Hunger Games Themed Food: The Districts vs. the Capitol
Aloha! So it's the end of October, and my kitchen counter has turned into Panem. There's a bowl of bread dough I'm not allowed to touch until morning. There's a pot of lamb stew on the back of the stove, a bag of prunes I'm calling "dried plums" from now on, and a stack of index cards with a district number on each one. Thirteen cards. I counted twice! District 13 gets a card too, because somebody would ask. ((You KNOW they would.)) Here's why I love cooking from these books: they're about hunger. Suzanne Collins puts food on almost every page. In District 12, Katniss hunts squirrels and rabbits outside the fence so her family can eat, and the Seam gets by on flat, dense loaves of ration grain. Then she gets on the train to the Capitol, and the food just... doesn't stop. Lamb stew. Hot chocolate. Iced cakes. A party where the guests drink something pink so they can throw up and keep eating. ((Gross. Also the whole point.)) To me that's Pa...
