That made my day!

Deglazed mermaid on a small cake of Sam’s Famous taters. The nice thing is you can eat these in complete confidence that the mermaids were captured without the use of nets, so no selkies were harmed in their harvesting.

Personal Pickled Pixie Pizza – the trick is to get the pickled pixies. It gives the little pizzas a tart, yet mischievous, flavor. Salted pixies may as well be sardines.

Minotaur in raspberry sauce – when pan-seared, minotaur meat has an amazing earthy flavor that, when tasted, makes you want to strip off your clothes and run wild across sunlit plains.

Shredded Sacred Cow in ground unicornmeal tortillas.

Satyr cheese on lembas.

Almond Aslan. It’s absolutely divine.

For the candy lovers, I would suggest Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans from the Harry Potter series, or any of the many delights from Willy Wonka’s amazing chocolate factory. Mmmm, blueberry pie!

I have always wanted to try lembas, the elven bread from Middle Earth, or aliantha berries from the Thomas Covenant series.

And another more recent fantasy series that comes to mind where the author featured food somewhat prominently throughout was J.V. Jones’s trilogy The Book of Words.

“Good fantasy is like good chocolate: dark, rich, and probably not good for you. But who cares, we devour it anyway.”

The other Narnian meal of note was the one that didn’t happen — the Giant’s feast which included fresh human, as a course, not amuse-bouche, though who knows what else was in that enormous cookbook.

Oz was also a favorite when I was young, and the meals I remember came from pails that grew on tress. I had to look them up: the lunch boxes — from trees with paper napkins as leaves — had a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge cake, a pickle, a piece of new cheese and an apple, each growing from a separate stem inside the box. And the dinner pail had a small tank of lemonade covered by a cup, three slices of turkey, two slices of cold tongue, some lobster salad, four slices of bread and butter, a small custard pie, an orange, nine large strawberries, and some nuts and raisins.

I wish I hadn’t written this post before dinner. My frozen pizza sounds pretty lame.

One of the Hildebrandt brothers wife has a fantasy cookbook that would probably provide us with an appropriate amuse bouche. But it’s upstairs and I’m having a pain day.

I had a dinner at Trio when Grant Achatz was still the chef there and *that* was a fantasy meal! He’s one of those molecular gastronomy people. It was the table in the kitchen and had, like 30 courses — each just a bite or two. Of things like a powder you sprinkle on your tongue that tasted just like pepperoni pizza. Or cucumber jelly as a veg.
MKK