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World of warcraft cookbook5/27/2023 While there are many recipes in this book suited to a vegetarian lifestyle, there are also a number that can be adapted for a vegetarian diet.ĭepending on the recipe, the change might be as simple as swapping the chicken broth for a vegetable- or mushroom-based broth. Here are a few guidelines to help you customize the recipes in this book into something you can enjoy worry-free. In addition, a number of recipes are marked to indicate that, with a few small changes, they can be made to fit one of those categories. In the back of this book is a helpful list of all the recipes covered, organized into sections for vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free cooking. As I am not proficient in cooking with such restrictions, I suspect that, in many of these cases, you will know more about the subject than I ever could. In this day and age, many of us either struggle with our own dietary restrictions and sensitivities or cook for someone who does. It’s an adventure that will likely end with some really tasty foods. Experiment with interesting new peppers or various types of salt. Level up your seasoning collection: If you’ve been hoarding the same bottle of ground cinnamon for the last decade, it’s probably time to bin it in favor of some fresh stuff. Spices have been treasured throughout the ages, and that connection with history remains with them, giving dishes a richer feeling of authenticity. Nothing beats a whiff of warm fresh cinnamon or the cool peppery bite of juniper berry. New recipes are a perfect excuse to try something you’ve never had before, so go on a quest through your local market.ĭespite the impressive globalization of foodstuffs in the modern world, good spices remain one of those items that have retained just a hint of the exotic. If you have access to game meat, great! Want the Lukewarm Yak Roast Broth to taste more unique? Go for some bison meat. The right spices, peppers, salts, vegetables, and meat can make the difference between a dish that leaves a lot to be imagined and one that just might convince you that you’re on the plains of Mulgore after all. Just because we are using nonimaginary ingredients and a modern kitchen doesn’t mean we have to settle for anything less than delicious cuisine that evokes the aesthetic of World of Warcraft. The very reason that you can already imagine what these fictional dishes taste like is because the foods of Azeroth have a basis in our own reality. What do you mean there are no chimaeroks in your world? Seriously, why did you even buy this cookbook if the recipes all rely on ingredients that are imaginary?ĭon’t worry. In that case, just swing by your local market for some fresh Chimaerok Chops, then take your giant wheelbarrow to the Auction House for a Juicycrunch Carrot, so you can. More than reasonable, really, given that these recipes started as items in a game it’s only natural that some amount of adjustment was bound to happen during their transformation into real food. You want to cook these dishes in your oven at home? Well, I suppose that’s reasonable. Start with some kindling and twigs and then. The trick to cooking Azerothian cuisine is learning to build a proper cooking fire. Here’s hoping you all stay Well Fed on your journey through this book! I hope you’ll find some of your old favorites-and perhaps discover a few new ones, too. In creating this cookbook, I’ve tried to keep things relatively simple while staying as true as possible to the dishes and recipes within the game. Cooking mythological creatures is all well and good when sitting in front of a computer, but when it comes to bringing that recipe to life in the kitchen? Well. The world of Warcraft is just such a place, where fish both common and rare can be caught in countless bodies of water, where the farmers of Pandaria battle virmen that threaten their crops of enormous vegetables, and where an unusually high number of nonplayer characters need help collecting ingredients for recipes both delicious and dodgy.Īnd while a lack of details can prove problematic, so too can having such a wealth of them. In those cases, a stew is just a stew, and bread is just plain old boring bread, no matter how sustaining.īut then there are fictional realms that are so inventive, so creative and unique, that they are instantly immersive. Sometimes a world is not rich enough-not fully imagined enough-to provide adequate details about the foods. The difficulty with creating real recipes for fictional dishes lies in the worldbuilding.
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