To speak to a Hobbit about food, is to talk to someone about something they love. Seldom do we 'big folk', in our hum-drum, mundane, rushed and worried lives, apply the same feelings to anything (or sometimes anyone!) as a Hobbit does to their food. It is not surprising that manu of us who value food as much as hobbits do, have sometimes thought that a Hobbit cookbook would be a handy item to have in the kitchen.

it did not surprise me much to read that in the fall of 2012 we will see the publication of A Hobbit's Cookbook, nor did it surprise me in 2002 that someone wrote Regional Cooking from Middle-earth: Recipes of the Third Age. Books like these always tend to be published around the time another book Tolkien is adapted for the big screen. Still I'm not sad about it, since I love food and somehow cooking books make ideal gifts. I just hope this book will bring us some fresh ideas and is not just meant to cash in on the Hobbit movie hype.

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