The past decade has ushered in a wave of such fictional feasting through a genre of cookbooks that reverse engineer the foods of popular movies, television shows, books, and video games into recipes for the home kitchen. Thumb through The Official Harry Potter Cookbook and you'll find instructions for whipping up a batch of Hagrid's Dragon Eggs. Open The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook for a method of turning figs into Demogorgons. In The Official Witcher Cookbook, you'll learn how to brew a Sorcerer's Beef Stew, while Friends: The Official Cookbook breaks down how to make Monica's Onion Galette. "It's just a whole other way to cosplay," says Elena Craig, a recipe developer who's written cookbooks for the worlds of Harry Potter, Deadpool, and Hocus Pocus. |