Eat Your Games: Elder Scrolls Online’s Jewels of Misrule

Eat Your Games: Elder Scrolls Online’s Jewels of Misrule

This post includes a recipe at the end. But what’s an internet recipe without a lengthy headnote to scroll through? And how often do recipe headnotes include a treatise on the function of food in the Elder Scrolls universe? (more…)

Eat Your Games: Going Under’s Jobwich

Eat Your Games: Going Under’s Jobwich

As someone who has been working in some capacity for well over a decade, there’s little to unite the various jobs—food service, floral design, administrative—I’ve held over the years.

Except one thing: The Sandwich of Desperation. (more…)

Eat Your Games: Skull King’s Swashbucklin’ Blackberry Pie

Eat Your Games: Skull King’s Swashbucklin’ Blackberry Pie

I grew up in the Midwest, playing cards. When I was a kid, my family would play kid-friendly games like Go Fish and Old Maid—and as we grew older, we transitioned to more strategic games like Hearts and Gin Rummy. In high school, at lunch my friends and I would play ERS and Bullshit. Today, my favorite card games are Euchre and 500, two fairly complicated trick-taking games that no one in Pittsburgh will play with me, much to my lament.

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Eat Your Games: Breath of the Wild’s Hot Buttered Apples

Eat Your Games: Breath of the Wild’s Hot Buttered Apples



Can you imagine being a farmhand at a modest Hyrulian stable, when suddenly Link flies in on his paraglider, lands next to your campfire, cooks for 29 hours without sleeping and then teleports away in a puff of neon blue smoke? What about being a bandit in a fight with the hero of Hyrule himself, and just when you feel like you have him on the defensive, he stuffs 17 apples and an entire raw chicken into his face at an unnatural speed? Such is life for background characters in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. (more…)