Doing dishes based on The Hunger Games, it can be easy to forget the thing that stares you in the face every time you hear the name Katniss: the root she’s named after. During one of her flashb...
So many people contact me, comment on my YouTube video, or comment on this site asking me if I’d sell them Mockingjay cupcakes. I’ve never really taken it seriously because I live in the ...
I turned 33 yesterday and one thing that I’ve come to remember about my birthdays is that it’s always right around the Edible Book Contest held on the University of Hawaii campus. Or rath...
Season 2 of HBO’s Game of Thrones premieres this Sunday and so to get the ball rolling on my hit lists for this series, here’s the Fictional Food Hit List for book 1: A Game of Thrones. I...
A pair of my favorite fellow fictional foodies have completed their journey through what I’d imagine was one of the hardest cookbooks to produce ever given the subject matter. The official Game...
It’s Sunday and The Hunger Games is estimated to have smashed through box office records to have landed into the 5th spot of the biggest opening weekends of all time at $155 million domesticall...
Last week, I had the great experience of not only taking a family vacation to Universal Studios with the hubby and kids, but I also got to meet like 5 million of my Hunger Games buddies from the fand...
Last month, the The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion came out and I was really stoked to see that they’d included a whole section of the book about food in the movie. Some of ...
With the movie almost here, people are really getting into the Hunger Games cooking craze! There’s an Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook out late last year (which I am still trying to get a revie...
It’s been quite a while since I made this cake for my son, but I’ve been hit by a lazy blog bug and so I kept forgetting and forgetting to post it. Maybe the zombies snuck up on me and at...
You would think that the second book of The Hunger Games Trilogy, Catching Fire, wouldn’t contain quite as many food references as The Hunger Games, but amazingly, it does! Katniss spends a fai...
In 1962, the science fiction/fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time, about two children and their friend traveling across time to save their father was published and in the 50 years since it has remained a...
When I first heard of the game Plants vs Zombies, it was from actor Jorge Garcia, who played the character Hurley on LOST. He had a blog called Dispatches from the Island and one day, he posted about...
Ron had taken out a lumpy package and unwrapped it. There were four sandwiches inside. He pulled one of them apart and said, “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.” “Sw...
I program the closet for an outfit to my taste. The windows zoom in and out on parts of the city at my command. You need only whisper a type of food from a gigantic menu into a mouthpiece and it appe...
When I did the District 11 bread, I went with whole wheat flour, assuming that by “dark” ration grain, Suzanne Collins simply meant wheat. However, since the Capitol would have all the fr...
Several years ago, when we went to see V for Vendetta, I was immediately captivated by the breakfast that V makes for Evey, which was an egg carefully cooked into a slice of bread. Later, Gordon Diet...
A Bay Area newspaper, Mercury News, has taken an interest in the fictional foods of The Hunger Games, hosting a recipe contest for people who want to mix their cooking skills with their love for the ...
Back in October, I tried doing Goat Cheese and Apple Tarts from The Hunger Games that I really didn’t like all that much. They were “edible”, but they certainly weren’t someth...
Like any little kid, my son loves Angry Birds, so with his birthday this week, I decided to surprise him with a big batch of Angry Birds cupcakes to take with him to school. After printing out pictur...
For the longest time, I’ve been terrified of cooking with eggs. I still screw things up every now and then, but I think I’ve come far enough in egg cooking to not end up huddled in a corn...
So a few weeks back, I got an inquiry about an interview for the Wall Street Journal. Of course, I flipped out from excitement, but yesterday when the article was published, I found out I had more fl...
Back when LOST was about to end, I made these sugar cookies that I dubbed “Sweet Cheeks“, which was one of many of Sawyer’s nicknames for people on the island. I bought a Message in...
When I was a little kid, way back in the 1980s, I used to read this book in the library about a giant jam sandwich. Years went by and when I was in high school, I began to wonder what that book was c...
I lunge for him, but I’m caught and thrust back into another room, and a glass door seals between us. I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol at...
“The fish and greens are already cooking in a stew, but that will be for supper. We decide to save the strawberries and bakery bread for this evening’s meal, to make it special we say.” &...
“We make a goat cheese and apple tart at the bakery,” he says. “Bet that’s expensive,” I say. “Too expensive for my family to eat. Unless it’s gone very stale. Of course, practically everything we ea...
While the table is empty, a long board off to the side has been laid with at least twenty dishes. A young man, an Avox, stands at attention by the spread. When I ask if I can serve myself, he nods as...
A few years back, I finally watched Pixar’s Ratatouille, well after the DVD release. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed a movie about rats, though maybe I shouldn’t be seeing as how I ...
Something I’ve been wanting to do for a while is post blog entries that list all the foods in a particular book, which gives me a nice, concise list of foods to tackle for any given novel. When...
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