Fans will agree that Game of Thrones is essentially a cookbook with an incredible story in between the recipes. Spend a day in Westeros with this as your guide.
"Game of Thrones" has an official cookbook: "A Feast of Ice & Fire."
The blog that started the cookbook, The Inn at the Crossroads, is run by culinary maester Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. Chelsea helped guide BuzzFeed through a typical day in Westerosi food.
Source: amazon.com
Breakfast - "Breakfast at Winterfell"
“There was much more than she’d asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft-boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea. And with came Maester Luwin.” -A Game of Thrones
Winterfell's a cold, damp place even during the height of summer. So breakfast there has got to stick to your bones and fill you up. This meal of bacon and a soft-boiled egg, cheese, and thick bread with fruit preserves and honey does just that. The recipe from Inn at the Crossroads makes a big breakfast for two, or an AWESOME breakfast for one. It's hearty, but the cup of mint tea evens it out nicely, leaving you ready to run with your direwolf or ride your giant manservant.
Source: innatthecrossroads.com
Lunch - "Beef & Barley Stew"
“'Maybe they don’t have sheep and cattle,' Bran thought. He commanded the serving men to bring them mutton chops and a slice off the aurochs and fill their trenchers with beef-and-barley stew. They seemed to like that well…” -A Clash of Kings
After you burn off that breakfast stomping around in the godswood, come back in for a steamy bowl of beef & barley stew, also in Winterfell. The turnips, garlic, and pearl onions give it a fresh kick, the beef will stay with you all day, and the red wine'll help warm you up. Pair it with some bread and salt (below) to round the meal out.
Source: innatthecrossroads.com
Bread and salt
“…[Once] a maiden girl could walk the kingsroad in her name-day gown and still go unmolested, and travelers could find fire, bread, and salt at many an inn and holdfast.”
Bread and salt is nearly a given throughout all of Westeros, and more or less expected under guest rights. In Westerosi culture, the guest right is a holy tradition established in all of realm's major religions. It begins once a guest eats or drinks under a host's roof, and is respected until the guest leaves the host's hospitality. For either the guest or the host to attack the other is to break the guest right, and is said to invoke the wrath of both the old gods and the new. Bread and salt is such a common staple of Westerosi food that to offer it to a traveler is a sign of trust and friendship.
Source: innatthecrossroads.com
