Fandom Snowflake 2021: Challenge #7

[scrubjayspeaks]

Challenge #7: In your own space, create your own challenge.

Make some fannish food! Lots of fandoms have glorious food embedded in the canon or the fanon--hobbit meals for LotR viewing parties, movie night snacks in Avengers Tower, or attempts to reconstruct a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster and survive the experience. So make something inspired by your fandom and post about it--pictures definitely a bonus. And hey, if your granola bar is cosplaying as lembas bread today, that totally counts too.

If you can't make something right now, consider posting about your favorite fannish cookbook or recipes. It's a work night, so I can't cook at the moment myself. But I love my copy of Dinah Bucholz's Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook, which has a recipe for cauldron cakes (pancakes) that I make when I really want to get fancy in the morning. And the Skyrim cookbook I got from the library was enough fun, I think I need to get a copy for myself.

And finally, if cooking isn't your thing but eating is, just tell me about the fictional food you would most want to feast on if you had the chance.

If you do this challenge in any way, I'd love for you to comment here with a link to your post so I can see!

Comments

Re: Yes ...

[scrubjayspeaks]

Oh yes! I can't remember if I first heard about the Skyrim one from you or if your reports from it simply encouraged me to track down a copy.

The sign of a good fantasy series: it warrants its own cookbooks.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I agree. A cookbook isn't just a sign of popularity, it's a sign of kick-ass worldbuilding. The author(s) paid enough attention to the setting to know what foods would be available and how people chose to prepare them. Then it's just a matter of figuring out local analogs for the unavailable bits.

My very best venison recipe? Came out of Hallelaine, my early fantasy setting. Deer-in-a-Thicket is made with a handful of blackberries (representing what the deer has eaten) wrapped in ground venison wrapped in hot pork sausage (representing the thorns).

I've been able to find local approximation recipes for most foods from Terramagne, but some I just have to describe because the local ingredients aren't available the same way. Like here, all you can get is "spring mix" salad greens, but T-America has "winter mix" and other seasons too. Things like the aurora salad really rely on those different blends of leaves. We have the plants here, but to assemble them like that, you'd need either your own winter garden or access to a year-round farmer's market.

I describe them anyway, in hopes that some fans will get lucky, or make their own luck. You never know what will catch on.