only a handful of steps. It would actually be feasible to put on a multi-course Game of Thrones dinnerparty without running yourself ragged.
This is a thoroughly enjoyable cookbook, for regular use as well as for it’s novelty gimmick. It would make a great gift for a reasonably experienced cook who likes experimentation and trying new things.
The book takes us to the different locations of ASOIAF: the Wall, the North, the South, King’s Landing, Dorne, and across the Narrow Sea. For each location, there are several dishes mentioned in the books (all include a breakfast) with recipes. Even better, many of the dishes are presented with two recipes – one drawn from medieval sources (using the term “medieval” loosely, as they actually span the period from the Roman Empire to the Elizabethan period, and some of them are not European in origin), and one modern variation.
Some of the ingredients can be hard to find, but the book includes a list of substitutions.
The best part is that all of the recipes are fairly simple, most having only a handful of steps. It would actually be feasible to put on a multi-course Game of Thrones dinnerparty without running yourself ragged.
This is a thoroughly enjoyable cookbook, for regular use as well as for it’s novelty gimmick. It would make a great gift for a reasonably experienced cook who likes experimentation and trying new things.
I mean, this one gets points just for tackling a subject like this. Now I know not everyone is a Game of Thrones fan, and I've even tried to not dismiss the non-fans from my life, but this is a hard one. While George R.R. Martin throws in a lot of food descriptions and moments at the table, he's not exactly giving ingredient lists or techniques (we're talking the books here, not the TV series). The authors don't let that stop them, and have managed to delve into what amounts to medieval English cooking and modern English cooking, and find a strangely satisfying balance. They speculate on classic dishes that come close to fitting the descriptions of what Martin meanders on about, try it out, present it, photograph it (beautifully I might add), and then in many of the cases, turn around and come up with a modern take on the same dish or ingredients, and do the same. The one drawback, in some ways, is the subject matter - though it may be my own failing, I don't think there was a single recipe that enticed me to try making it - it felt like the kind of food one might make for a dinner party of fans of either the books or TV series, but probably for little other reason.
I don't know how to fully rate this book. I'm vegan and in no way shape or form plan on turning back. I love cookbooks thought and this one intrigued me. I've always had an allure to old old school cooking methods. I want to try and recreate and veganize these dishes. Some of them will be damn near impossible but I'm sure I can find a way. So for me to say this book was wonderful, I don't know. I won't be following it to exacts. But I can say this, a lot of the dished sounded like they would be. I'll put an update up once I've cooked more of my verisons of these dishes.
It seems as all the gods have been smiling in terms of the timing of my post about this book. I was a bit disappointed when I saw that someone else had requested it from the library so I couldn't renew it but, given that I have been reading A Feast for Crows, indulging in watching Season 3 of Game of Thrones this week and Season 4 starts on Monday, the timing really couldn't be better.
This book is actually by two bloggers who started blogging about the food from George R R Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series over at In at the Crossroads and ended up with a book deal. Not only did they get a book deal, it is the officially sanctioned companion cookbook for the series and as such it includes a foreword from George R R Martin, In it he confesses to not being able to cook much at all, which given how much food is mentioned in the books might be a little surprising.
Whilst this is undoubtedly a book for the fans of the series, whether it be the books or the TV series, there are definitely aspects of the book that might be of interest to other people who like to read about historical food.
To read more head to http://www.theintrepidreader.com/2014/04/a-feast-of-ice-and-fire-official.html
Fabulous cookbook. Nicely themed recipes, well researched. Good spread of main courses, snacks and beverages as well.
The challenge: can we eat like Westerosis without gluten, dairy and rabbits (two of whom are our family members)?
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!
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