There's a couple book series that I consider myself a big fan of, so I when I found out that couple of them had
cookbooks based off the food some of my favorite characters ate, I was pretty excited. Most of these recipes seem like they're more fun to read than to cook. But either way, they're fun extras for fans. If you're a fan of any of these series, check out these cookbooks!
1. A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cooking CookbookWith help from George R. R. Martin himself, this cookbook is based off all the delicious food eaten in the different places in this fantasy series. With recipes for mulled wine, like they drink on the Wall, and lemon cakes served at Winterfell, it definitely gives you recipes for foods worthy for a feast.
2. The Unofficial Harry Potter CookbookRecipes for some pumpkin pasties, treacle tart, and Mrs. Weasley's meat pies. I always thought the food in Harry Potter sounded amazing (magical, even) and I definitely want to get this cookbook just to have a Harry Potter themed dinner.
3. The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: From Lady Mary's Crab Canapes to Mrs. Patmore's Christmas PuddingThis series is one my new favorites to watch and it seems like more than half the scenes involves the characters at a breakfast of dinner table. It's fun to think that they have recipes from the servants' meals and the upper class' meals. There's also a whole chapter dedicated to just tea.
4. The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook: From Lamb Stew to "Groosling"Katniss's favorite lamb stew with dried plums, french bread from Peeta's family's bakery, and the fancy food that the people of the Capitol stuff their faces with while kids fight to the death. Maybe it's not the best series to make a cookbook for.... but it's still worth a read.
5. The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic StoriesHasty pudding, jackrabbit stew, dried fruit and hard cheese recipes from the lives of prairie people. I loved this series as a little girl. And the food, especially the food they made in the winter, always sounded so good. It would be nice to see if my childhood memory of how the book food sounded tastes as good if I made it as an adult.
I get the feeling reading these cookbooks will make me want to read the actually series they're based off all over again. That's not a bad thing. Better than indigestion.
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I actually have the Little House Cookbook but I got it as a kid. I should try some of the recipes! And even if I don't, I found the book kind of interesting to read. I love cookbooks, but I hardly cook out of anything of them, so I may look for these you've mentioned. I especially like old cookbooks, the kind you'd find in someone's grandma's attic, or find in a thrift store just to see what kind of things people ate in the past. They recently opened an used bookstore in a nearby shopping center, all the hardcovers go for $2, I love browsing through them there! I hope to find an older copy of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking or Irma Rombauer's The Joy of Cooking. There is a book I actually have cooked out of--Better Homes and Garden's New Cookbook (you know, the red plaid). Growing up my parents and grandparents cooked mostly Chinese food, so I really had no idea how to cook anything else--I found the book to be simple yet informative. I still use a lot of the recipes as the starting point. We all know, we cook to suit our tastes, right?
I have The Nancy Drew cookbook from when I was a kid. I also On my way! The Cat Who cookbook which is based off a book series. And the set of cookbooks that evolve around the original set of American Dolls which contain some of mt favorite recipes that I use quite frequently. Downtown Abbey sounds great so I might have to look for that one.
I want the Downton Abbey one!
I just got hooked on this show.
I had to give it a go since it beat out Merlin AND Sherlock at the NTAs and I thought it was a joke; it was going to be a load of rubbish... now I'm on season 3 (watched it all in a week lol)
I've never owned a cookbook, much less one based on a book/programme; I usually just google recipes and then add them to my favourites if I like them.
I want a Lord of the Rings cookbook!
i want the downton abbey cookbook!
Not a bad thing at all! Sounds like an amusing thing to do. Plus a fun way to learn how to cook..
Honestly, I'd want The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook. Every single time food is brought up, I get hungry thinking about the dishes. I guess it helps that I somewhat imagine that I'm starving when reading through her perspective.
yes i too would love to try those from the harry potter series. although, those from downtown abbey should be equally entertaining, if not, more civilized :)