{"id":37616,"date":"2022-10-27T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dinner-with-the-king-new-cookbook-features-meals-taken-from-stephen-king-stories\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T23:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:30:55","slug":"dinner-with-the-king-new-cookbook-features-meals-taken-from-stephen-king-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dinner-with-the-king-new-cookbook-features-meals-taken-from-stephen-king-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with the King: New cookbook features meals taken from Stephen King stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you spend enough time reading Stephen King\u2019s stories, you\u2019ll soon discover his characters actually eat: Not gonna lie \u2013 the fresh lobstrosities cooked over an open flame in \u201cDrawing of the Three\u201d sound pretty good.<\/p>\n

\u201cCastle Rock Kitchen,\u201d by Theresa Carle-Sanders and with a forward by King, gathers 80 meals imagined from King\u2019s Maine-centered stories and turns them into recipes you can whip up in your own kitchen.<\/p>\n

For Carle-Sanders, the melding of her love for cooking with her love of reading is an easy fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always been a reader and a cook,\u201d she said on her website. \u201cWe ate out a lot \u2013 my Dad had an appreciation for good food that was unusual in the \u201970s. His enthusiasm for food from all over the world sparked a passion in me. To this day, I spend most of my free time in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we were home, the kitchen clean and the dishes put away, Mom would put me to bed with a book. She read to me as an infant, and started me on a lifetime of travel and adventure, both on and off the pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Carle-Sanders has created a cookbook based on fiction: She has written two books inspired by Diana Gabaldon\u2019s Outlander novels \u2013 \u201cOutlander Kitchen: The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook\u201d and the follow-up \u201cOutlander Kitchen: To the New World and Back Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Buy the book!<\/h4>\n

\u201cCastle Rock Kitchen,\u201d by Theresa Carle-Sanders, with a forward by Stephen King, is available through Maria\u2019s Bookshop. For more information, visit Maria\u2019s at https:\/\/bit.ly\/3FiVXKm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She said after the second \u201cOutlander\u201d book, she wanted to write another fictional cookbook and having been a Constant Reader for more than 30 years, she knew King\u2019s body of work could fit the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cStephen King has a huge library of work, a big fandom, and I had noticed, when reading his books in the past, that he often mentions food,\u201d Carle-Sanders said in an email. \u201cI started reading his novels and short stories in the order they were published, which took me the better part of a year, reading eight hours a day, seven days a week!\u201d<\/p>\n

She said once she finished a proposal, her agent took it to King\u2019s agent, who got his approval for the project and agreed to write the foreword.<\/p>\n

Then came the task of figuring out how to condense all of King\u2019s food references into a manageable list and make cuts from there. Carle-Sanders and her editor decided to focus on King stories that take place in Maine, rather than trying to include recipes from all of his stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read on a Kindle, highlighting every mention of food as I go,\u201d she said. \u201cFrom there, I enter all of those notations into a spreadsheet, where I add, delete, and move recipes around until I have a working table of contents that is balanced in terms of ingredients, courses, and stories represented.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest challenge was leaving behind the King stories that aren\u2019t set in Maine, including \u2018The Shining,\u2019 \u2018The Stand\u2019 and his Dark Tower series,\u201d she said. \u201cThe balance to that loss is the focus on Maine; it gave me an opportunity to write a fictional and a regional cookbook.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what Carle-Sanders came up with is a deep-dive into some of King\u2019s iconic stories: Like \u201cCujo\u201d? try making her \u201cDog Days French Toast Casserole.\u201d There are \u201cHermits for the Road\u201d bars based on cookies in \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d \u2013 one of this reporter\u2019s favorite stories, as well as \u201cCrab Canap\u00e9s\u201d from \u201cPet Sematary\u201d (my all-time favorite).<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re not a huge Stephen King fan but like to cook \u2013 or, conversely, you are a huge Stephen King fan would could take or leave the culinary arts, Carle-Sanders said either way, this book has something for you.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recipes range from easy to more advanced, and you\u2019ll find a wonderful collection of Maine comfort food. And those non-fans may find themselves drawn into one of the excerpts above a recipe, wondering what that story is all about,\u201d she said in the email. \u201cOn the other hand, Castle Rock Kitchen also makes a great gift for the Stephen King fan who doesn\u2019t necessarily like to cook. It\u2019s a cookbook you can get lost in, and read cover to cover. The food, photos, and excerpts take you on a deep dive into Stephen King\u2019s Maine, and give you a real taste of the author\u2019s home state.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if she could sit down to a meal from any book, Carle-Sanders said she\u2019d go with \u201c11\/22\/63.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019d like to be at the diner on Highway 1 South, where Jake from 11\/22\/63 stops for dinner and order\/s the Blue Plate Special,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is back before fast food, when Mom\u2019s Home Cooking was what was on offer, and the special included a fruit cup to start, a filling main meal, and pie \u00e0 la mode for dessert, all for the grand price of eighty cents. Those were the days!\u201d<\/p>\n

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