Everyone has their own reasons for picking up a ladle: Overwatch Cookbook Review friv game

A new work by Chelsea Monroe-Kassel, published by Bombora, has arrived, dedicated to the cooking of the youngest of the Friv2Online Games Studio site. Let's try cooking and share our impressions of the official Overwatch recipe book.

Monroe-Kassel is one of today's most famous food columnists, or, as they are known today, "food bloggers". Chelsea is young, ambitious and known for her sincere love of science fiction, history, painting, photography and of course food.

In the literary, geeky and gaming communities, Chelsea first became famous as a co-author of the official Game of Thrones cookbook, A Feast of Ice and Fire, and then as the author of two licensed recipe books from the World of Warcraft universe, a wonderful cookbook from The Elder universe. Scrolls and Hearthstone Innkeeper's Pocket Book.

As expected, Bombora became the localizer and publisher of Chelsea's works on game franchises in Russia, which at least immediately removes questions about the quality of the translation of the Overwatch recipe book. Its text is brilliantly adapted to take into account all the subtleties of the official localization of Blizzard's hero shooter. One gets the impression that this is an absolutely canonical work, and all the dishes presented in it, all the described recipes simply have to be hidden somewhere in the friv game logs.

Like previous Bombora cooking and gaming releases, Overwatch's Official Cookbook has a bright, presentable cover with recognizable fonts, a distinctive color scheme, and the Peacekeeper emblem. Her place is in the showcase with gift literature.

The book fits perfectly anywhere. The endpapers on both sides are printed with official Overwatch art. It has a hard cover with a well-glued block of thick, opaque and all-over-colored pages that won't get wet with a few drops of water.

After a short, one-page introduction, readers are taken on a gastronomic tour of parts of the world that are represented by maps from the original friv game. If the content of standard cookbooks is usually made up of sections with types of dishes, then the work of Chelsea Monroe-Kassel is divided into the cuisines of America, Africa, Europe, Australia, Asia, and even the Moon.

Countries and colonies on the Sun's satellite are represented by their natives or inhabitants - agents of Overwatch and Blackwatch. Each has from three to four recipes of various types: from desserts and strong drinks to national dishes from different cuisines of the world.

To make it easier for readers to choose the ingredients, the author has simplified the most exotic dishes. Indeed, most of the recipes are 90% of publicly available products, and the rest can be replaced with something similar or ordered online.

For example, alcoholic cocktails sometimes include specific drinks, such as Tripple-Sec liqueur or Angostura bitters, and some dishes will require products that are not found in every supermarket, such as enoki mushrooms, California Monterrey Jack cheese, or even pickled sakura leaves.

Each recipe in the book is accompanied by a mouth-watering full-page author's photograph and a short, lore-filled description that connects the dish to the character representing it. Recipes are assigned types (hearty, appetizer, drink, festive), cooking time, number of servings and diet (gluten-free, vegetarian).

The page on the left contains a detailed list of all the necessary ingredients, and without any inaccuracies, such as “a pinch of salt” or “sugar for the eye”, and next to it is a step-by-step guide consisting of several points (from a couple to seven to eight, depending on the complexity of the recipe). ).

It is noteworthy that most of the dishes fit very organically into the character of the agents: McCree and Ash represent the cuisine of the US Southwest, Lucio - appetizers with a Brazilian flavor, Torbjorn and Brigitte introduce readers to Swedish dishes, Zarya makes dumplings, and cute Bastion will teach you how to make beautiful and a nutritious treat for birds.

Taking the opportunity, I decided to cook something myself, and the first experiment was jolof according to the Doomfist family recipe. This is a simple rice dish popular among residents of many West African countries. There are dozens of variants of jolof, which in the homeland of Akanda are traditionally prepared both on holidays and on ordinary days.

I melted a little butter in a pan with vegetable oil and fried the diced chicken breast, seasoning it with ground ginger, paprika, curry powder and thyme. Then he transferred the chicken to a saucepan, added the tomatoes, garlic, onions and bell peppers, chopped in a blender, and then a portion of rice, tomato paste and several cups of chicken broth.

Jolof cooked for about half an hour, filling the kitchen with the aromas of stewed vegetables and spices. The dish came out hearty and extremely spicy, and it took less than an hour to cook in total. I don’t know how much a big Akande can eat at a time, but I got about five or six solid servings.

Then I tried D. Va 's sweet nut-filled buns. Hotteok is a popular type of street food similar to our pancakes, which is usually sold in Korea in winter. Instead of traditional rice flour, Hannah Song suggested using yeast dough and filling with peanuts and honey.

I kneaded some sticky dough out of milk, flour, sugar and yeast and let it sit for about an hour. Then he divided the dough into six cakes, put a filling of sugar, ground cinnamon, honey and pre-fried, crushed peanuts in the center of each, pinched the edges and flattened the hottoki again in a frying pan heated with plenty of vegetable oil.

After five minutes of frying on each side, the hottoks were ready to eat. Lush pies with hot, sweet filling turned out to be an amazing delicacy for breakfast. One can only guess how, with such a diet, D.Va manages to maintain an ideal figure.

And these are Shuku-Shuku balls, also prepared according to the Doomfist recipe. Everything is very simple here: coconut flakes are mixed with sugar, baking powder and egg yolks, then turned into balls and baked in the oven for about 20 minutes. Crispy, easy-to-make yummy will come in handy when you want something sweet.

The official Overwatch recipe book contains over eight dozen recipes from a wide variety of cuisines. Most of the dishes are generally simple to prepare, but unusual in execution. Even the method of preparing Borsch from Zarya here does not quite correspond to ours.

The new work of Chelsea Monroe-Kassel will be a great gift for a fan of hanging out in the kitchen, and thanks to the detailed, step-by-step descriptions and available ingredients, the book can be recommended even to those gamers who have not yet succeeded in the culinary craft, but would really like to try.