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

[bibliofile]

For someone who claims not to cook, Alexis Hall ends up writing a lot of stories about people who can cook:

For real -- m/m kinky romance that includes a recipe for lemon meringue pie from a very steamy scene in the book. One of the protagonists is a young dom who's a short-order cook and who happily geeks out about food and learning to cook new things.

< a href="https://quicunquevult.com/books/winner-bakes-all/">Winner bakes all series -- about people doing baking on television, in a couple of contexts. "Expect queerness, kissing, and all the baked goods. Each book can be read as a standalone." (Two books out, with a third in the works.) Paris D. in the second book also has an anxiety disorder, which, yay for realistic character issues.

[bibliofile]

For books with food that sounds amazing, I've liked the cozy mysteries by Mia P. Manansala, the Tita Rosie's Kitchen series. The main character is a baker whose family owns a restaurant. Said baker is always trying to come up with Filipina takes on "standard" (for contemporary US predominant culture) baked goods. Her web site has a bunch of recipes, though there's no section heading to link to. I still want to make the Lila's ubu crinkles (cookies) recipe for my holiday cookie swap.