Regional Cooking from Middle-Earth: Recipes of the Third Age (More randomness)

[radiantfracture]

Have you got a favorite in the genre of Literary Cookbooks?

Or -- though this is a separate genre and a bit out of fashion now -- Those Novels with Recipes in Them? (See Like Water for Chocolate.)

I have a cherished book produced two decades ago through the print-on-demand place, called Regional Cooking from Middle-Earth: Recipes of the Third Age.

The cookbook is divided regionally -- Shire, Bree, Regions of Rohan, etc., and also has an Index by Season. I think all the recipes are given both in English and in the local languages. It is the very exemplar of a labour of love.

I am almost certain I have never cooked anything from this book, but I feel happier knowing I could. There are three kinds of lembas. The recipes are simple and practical. There is a rabbit stew. Tarcoron, "high mound" is better know in this age as Yorkshire Pudding.

Why the question

I was thinking of trying to make batch cooking feel more appealing by making it literary-flavoured. I did once make a pretty passable Boeuf en Daube for a party.

(So the Surrealist Cookbook would be unhelpful in this instance. I want to make real food for my real body to eat. I just want to eat some ideas at the same time.)

--any edible and palatable crossover would do, really. Cheers!

(For example, I count New England Spider Cake as literary because I learnt it from a post by sovay .)

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Comments

[sabotabby]

Does my own count? (I occasionally toy with the idea of following it up with a collection of Fiction You Can Sink Your Teeth Into).

[radiantfracture]

Yours is great and I refer to it often.

Tell me more about the fiction idea!

[sabotabby]

Oh, we have the column in our newsletter/blog that Rohan normally does that's recipes inspired by fiction. I was thinking of collecting them and publishing them.

[radiantfracture]

Oh, I feel silly -- I do actually read the newsletter (I went back to make sure) but somehow I hadn't clocked the name of the column. I like the idea of a collection -- links people back to the reading, too.

[sabotabby]

I like the idea too, but now I'm once again having Amazon issues and it makes me never want to self-publish again.

[radiantfracture]

I was feeling embittered about the enshittifcation of all transactions this weekend for a much lesser reason -- just watching my dad try to pay for a Tim Hortons order and having to use this stupid app to get points. Of course, the app is designed for recruitment and not at all for actual use, so it's difficult to distinguish between signing up and logging in, for example.

Anyway, it's not the sabotage of your great small-press cookbook by an evil company, but it is tormenting an elderly man for no reason and it makes me mad.

[sabotabby]

Same. I'm increasingly becoming a cash stuffed under the mattress person.