For lovers of legends and stories throughout time, Once Upon a Kitchen celebrates all things magical. Author and top chef Leslie Bilderback has imagined more than 100 dishes for devotees of fantasy, literature, history, movies, television, science fiction, mythical creatures and fairytales to share. She draws from sources as rich and varied as Shakespeare’s plays, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Grimm’s fairy tales, Washington Irving, Lord of the Rings, the Star Wars saga, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Potterverse. Enjoy Scheherazade’s Arabic Coffee and Cardamom Cookies; a Coconut Shrimp Green Curry “Witches Brew” in honor of Macbeth; Gandalf’s Cold Chicken and Pickles; Jedi Ration Bars; Rapunzel’s Rampion Salad; Mary Poppins’s We Are Not a Codfish and Chips; and Mulan’s Dragon Fruit Pops. This is the type of book that adult fans will love to create from and that their children will enjoy with them as they grow.