Forgive the shameless self-promo, but I also got to interview her last month: I ended up having photos of just about half the recipes in the book, though! Ĭhelsea is incredible. Apologies for poor quality, as most of my cooking was done in the evening and photos were taken with a bad cell camera. Uh.ask me anything, I guess? I can share more photos of recipes later, though most of the early ones are on a bad cell phone camera.ĮDIT: I started blogging about some of the later recipes at my personal blog, so that includes some photos of the last recipes I worked on: ĮDIT 2: Here's a link with all the other photos I could find. It also encompasses a wide variety of food types, so if you're looking to expand your culinary or consuming horizons, this is a great place to be with some fun lore behind it.
Every recipe in it is at least good (a few, I would argue, are good but not worth the large amount of effort) and many are great. I highly recommend this cookbook if you have any skill or interest in the kitchen at all and love WoW. which was the only recipe I had not yet done in the World of Warcraft Cookbook. I do have photos of about 1/3 of the ones I did and can tell you lots of details about every one of them, so that's what I got.Īnyway, as the title says, I made Delicious Chocolate Cake yesterday. With Warcraft, the world is so expansive that there’s a lot to work with.I wish I had actual, photo proof of every single recipe to show you, but when I started on this 15-month-long endeavor I didn't think I was actually going to do all of them until about the ~30 recipe mark, and even then I didn't really start photo cataloging them until near the end. “The most important thing for me in the process of making fictional food into real recipes is authenticity,” she says. “The recipes have to be as authentic as possible to the world, culture, and aesthetic of the source material. Just like her amazing Game of Thrones recipes, Monroe-Cassel’s eye for details and appreciation for accuracy make World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook a must-have for dedicated fans of the game. “They’re these flaky pastries with a cinnamon-almond filling. It took a while to really get the dough recipe balance, which meant that I ate a lot of the ‘failed’ batches. Her favorite recipe from the cookbook, Rylak Claws, are a treat for breakfast or dessert. “I mean, obviously nobody wants to cook with coyote tails or giant hunks of spider meat, right?”īut Monroe-Cassel was up for the challenge, and definitely up for the taste-testing-especially the desserts. In both cases, the ingredients got me,” says Monroe-Cassel. “Westfall Mud Pie was one, Gooey Spider Cakes was another. That sometimes means that not every dish actually makes the final cut, and some just had to stay in Azeroth. Making fictional foods and recipes real takes patience and practice, with usually two or three attempts to perfect a dish.
With a dish like Crunchy Spider Surprise, I looked to nature for inspiration, and swapped in spider’s crab cousin instead.” But when I thought about how a classical chimera was part goat, I decided to go for lamb chops instead. “Sometimes I could use mythology to sort of parse the recipe. With the Chimaerok Chops, for example, I first thought pork chops. “Do night elves have access to tomatoes? Well, that’s never really addressed in the game,” says Monroe-Cassel, “but I reasoned that since tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family, they should fit right in with that lovely but dark setting. (After all, you can’t find boar meat and rylak eggs just anywhere!) “I started by querying fans online so I would know which player favorites would be expected in the finished book,” she says. “Then I went through the master list of foods and drinks, and highlighted those that sounded interesting, delicious, or like they really showcased the setting.”Īfter that, she began looking at specific ingredients in game and determining their real-life counterparts.
With so many recipes in the game, Monroe-Cassel turned to experienced fans and players for the must-have dishes to include in the official cookbook. “Once I started researching for the cookbook, it was absolutely vital that I play the game,” says Monroe-Cassel, “not just to explore the foods and ingredients, but to really get a sense of the world and the aesthetics involved.”
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