The Final White Walker

An Epic TV Drama Calls for Dragon-Size Dinner Parties!

Be very afraid. Be very thirsty.

House of the Dragon, Season Deux, is beginning this week and we can only hope the wickedness and action ante up!

One of the great pleasures of George R.R. Martin’s books and television adaptions, is how they pay attention to the sustenance, the banquets, and batshit consequences of lavish hospitality.

Martin himself is a gastronome, down to the precise historical detail. He gave his blessing to a cookbook, A Feast of Ice and Fire, which is top-notch.

Want to learn a little of the medieval cooking lifestyle? I’ve made at least a dozen of the book’s recipes, and produced dinners we’ll never forget. The ingredients are simple: a hunk of meat, good bread, vegetables both root and leaf, and fruit.

Yes, we airbrushed “meringue dragons.” That was the pinnacle of our madness, but then I’m married to a former pastry chef. Our Sunday dinner parties got so over the top, that even the horrible GoT finale could not spoil our good time.