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What’s the process of coming up with a new recipe? Do you draw from historic sources? Try to emulate the game’s crafting or cooking process?

My first fictional food meal was a Redwall feast with friends, and we made a bunch of recipes that I’d probably find cringeworthy now, but I think that was the start of everything.

The art in those books is just lovely, and the pantries of the little mouse houses were always packed to the gills with The idea of mouse feasts was reinforced when I discovered the Redwall series later in childhood, and even though I was a terribly picky eater, the food was so lovingly described that I found I was desperate to know what a strawberry cordial or a watercress tart tasted like. The first time I remember encountering it was in the Brambly Hedge series when I was very small. Polygon: Have you always been interested in fictional foods? What piqued your interest in crafting recipes for fantasy settings?Ĭhelsea Monroe-Cassel: Curiously, I really have almost always been interested in fictional foods. Polygon spoke with Monroe-Cassel over email to learn how she develops recipes for foods that don’t exist in the real world. Her latest book of recipes, inspired by the cuisine from the Elder Scrolls franchise, will be published on March 26. Since then, she’s workshopped recipes inspired by The Witcher, Star Wars, and various other geeky properties on her long-running blog, and published cookbooks based on the cuisines of World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and Lord of the Rings. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2011, which were eventually published in an official companion cookbook. She started blogging recipes based on George R.R. Monroe-Cassel has built a career out of bringing fictional foods to life.

In addition to providing temporary upgrades or filling up a health bar, video game food assists in world-building, adding flavor (pun most certainly intended) to the gameplay experience.įor food writer Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, crafting meals in video games is way more than just a quick way to replenish some HP - it’s research. From Hylian Shrooms to 1-Up mushrooms, Nuka-Cola to Grog, food plays an important role in video games.