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    The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook: (Pop Culture Cookbook, Demogorgon, Hellfire Club)
    The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook: (Pop Culture Cookbook, Demogorgon, Hellfire Club)
    The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook: (Pop Culture Cookbook, Demogorgon, Hellfire Club)
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    The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook: (Pop Culture Cookbook, Demogorgon, Hellfire Club)

    By Tom Grimm

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    Eat your way out of the Upside Down with this cookbook inspired by the world of Stranger Things. From comfort food straight from Mrs. Wheeler’s table to fast food from the Starcourt Mall food court, this cookbook features all kinds of recipes that would fit right into both dimensions of 1980s Hawkins, Indiana.

    Open a portal to Hawkins, Indiana, with this totally rad cookbook inspired by food Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Max, Will, and Eleven would have eaten in 1980s Indiana. Like a ravenous Demogorgon, you can eat and drink your way out of the Upside Down from breakfast to happy hour, consuming hearty family dinners from the Wheeler's family kitchen or cheap eats made by Jim Hopper himself. Try Dr. Alexie’s Favorite Slushie and dig into creepy Upside Down twists on classic recipes like Demogorgonzola, Stranger Wings, Upside Down Burger, and more! With full-color photography and enough recipes to fuel your own Hellfire Club, this is the perfect cookbook for Stranger Things fans.

    60+ RECIPES TO TAKE YOU FROM BREAKFAST TO HAPPY HOUR: This cookbook will make you want to spend a whole day with the Party—start with Eleven’s favorite waffle treats and wind down with a Cuba Libre or mocktail (your choice!)

    BACK TO THE 1980s: Dine on homemade comfort food, twists on Hopper’s favorite microwaveable meals, and classic food court eats
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReel Ink Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2022
    ISBN9781958862094
    The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook: (Pop Culture Cookbook, Demogorgon, Hellfire Club)
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    Tom Grimm

    Tom Grimm, born in 1972, apprenticed as a bookseller and has been working ever since as an author, translator, screenwriter, journalist, editor, and producer for a number of international publishers. Alongside his enthusiasm for literature, movies, and video games, he especially enjoys amusement parks, travel, listening to Rammstein, good food, bad jokes, and firing up the grill year-round. He is a passionate amateur cook, although not much of a baker. Even so, he has managed to win the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and other distinctions for his work. Tom lives with his family, a literal pride of cats, and several life-size images of Batman, Kung Fu Panda, Rayman, and Thrall the Orc. He lives and works in a small town in the west of Germany that is really and truly nothing to write home about. (Not kidding. Really.)

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      The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook - Tom Grimm

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      The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook

      60+ Recipes from Hawkins, Indiana and the Upside Down

      Tom Grimm

      The Unofficial Stranger Things Cookbook, by Tom Grimm, Reel Ink Press

      CONTENTS

      STRANGER THOUGHTS

      BREAKFAST

      Hopper’s Doughnuts

      Fried Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

      Billy’s Power Muesli

      French Toast Jonathan Style

      Blueberry Pancakes

      Hopper’s Dream Coffee

      Spicy Scrambled Eggs

      SNACKS & FAST FOOD

      Demogorgonzola

      Hopper’s Bacon and Egg Sandwich

      Kentucky-Style Fried Chicken

      Original Pork Rinds

      Stranger Currywurst

      Mini Corn Dogs

      Demogorgon Figs

      Dustin’s Bologna Sandwich

      Starcourt Mall Hot Dog

      Potato Chips and Salsa

      Brown Bag Turkey Sandwich

      Stranger Wings

      SIDE DISHES & ENTRÉES

      Pumpkin Roll

      Hopper’s Mixed Vegetables

      Colorful Coleslaw

      Mrs. Wheeler’s Dinner Rolls

      Demogorgon Pizza

      Joyce’s Vegetable Lasagna

      Hopper’s Beer Can Chicken

      Mrs. Wheeler’s Condolence Casserole

      Mrs. Wheeler’s Meatloaf

      Stranger Turkey

      Upside Down Burger

      Chicken and Tater Tots

      Fiery Pepperoni Pizza

      DESSERTS

      Chocolate Pudding

      Strawberry Demogorgon

      Ahoy Surprise

      Exploded Rat

      Vanilla and Caramel Ice Cream

      Demogorgon Tartlets

      Chocolate Pudding with Chocolate Candies

      SWEETS

      Hopper’s Waffle Extravaganza

      Quark Fritters

      Demogorgon Cake

      Strawberry Shortcake Waffles

      Peanut Bar

      Mrs. Wheeler’s Christmas Cake

      Deep-Fried Twinkies

      D’Artagnan’s Favorite Nougat

      Waffle Pops

      Strawberry Cookies

      Stranger Waffles

      Homemade Trail Mix

      Dart’s Tart

      Hellfire Two-Tone Popcorn

      Bananas Foster Waffles

      DRINKS

      Cuba Libre

      Ahoy Summer Slushy

      The Upside Down

      Ahoy Iced Coffee Float

      Benny’s Burgers Iced Tea

      Eleven’s Mocktail

      Classic Strawberry Milkshake

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

      FOR OSKAR Ossi BÖHM, THE FATHER I NEVER HAD.

      From now on, God above no longer has the last word!

      STRANGER THOUGHTS

      For someone like me who grew up reading Stephen King books, Stranger Things is a godsend––a gift I’d been hoping so long to receive that I didn’t think it would ever happen.

      Since I began my reading career in the mid-1980s (the older ones among you will remember), mainly with comics and illustrated magazines, Stephen King’s Firestarter was the first real novel I ever read. I must have been twelve or thirteen at the time. And while that book can’t be considered one of King’s greatest achievements, the parallels to Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers’ terrific Netflix series, are unmistakable; after all, both are about a girl with special powers who escapes from a U.S. government research facility. The resemblance is quite striking.

      Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of Stranger Things, have also drawn from other early works by the King of Horror, such as his masterpiece It. Apart from the fact that both stories are set in small-town America, everything revolves around a group of unpopular, nerdy, but good-hearted boys who are confronted with supernatural events and make the acquaintance of a mysterious girl who really gets their hormones going. But that’s not all: The fearless Bob Newby, the superhero from the second season of Stranger Things and boyfriend of Joyce Byers, explained that he had grown up in Maine, where most of King’s stories are set. This suggests that the creepy clown Bob encountered at the fair as a child that gave him nightmares for years might have been the killer clown Pennywise. Other scenes in Stranger Things, such as the different times the kids walk along the railroad tracks, seem to be taken straight from King’s novella The Body or Rob Reiner’s sensitive film adaptation Stand by Me. And when Billy Hargrove rams his head through the door to grab Max in season three, the only thing missing are Jack Nicholson’s chilling words in The Shining, Here’s Johnny!

      In other words, Stranger Things captures the spirit of Stephen King’s work a thousand times better than the many official King adaptations churned out for the uninitiated. And I am sincerely glad that this old guy is still around to experience it.

      I grew up in a time when there were no cell phones, no Internet, and no Netflix. When I was young, we had only three TV channels, and you either watched what was on or rented a movie from a video store. Though it seems hard to believe now, you couldn’t just watch what you felt like at the push of a button. Stranger Things takes me back to that time of my life in many ways, albeit with two not insignificant differences. First: There were no monsters in my hometown. And second: My meals were considerably more modest than the hearty, all-American fare you find in Hawkins, Indiana.

      The latter was largely due to the fact that my mother was plainly the world’s worst cook. For instance, she was firmly convinced that it was enough to simply throw Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, or asparagus into warm water and then serve them up twenty minutes later in exactly the same way, without salt, without sauce, and with overly mushy, unseasoned potatoes that I wouldn’t even feed to a pig. It would be a blessing for my brother and me to come home from school and find delicious ravioli from a can, nothing home-cooked. And whenever there was a special occasion to have takeout roast chicken, it was like Christmas and Easter had come at once. Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead, but the facts are the facts. And the truth is that my mother was no Mrs. Wheeler. She didn’t spend the whole day in the kitchen to lovingly serve up hearty casseroles, delicious pies, and succulent roasts to her loved ones. What’s more, there was nothing like Starcourt Mall in our area, where you could get burgers, fried chicken, or milkshakes in an ultra-trendy, food court for cheap. So I can justifiably say that I wasn’t all that into the culinary arts when I was younger.

      Although that changed later, it didn’t make me a gourmet; nor did I become a second Paul Bocuse. But that suits me just fine as the food culture in Stranger Things is as firmly rooted in the 1980s as everything else in the series. It’s no coincidence that most of the dishes in this book are so easy to make that even Dustin could pull it off, blindfolded, while hitting on Suzie (or trying to).

      Cooking needn’t be complicated, and these

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