Destiny 2 wants to conquer your kitchens with an official cookbook. MeinMMO author Philipp Hansen has embarked on a culinary journey for you and presents what the Guardian of the world eats.
We fully immerse ourselves in our favorite games and can hardly get enough of the virtual worlds that captivate us for hundreds of hours. This love often breaks the fourth wall. Decorating our spaces with characters or faithful replicas of video game weapons is now a routine.
However, Destiny 2 has now taken me from the living room into the kitchen. Because today the official cookbook for the game is available. For me, that’s a reason to be happy, as I have spent at least as many hours in the kitchen as I have raiding or in PvP combined.
Hopefully, it goes better than with the last culinary quest:
Can the Destiny cookbook delight my palate?
Does a cookbook fit Destiny 2? Last year, MeinMMO wondered, does a cookbook even fit Destiny? The answer was surprisingly: Yes!
- During the Christmas event, the Guardians delight in-game NPCs with homemade cookies
- In memory of the fallen hero Cayde-6, we still carry a noodle soup coupon in our inventory
- Raisins and celery aren’t to everyone’s taste, but they’re cult items from Destiny
I was able to take a look at the official Destiny cookbook in advance and want to share my delicious discoveries with you.
This is how the cookbook is structured: While browsing the book, it immediately became clear that author Victoria Rosenthal does not just randomly compile recipes and a few kitchen tips.
The dishes are embedded in the story of Destiny and connect the lore of the most popular NPCs like Cayde, Osiris, and the shady Drifter in a tasty way. We learn more about Cayde’s craving for ramen and how other characters cope with the NPC’s death.
The book is written from Eva Levante’s perspective, who often serves as an event NPC in-game and spreads a friendly grandmother-like atmosphere among the NPCs and Guardians.
Eva then tries either to seduce the well-known Destiny characters with their favorite dishes or to stay true to her nature. The grim Drifter, for example, gets pyramid-shaped Gambit particles made of dark chocolate – a funny idea. However, most of the recipes I could find were less outlandish.
As a cookbook should, before each dish, some important info is presented in a Destiny-style:
- What is the difficulty level of the dish?
- Preparation and cooking time
- What yield awaits – How many Guardians will be satisfied?
- Allergy and intolerance information will also be provided
- The individual components are separately considered with ingredients list and preparation instructions
The cookbook is currently 192 pages thick and is only available in English at this time. It is unclear whether it will also be released in German soon. You can purchase it in regular stores or in the Bungie Store (EU).
How does it taste to me? The layout and example photos make my mouth water. The recipes are genuinely international but mostly well and credibly assigned to a Destiny character.
- Ikora’s dishes all have a passionate touch of Mediterranean cuisine or remind with couscous and lamb of hot summers in Morocco. Just like we know the fiery lady who stirred things up in the Crucible in her wild youth.
I found it particularly interesting that not only standard dishes made it into the cookbook, which were simply garnished with a “Destiny name”.
Especially the Vietnamese-inspired Bánh-Mì burger of the Drifter makes my stomach growl with joy. There is hardly anything better than grilling an exotic burger in the summer or treating myself from the trendy burger joint I trust.
A few of these token dishes have still made their way into the cookbook: One cocktail is named “Wavesplitter” (like the exotic Wavesplitter) and isn’t even purple.
Since we’re already looking for faults, I want to criticize that I would have preferred more outlandish recipes like the dark chocolate particles. Sure, Guardians don’t eat weapons or live in houses made of gingerbread, but a few more ideas like that would have been nice for me.
What do you think of such a cookbook? Do you want to emulate your Guardian in the kitchen too, or does Destiny end for you on the screen?
