Cooking With Your Favorite TV Show
Why just watch your favorite TV shows, when you can cook with them too? That’s the thinking behind a growing number of TV tie-in cookbooks. They promise to let you live like your favorite TV characters by eating like them, and if you’re the type who likes to watch TV with friends, experts say these new cookbooks can add a fun new twist to your next viewing party.
For example: HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” has inspired A Feast of Ice And Fire: The Official Companion Cookbook. It features real medieval recipes dug up from the 15th century, for meals like meat pies, quail drowned in butter, and creamy mushroom-and-snail soup! Experts say the book is so detailed that a bookstore in New York, known for attracting serious food scholars, keeps it in stock!
Next, if you’re a fan of Showtime’s “Mad Men,” check out The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook. For that, the publishers went through every episode of the show, and logged every mention of food or drink. Then, they matched the references to a contemporary recipe. For example: There’s a recipe for the chocolate cake Better Draper baked for her daughter in one episode.
Finally, if you’re a “True Blood” fan, there’s a True Blood-themed cookbook coming out this fall. It’s being developed by Marcelle Bienvenu, the so-called “Queen of Cajun Cooking!” And publishers say it’ll feature recipes with “blood” themes, like a cake dripping with “blood” meringue frosting, and a whole chapter of cocktails with names like “Dead on the Beach” and “Plasma-politan.”
For example: HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” has inspired A Feast of Ice And Fire: The Official Companion Cookbook. It features real medieval recipes dug up from the 15th century, for meals like meat pies, quail drowned in butter, and creamy mushroom-and-snail soup! Experts say the book is so detailed that a bookstore in New York, known for attracting serious food scholars, keeps it in stock!
Next, if you’re a fan of Showtime’s “Mad Men,” check out The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook. For that, the publishers went through every episode of the show, and logged every mention of food or drink. Then, they matched the references to a contemporary recipe. For example: There’s a recipe for the chocolate cake Better Draper baked for her daughter in one episode.
Finally, if you’re a “True Blood” fan, there’s a True Blood-themed cookbook coming out this fall. It’s being developed by Marcelle Bienvenu, the so-called “Queen of Cajun Cooking!” And publishers say it’ll feature recipes with “blood” themes, like a cake dripping with “blood” meringue frosting, and a whole chapter of cocktails with names like “Dead on the Beach” and “Plasma-politan.”
