Chelsea Monroe Castle is a chef and Vermont, and she's a big fan of Game of Thrones,

and the books they're based on are sung by Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.

And back in 2011, she starred a blog called The Inn of the Crossroads, which had recipes

she created based on the foods from Game of Thrones.

Some of the foods are broken down by different regions, the land of Westeros.

Some of the foods had symbolic meaning for characters, like lemon cakes, which were important

to Sansa Stark.

Should we have some lemon cakes?

Lemon cakes, my favorite.

So we've been to a movie.

You know, Sansa's love of lemon cakes early in the series sort of represents her sort

of sweet childish view of the world.

And then, you know, later on, there are no more lemon cakes, and there are no more

sort of fairy tales, and she's been sort of become jaded about the world and sees it

for what it really is.

And I had written George Martin to, you know, say we're doing this blog.

Thank you so much for your books.

We really love them.

And sort of tongue in cheek said, if you ever want to do a cookbook, think of us.

And was shocked when he not only wrote back, but said he would mention it to the publishers.

Now, beyond her Game of Thrones cookbook, she's also written a cookbook for Lord the Rings

and the video game, World of Warcraft.

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