The Best Pop Culture Cookbooks to Gift Mom This Mother’s Day: ‘Gilmore Girls,’ ‘Sopranos,’ ‘Star Trek’ and More
variety.comAnna Tingley The best shows and movies immerse viewers so convincingly into their respective universes that even the most mundane activities or objects can be seen as fixtures of the show, given a whole new meaning when interacted with in the real world.One of the most pervasive of these fixtures?
Food.Take Bobby Bacala’s Baked Ziti in “The Sopranos,” the one left in the freezer for months after his wife dies, that he can’t bring himself to eat until Janice practically force feeds it to him through his grief and tears.
Or, a few hundred miles north in Stars Hallow, where you can hear the rapid-fire dialogue of the “Gilmore Girls,” fueled by their never-ending supply of black drip coffee from Luke’s Diner.
And, of course, the fantastical foods, the ones imagined for imaginary worlds, like Turkish delight in “Narnia” and Hogwart’s famous Butterbeer in “Harry Potter” It makes sense, then, that there is an endlessly growing list of cookbooks inspired by T.V shows and movies, featuring real-life recipes from the show or those that chefs can only imagine some of the characters might make if they existed off the screen.
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