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A Feast of Ice & Fire: The Official Companion Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel & Sariann Lehrer

Cookbook Type: Fictional, Historical, Medieval

Favourite Recipe: Onions in Gravy (pg. 62)

Favourite Page: Bowls of Brown (pg 152)

Favourite Quote: “Warm, rich, with a bit of a bite to it, the sauce is subtly exotic. However, it is not so strong that it overpowers the flavor of the snake and instead complements the slight gaminess of the meat” (pg 182)

Rating: 3/5 Larousse Gastronomiques (📕📕📕)

While some of the more fanciful recipes call for ingredients such as rattlesnake and locusts, A Feast of Ice and Fire is actually a fairly accessible set of recipes for fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series by George R R Martin. If you’ve ever delved into the fantastical works of this great author, you have no doubt found yourself wishing you could eat Lemon Cakes with Sansa, or try a Bowl of Brown that had been simmering for days in Flea’s Bottom (Is there meat in it? Are you sure?)

I don’t normally put stock into fictionalized food turned into modern recipes, but I actually made quite a few of these, and frankly enjoyed it. Monroe-Cassel and Lehrer do an impressive job molding the fantasy into reality by presenting either the fictionalized concept, or a real world medieval recipe, and then offering the reader a modernized version.

George R R Martin offers his blessing by writing the introduction, and Westeros is perfectly represented in sections, breaking the recipes into their respective parts of the fictional world.

If you’re wondering, your Auntie Recipe pictures herself as more of a Highgarden in the streets, Dorne in the … well you know what we’re getting at.

You can get your own copy here: A Feast of Ice & Fire