Eat Like Your Favorite CHaracters

 Since childhood we've always wanted to be like our favorite characters. We still do it even as adults, Now we can eat like them too thanks to all sorts of cookbooks. You can dine like Spock or feast like a Stark.

Priya Krishna, a regular contributor to the New York Times Food section wrote about this in today;s issue. Cookbooks based on TV show shave been around for a while. There was The Dark Shadows (!) Cookbook as well as one based on the Partridge Family. There was even A LIttle House On The Prairie one. Now it's more intense thanks to streaming platforms and amusement parks that cater to fans.It also took The Sopranos Family Cookbook that came out in 2002 which sold more than 142,000 copies and The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook in 2010 which sold more than a million copies!!! These showed major publishers that these can be considered a lucrative genre. Some books are centered around food shows and movies like "Bob's Burger" and the fun movie "Ratatouille". Others are eye brow raising as in the "Walking Dead Cookbook" and "Hannibel". Really???

Of course "Game of Thrones" was a big part of everyone across the globe's lives. It's no wonder that there's a cookbook.Ms.Krishna has even included a lemon cake recipe from a cookbook based on the show. Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer A Feast Of Ice and Fire : The Official Game Of Thrones Companion Cookbook which was written almost ten years ago. Most of the recipes are taken from medieval and Elizabethan cookbooks. They can work at a Christmas or holiday party, especially if there's wassailing.There's also the Avatar The Last Airbender Official  Cookbook which has dishes from the Four Kingdoms.Now there is a brand new cookbook based on Wakanda called The Official Wakanda Cookbook written by NYanyika Banda. Ms, Banda had to up her game with the recipes thanks to the rabid fandom surrounding "Black Panther. She includes chambo, a traditional fish dish from Malawi which speaks to Wakanda's varying locations throughout the continent. It's what they want and know. Fifteen years ago they wouldn't be this passionate. Now they are.

You can eat like your favorite characters. Get the cookbook that features your favorite show or comics. Then you can feast like the Starks or enjoy ravioli like The Many Saints of Newark.