There are also recipes for beans on toast and Jaffa Cakes, presumably for when you can’t get to the shops but have some cannellini and gelatin lying around. Representing England we have fish and chips, sausage and mash and chicken tikka masala.
There’s focaccia from Italy, Japanese okonomiyaki, jollof from Ghana, and Nepalese momos. Instead, much like Lara herself, the book flits around the world helping itself to cultural treasures from different countries. The recipes are solid but unlikely to blow the minds of foodies, who probably already have a recipe for tomato soup, or a tin opener Based on the later games’ Bear Grylls-style survivalist tone, you might have expected recipes for squirrel lasagne and urine soup. This is food you want to eat, which is a relief. The food is the star – Lara doesn’t even feature on the cover – and the many full-page photographs of the dishes inside are beautifully styled.
The book is a glossy, well-produced tome, as well it might be with a cover price of £22.99.
Photograph: Titan BooksĪll of which makes the release of a Tomb Raider cookbook seem a bit odd, though admittedly, the Lara-related merchandise that’s been launched in the last two and a half decades includes everything from shower curtains and toothbrushes to fizzy pop, postage stamps and pants. Tomb Raider: the Official Cookbook and Travel Guide by Tara Theoharis and Sebastian Haley.
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