Fictional Food Hit List: A Game of Thrones

Season 2 of HBO’s Game of Thrones premieres this Sunday and so to get the ball rolling on my hit lists for this series, here’s the Fictional Food Hit List for book 1: A Game of Thrones. I eliminated some duplicates and split some of the dishes by courses, keeping most basic foods together as special meals like Catelyn’s breakfast after the attack to come up with 75 food and drink references.

1. Roasted onions and gravy on trenchers
2. Bread, two little fish, black bacon, and dark beer
3. Honey duck and orange snap peppers
4. Roasted joints of meat
5. Thick black sausages
6. Dothraki blood pies
7. Fruits and sweetgrass stews
8. Delicate pastries from Pentos
9. Honeyed wine
10. Squirrel stew with black bread and hard cheese
11. 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
12. Bread and honey breakfast
13. Lemon cakes and tea
14. Mutton stew with black bread
15. Raw crab
16. Garlic and herb roasted ribs
17. Scones
18. Fruit, cheese, fry bread, honeyed wine
19. Iced milk, sweetened with honey
20. Pork pie
21. Blueberry tarts
22. Hot cider
23. Mulled wine
24. Sweet cakes soaked with honey
25. Meat skewers with onions, fire peppers, and mushrooms with trenchers and beer
26. Roast fowl with wine
27. Roasted aurochs with sweetgrass, strawberries, and bread
28. Thick soup of barley and venison
29. Sweetgrass salad
30. Spinach and plum salad with crushed nuts
31. Snails in honey and garlic
32. River trout baked in clay
33. Sweetbreads
34. Pigeon pie
35. Apples baked with cinnamon
36. Sausages with garlic and pepper
37. Black bread, boiled goose eggs, and fish fried up with onions and bacon
38. Lamprey pie and roast suckling pig
39. Wine and roast capon
40. Skewers of meat and onions – Meat and Onion Skewers from the Eyrie, July 26, 2011
41. Roast goat with sweetgrass and firepods, basted with honey
42. Boiled beans
43. Leg of lamb, peas and onions, buttered bread, and mulled wine
44. Rack of lamb with garlic and herbs with buttered turnips
45. Spinach salad
46. Chickpea salad
47. Turnip greens salad
48. Iced blueberries and sweet cream
49. Salt beef, hard cheese, stale bread
50. Roasted goat
51. Roasted chicken and wine
52. Cold strawberry pie
53. Porridge and blood oranges
54. Clotted mare’s milk
55. Roasted boar with apple
56. Applecakes and blood sausage
57. Pickled fish
58. Hard cheese, fresh-baked bread, and milk
59. Roast chicken and greens
60. Beef and barley stew
61. Venison stew with barley, onion, and carrot with bread
62. Tree eggs, locust pie, and green noodles
63. Honeyfingers
64. Horsemeat or pork sausages with garlic, onions, and hot peppers
65. Ale and cheese
66. Veined white cheese and fruit
67. Boiled mutton
68. Suckling pig
69. Garlic sausage
70. Roasted ox
71. Blueberry, lemon, and apricot tarts
72. Bowl o’ brown – Flea Bottom Bowl o’ Brown, June 20, 2011
73. Buttermilk and sweet biscuits
74. Biscuit, piece of cheese, withered apple, salt beef, and bacon
75. Boiled eggs, fried bread, ham steak, and dried plums