The world of Westeros is brimming over with food. If you watch Game of Thrones on HBO, you’ve probably noticed some of the amazing feasts. If you read George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, you had to notice the massive amounts of food mentioned in the pages. Martin often goes into delicious detail about the feasts and dishes of each part of the kingdom. Just browse over this list of every mention of food and beverage in the series to get an idea of what’s on Westerosi tables. Those little details make the world feel real rather than fictional, and they also make a person quite hungry.
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer found themselves so drawn to the food that they started to research medieval recipes and bring Martin’s words to the table. Then they started blogging about it. I stumbled across The Inn at the Crossroads when I was searching for recipes to prep for the season one finale of Game of Thrones. I was very impressed to find a place with thoroughly researched and tested recipes that offered medieval and modern interpretations with easy to follow instructions. However, what got to me most of all about the site was the obvious passion these ladies have for Martin’s epic fantasy series.
All their hours slaving over a hot stove and tracking down wacky ingredients paid off. Their cookbook, A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook, will be hitting store shelves and kitchens everywhere on May 29, 2012. It even has an introduction written by George R.R. Martin. Yeah, that’s an official endorsement. Their blog caught his attention, and the wheels turned from there. That’s Nerdalicious recently asked the authors some questions about cooking in the world of Westeros.
Read the interview after the break.
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Cutting vegetables and fruits will be at least twice as fun if you’re doing it on this snazzy Mario cutting board. If you cut mushrooms on it, who knows what will happen.
This wood grain board is custom built and takes about 2-3 weeks to put together. Mario not your style? Hit up the seller to talk about other characters you’d like to see on the literal chopping block.
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This Wonder Woman goblet is not only glittery and fabulous, it’s also gigantic. This officially licensed DC Comics glass holds 40oz of your favorite beverage. That’s about the size of the large bucket-like drinks at fast food establishments, but you can fill this cup with something better than soda.
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Alan Rickman has a flair for the dramatic. He can perform even the most mundane of tasks and make it look like the most important thing in the world. Even making tea. Tea time has never looked like this, and I suspect it never will again.
Watch the video after the break—and hang in there through the 4:20 mark.
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The Nestle Crunch Bars in Girl Scout cookie flavors are almost here. News about the tasty treats was released earlier this year, but now we’ve learned that the product is scheduled to hit store shelves on June 1 and run through September. The bars take on the flavors of Thin Mints, Caramel Delights, and Tagalongs. Yum. You can indulge in full size bars or boxes of tiny fun-size bars—and by “fun”, they mean small enough to eat at least a dozen in one sitting.
I’m so screwed when these are available. If you simply can’t wait until June 1, you can participate in a pre-sale on Nestle’s Facebook page.
Read the full description of the flavors after the break.
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Star Trek II is currently being filmed in the wilds of Northern California. Filming a movie is hard work, so Chris Pine (Kirk), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Zachary Quinto (Spock), and Benedict Cumberbatch (villain TBA) took a night to go to the local Hooters. We know this because those of that group who have Twitter accounts all tweeted about it, bless them. With pictures, double bless them.
The pics and tweets show the group hanging, drinking, in the car, and eating breakfast the morning after. It makes me happy.
See a few of the tweets after the break.
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Sunday nights currently boast two of the best television shows currently airing: Game of Thrones and Mad Men. For taking place in completely different worlds, they have more than a couple of things in common. Neither show is overly respectful towards women, both shows have a fair amount of sex, and both shows have even more drinking.
Vulture wondered which series had the most drinks so far this season. They’ve paid close attention and tallied the number of sips of booze in a video that will make you forget about the drinking games you have scheduled for the next episodes.
Watch the scores go up and up in the video after the break.
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Friendship is magic, and alcohol can be magical. These hand-etched My Little Pony shot glasses will make any drinking game at least ten times more adorable. In fact, make up a My Little Pony drinking game and use the glasses for it. Just plan ahead because it takes two weeks for these custom glasses to ship.
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It’s challenging enough to pack lunch every single day. You have to come up with fresh ideas and different meals so neither you or the recipient of the lunches get bored. Heather Sitarzewski has taken it one step further.
She packs a bento box for her son every day and sculpts a different cartoon character from the food. She’s created a plethora of Disney characters from cold cuts and vegetables, and she’s also tackled some nerdier designs like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Muppets, Angry Birds, and more.
See more fun designs after the break.
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Kick-start your morning by drinking your coffee from this Sonic Screwdriver mug. Watching a Dalek being blown to pieces by the Doctor’s weapon of choice is a sunny way to start the day.
This product will be available in May.
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