The Video Game Chef: 75 Iconic Foods from Pac-Man to Elden Ring

Bring your favorite video game foods to life--spanning the ’80s to present day--with easy recipes for game nights, themed parties, and just for fun!

If you’ve ever stopped in the middle of a quest because the on-screen food looked too good to be true, prepare yourself--they’re not just pixels anymore. In The Video Game Chef, Cassandra Reeder (aka the Geeky Chef) has perfectly re-created favorite health boosts, level-ups, cooking challenges, and more, compiling 76 recipes from popular and cult video games from the 1980s to the present day for gamers of all ages, including:

• The Legend of Zelda’s Red Potion
• Streets of Rage 2’s Trash Can Chicken
• Resident Evil’s Jill Sandwich
• Silent Hill 2’s Butter Cake
• World of Warcraft’s Smoked Desert Dumplings
• Cooking Mama’s Spaghetti Neapolitan
• Minecraft’s Suspicious Stew
• Final Fantasy XV’s Kenny’s Original Recipe
• Genshin Impact’s Sticky Honey Roast
• And much more!

Cassandra Reeder is an avid home cook and lifetime geek. For over a decade, she has been helping other geeks and nerds all over the world make their fictional food fantasies come true at geekychef.com. Cassandra extended this mission as the author of the Geeky Chef cookbook series, which includes: The Geeky Chef Cookbook, The Geeky Chef Strikes Back, The Geeky Chef Drinks, and The Geeky Bartender Drinks. She is also the author of The Unofficial Princess Bride Cookbook. Cassandra currently lives in Portland, Oregon.