Tagged cooking
Jul 02 2025
3 Cookbooks to Get Young Geeks Going in the Kitchen
When I was a preteen, I had a cookbook that was designed to help young people learn to cook: Kids Cooking: A Very Slightly Messy Manual. Sadly, it’s not in print anymore, but I remember being obsessed with it. It’s probably part of the reason I like cooking so much now (that and my inherent enjoyment…
Jan 15 2025
Cook a Feast Fit for a God with the “God of War” Official Cookbook
At first blush, a cookbook based on the God of War video games might seem like an odd choice. But in the most recent installment in the series, God of War: Ragnarök, there are actually a few scenes involving cooking or sharing meals, and there is an entire quest revolving around finding ingredients for…
Jul 23 2024
Count Down to Spooky Season with This Ghostly Cookbook
I love a good ghost story. Whether it’s told around the fire during a summer camping trip or delivered at midnight on Halloween, there is something that gives the perfect level of spooky chill. While most of my campfires have been rained out this summer, July 23 marks 100 days to Halloween, so there…
Jun 05 2024
Heroes’ Feast Flavors of the Multiverse Official D&D Cookbook Is a Culinary Adventure
I feel like we are in a golden age of geeky cookbooks. The last time I went into the bookstore, I found a whole pile of recent guides drawing inspiration from TV shows, video games, and general geekery—so many choices! The old adage states that you eat first with your eyes, so I picked the most visually bombastic…
Apr 30 2024
Warm Up with Mulled Wine
In true midwestern fashion, the weather has been pinballing between all four seasons lately. Even if it’s warm one day, there’s no guarantee we won’t get a snowstorm 24 hours later. It keeps us on our toes, I guess. At least it means we can eke out a few more cold-weather experiences…
Feb 08 2024
The Witcher Official Cookbook Will Help You Slay Your Monstrous Hunger
As I’ve mentioned before, but I am a big fan of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It is one of my top five favorite video games of all time, and I will never not sing its praises. So when I found out that CD Projekt Red, the company that developed the game, was collaborating on an official Witcher cookbook, I was…
Nov 17 2023
3 Tips for Annotating Cookbooks
Usually, when someone talks about annotating their books, my response is a horrified gasp. I was definitely taught from a young age never to write in books, and I find annotated text very difficult to parse if it’d something I am trying to read it straight through, like reading a novel. There are…
Oct 12 2022
Eat Your Way through a Multiverse of Fantasy Faves with This Illustrated Cookbook
I’m back with another geeky cookbook review! This time, I am reviewing Cooking for Wizards, Warriors, and Dragons. Boasting a whopping 125 recipes inspired by an entire library worth of fantasy (and arguably a few sci-fi) books, Cooking for Wizards, Warriors, and Dragons was written by Thea…
Feb 09 2021
Learn Korean Cuisine from a Comic Cookbook
When I found out that there was such a thing as a comic cookbook, I was ecstatic—and yet it still took me years to actually get my hands on one. Now I have a small collection of them, but one I’d like to highlight for you today is Robin Ha’s Cook Korean!
This is a fantastic introduction to the flavors of Korean…
Jan 13 2021
The Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Cookbook Is an In-Universe Delight
I love being able to add a little bit of extra geekiness to daily life, and themed cookbooks definitely help! A little over a year ago, I wrote about 5 Geeky Cookbooks to Bring Fandom to Your Table. This year, my collection expanded when I was gifted a copy of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: The Official …