Halo: The Official Cookbook Review: Please Chief, Can I Have Some Moa
Video games and food aren't something most would talk about in the same breath, but there are an awful lot of connections between the two worlds. Whether it's games that task you with rustling up delicious grub like Overcooked and Cooking Mama, or simply food featured in games looking so good you wish you were an NPC in its universe so you could try it for real. If anything on the dining tables of the Halo series has ever made your mouth water, I have some very good news, and it doesn't even require you to leave this mortal coil and take up the role of an NPC in an endless loop to experience it.
No, this is far simpler. Well, unless you dare to try and build the Full-Stack Ground Pounder, but more on that in a little while. There is now an official Halo cookbook, and I had the chance to flick through its pages and sample some delicacies Master Chief and his fellow Spartans eat and drink when they're not saving the galaxy. What's a lot of fun and sometimes downright amusing is the perspective from which the cookbook has been written. It's not a “these are the meals you've seen/are enjoyed in Halo, try making them yourself”. Instead, the book is written from the perspective of a human named Arturo Bustamante who lives within the Halo universe.
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Bustamante takes the reader on a culinary journey of their world, splitting the book into various sections filled with recipes inspired by different eating establishments they've frequented over the years. Fronk's, Kuku's Cafe, even the UNSC High Fleet Dining Hall. The amusement comes in the introductions at the start of each chapter. Most label the food as little more than slop, especially when introducing the section made up
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