PRINTTV- and movie-inspired cookbooks
Whip up a meal that your favorite characters would love
June 28, 2012 | 12:00 a.m. CST
Following the success of HBO’s fantasy drama Game of Thrones, fans Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer recently published A Feast of Ice & Fire, a cookbook companion to the TV and book series. Lehrer and Monroe-Cassel are a small part of a large trend of publishing media-based cookbooks that allow audiences to recreate their favorite fictional meals in a non-fiction world, characters excluded.
Love at First Bite: The Unofficial Twilight Cookbook by Gina Meyers
Publisher: iUniverse
Price: $14.95
Release date: March 7, 2009
Although the Cullens would prefer to feast on blood, maybe these recipes can tempt them to give real food and beverages a try. The unofficial Twilight cookbook contains a quiz designed to test your Twilight knowledge as well as recipes for Bella’s lasagna, red velvet cake and numerous delicious drinks to quench the vicious thirst built up by pursuing a forbidden love.
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz
Publisher: Adams Media
Price: $19.95 (hardcover)
Release date: Sept. 18, 2010
As painful as it might be to accept that you will never get a letter from Hogwarts informing you that you’re a wizard, at least you can enjoy the same treats as Harry, Hermione and Ron. Bring a little magic to your kitchen with this Harry Potter cookbook, featuring recipes such as Pumpkin Pasties, Molly’s Meat Pies and Kreacher’s French Onion Soup. Whether you pretend your favorite cooking utensil is a magic wand is up to you.
The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin
Publisher: Smart Pop
Price: $16.95
Release date: Nov. 29, 2011
Pretend you’re Don Draper. You’ve just come home after a long day of drinking, chain-smoking and berating low-level employees. We can’t all be Don Draper; Don Draper isn’t even Don Draper. But at least The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook allows us to eat like the mysterious ad man. Along with a recipe for the perfect Old-Fashioned, this cookbook offers up dishes straight from the kitchens of some of the best restaurants in 1960s New York City.
The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook by Emily Ansara Baines
Publisher: Adams Media
Price: $19.95 (hardcover)
Release date: Dec. 1, 2011
Although Katniss and Gale must rely on their hunting skills to acquire food, you can gorge yourself like a citizen of the Capitol with delicious recipes from all 12 districts. The recipes, inspired by passages straight from The Hunger Games series, include decadent dishes from the Capitol and simple recipes from the districts. The cookbook also includes “Katniss’ Family Book of Herbs” and describes herbs such as chicory and chickweed.
A Feast of Ice & Fire by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer
Publisher: Bantam
Price: $35 (hardcover)
Release date: May 29, 2012
You might never be able to share a meal with Tyrion Lannister at King’s Landing, but now you can pretend you’re dining with the quick-witted King’s uncle from the comfort of your home. A Feast of Ice & Fire allows you to dine like anyone who resides in The Realm. The cookbook features recipes from every corner of the seven kingdoms. Medieval recipes include apple cakes, cream swans and Aurochs, a species of European ox, roasted with leeks.
Coming Soon
True Blood: Eats, Drinks, and Bites from Bon Temps by Gianna Sobol, Alan Ball, Karen Sommer Shalett and Marcelle Beinvenu
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Price: $29.95 (hardcover)
Release date: Aug. 29, 2012
The official True Blood cookbook provides fans of the paranormal drama with 85 authentic bayou-country recipes and more than 150 exclusive photos from the hit HBO series. Recipes are introduced by True Blood’s most unforgettable characters and will please even the pickiest humans, vampires, maynads, werewolves and any other mythical being you can imagine. This cookbook offers directions for preparing authentic Cajun food that will make you feel like you’re sitting down for dinner in Bon Temps.
