What do Mirage’s pork chops taste like? No, that’s not an innuendo, it’s a question 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends fans have been asking themselves for years. I’m sure some people have been asking developer Respawn, too. Well, the support Legend has fi🃏nally published a cookbook, in collaboration with fellow Legend Pathfinder and IRL authors Tom Grimm and Jordan Alsaqa, so fans will have a chance to rustle up h✅is famous chops for themselves.
Like most cookbooks, the big hardback tome is split into sections based on courses. We start with breakfast, soups, and entrées, before moving onto baked goods and drinks. You may notice a few missing courses there, which is because, unlike most cookbooks, the mains are split into yet more sections based on🍷 in-universe restaurants.
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Okonkwo’s is a meat-focused establishment based on Borealis, Chickenbique (adverts for which have appeared in-game for a while now) is your KFC alternative, the unnamed ‘Street Market’ is home to all things Asian, and Indidi’s Sweets & Desserts are purported to come from a patisserie of the same name. Even the cocktails come from🍷 Mirage’s own establishment, the Paradise Lounge, where Legends are known to relax after a hard fought match.
Most dishes have a connection to the game, albei🧸t some of them are tenuous. I’m not sure why we didn’t get some Brazilian food for Loba, who instead is represented in Loba’s Rolls, which are sushi. She is referenced in the flavour text for Brazilian ♋cheese rolls, pão de queijo, but surely Valkyrie was a better pick for sushi? Perhaps the writers felt the jetpack Japanese-American was a little overrepresented in the Street Market section.
On ⭕the topic of Street Market, it’s a little disappointing to see all of the Asian recipes, from Japanese mochi, to Chinese noodles, to Thai curry lopped into one ‘street food’ section. It’s a wider industry issue not limited to video game cookbooks, but the fact that all Asian food is lumped together in a generic street food category is lazy, and doesn’t treat the cuisines with the respect they deserve.
It’s a shame, because ♛the variety of recipes in the book is great, with foods from diverse cultures represented. This marries perfectly with the diverse roster of the game itself, and recipes derived from Mad Maggie’s Māori heritage sit side by side with Seer’s Banga Soup, which hails from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
The one downside is partially my own fault: I’m a vegetarian. The vast majority of recipes are heavily meat-based, and it’s not a Ruby Tandoh-style informal cookbook where she offers alternatives to almost every ingredient in case of allergies, preferences, or affordability. Many dishes also require hyper-specific ingredients that my supermarket doesn’t stock, even if I could eat them. Anyone know where to buy eels? Narutomaki and nira aren't common even in my nearest specialist supermarket. While I could get some if I wanted, I’m not sure I’m going to buy a bottle of absinthe just to use a teaspoonful in a cocktail.
Hopefully these specificities mean the recipes are authentic, but the difficulty ranges wildly between recipes. They’re designated with ranks based on how tricky they are, but the book ranges from making pizza using pre-made dough and walking y🎐ou through the steps of a bowl of cereal with fruit on top, to julienning carrots and making your own chijmi (kind of like Korean Okonomiyaki pancakes), which feels like a big step up.
My highlight, other than Pathfinder and Mirage’s witty commentary on eac🥂h recipe, were the ‘Pas Me Dat Suga’ cookies,💎 based on Lifeline’s iconic voiceline. I bake with my daughter most weeks, who loves stirring flour and licking bowls clean at the tender age of two, and we’ve managed some pretty successful cakes so far, including an impressive Victoria Sponge for her nanny’s birthday. Cookies, however, have been our downfall. Supposedly one of the simplest things to bake, they never taste quite right.
Lifeline’s cookies are based on her voice actress Mela Lee’s family recipe, and they’re phenomenal. Formerly known as Mela’s Miracle Cookies and now given that Apex stamp, they’re simple to make but delicious. We underbaked the first batch slightly, but once I nailed my oven settings, they came out perfec🌠t. While I enjoyed making curries and mixing drinks, Mela’s family recipe has both mine and my daughter’s wholehearted approval. For a cookbook mostly aimed at giving beginners a route to cooking new cuisines, what more could you ask for?