The Absurdly Popular Elder Scrolls Cookbook Gets A Sequel Next Month

The long wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 will continue until at least 2026, but at least you can prepare for your next adventure by mastering culinary arts with The Elder Scrolls: Tastes and Tales of Tamriel. Now available to preorder for $35 at Amazon ahead of its September 17 release date, this arcane cookbook contains over 60 recipes as well as accompanying details, illustrations, and photographs. It sounds like a lovely book, and if it’s as awesome as the first Elder Scrolls cookbook, it could be quite popular. It also includes a travelogue with background details about the origin of each dish, exclusive illustrations, and original photography.

The hardcover book is a sequel to the wildly popular 2019 Elder Scrolls cookbook. Volume I wasn’t just “popular for a gaming cookbook” either; it has more customer reviews on Amazon than possibly any other gaming book. It has garnered over 13,000 Amazon reviews with a 4.9/5-star average. Absurd. If you spend some time looking at gaming books on Amazon–art books, encyclopedias, cookbooks, etc.–you will quickly notice that the vast majority of titles come nowhere close to those numbers. Even The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, which was published in 2013, is still shy of 11,000 reviews (the Zelda Encylopedia is around 9,000). We couldn’t find any books centered on video games that generated as much active customer interest as the Elder Scrolls cookbook.

As it turns out, there are plenty of people out there who love talking about Apple-Cabbage Stew, Sunlight Souffle, and Sweetroll dishes inspired by the world of Tamriel. And fans can soon add more Elder Scrolls dishes to their dinner party menu with the help of The Elder Scrolls: Tastes and Tales of Tamriel (otherwise known as The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook Vol. 2).

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For the second outing into the mess halls of The Elder Scrolls, this new volume comes with over 60 recipes for snacks, appetizers, drinks, and full meals. The lands of Tamriel inspire each dish, and the recipes are accompanied by photographs so that you can see what each creation is supposed to look like.

As the title suggests, the 208-page book features more than just recipes. An included travelogue will provide background details and origin stories for the dishes as well as exclusive illustrations. So even if you aren’t much of a cook, the lore aspects may interest big Elder Scrolls fans regardless.

If you prefer ebooks, the Kindle version of The Elder Scrolls: Tastes and Tales of Tamriel is up for preorder for only $16.

For more Elder Scrolls reading, you should also check out the gorgeous three-volume bundle The Skyrim Library for 50% off. Lavishly illustrated and collected inside a decorative slipcase, the trio of Skyrim lore books offer deep dives into factions, landscapes, creatures, heroes, dragons, and more. Normally $110, The Skyrim Library is available for just $56.43. You can also get The Elder Scrolls Online: Tales of Tamriel Box Set for $40 (was $70).

If the Elder Scrolls cookbooks above awaken a hunger in you for more video game-themed meals, you’re in luck as this has become a surprisingly crowded category that hasn’t yet been overrun with low-effort AI-generated content. There are official cookbooks out there for a wide range of games, including Diablo, Stardew Valley, and even Five Nights at Freddy’s. There’s also a Horizon cookbook, but disappointingly, it doesn’t come with voice clips of Aloy giving you heavy-handed hints about how to use the recipes contained within.

If you’re looking forward to Dragon Age: The Veilguard, an official cookbook titled Taste of Thedas released in 2023. You can pick it up for $26 (was $35).

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