George R.R. Martin to Game of Thrones fans: Indulge in King Robert’s Crown Roast
On May 7, author Chelsea Monroe-Cassel’s The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook arrives to bookstores, offering 80 recipes culled from across the Seven Kingdoms. In his foreword for the book, A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin heartily endorses Monroe-Cassel’s documentation of the delicacies that range from Dothraki to Dornishmen, and goes a step further, making the case for why he’s a fan of indulging in the “gratuitous.” Read on for Martin’s words, debuting exclusively on Polygon, and a recipe for a roast worthy of the writer’s filling tomes.
Are you hungry again?
Good. This is just the book for you: a cookbook full of recipes from the world of Westeros, the setting for A Song of Ice & Fire, Fire & Blood, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and my other epic fantasies.
Over a decade ago, we gave you the first official cookbook, A Feast of Ice & Fire, with recipes from all of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and a few of the lands beyond. That was very well received, so here we are again. Make no mistake; that book is not this book. You cannot eat the same thing every day, so Chelsea Monroe-Cassel has returned with all new dishes, compiled with the aid of Maester Alton—a food-obsessed maester of the Citadel, who has wandered through the realms and throughout history, collecting recipes from both high tables and low.
They certainly tempt me. I don’t cook... but I do eat. That much I have in common with my characters. Rich or poor, old or young, male or female, maester or mummer, highborn or low, we all need to eat... and what we eat can say a lot about us.
There is a lot of food in my novels. Everything from wedding feasts with seventy-seven courses to that horse’s heart that Daenerys Targaryen wolfed down. Too much food, certain critics are wont to complain. The word they like to trot out is gratuitous. Uncalled for, unnecessary, unwarranted, just too damn much. My great big fat novels would not be nearly so big and fat if only I would cut out all the
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