Let's be honest: Catan does not have nearly enough narrative substance for a cookbook. So unless every dish is hexagonal in shape, this is just a random cookbook (although not necessarily bad) with the Catan name arbitrarily attached to it.

How many recipes can you get out of wheat and sheep?

Does anyone have wood-fired sheep?

Is it also bland and old-fashioned yet still somehow popular?

What the fuck is next? Catan in Space? Wait, that’s a thing? Fuck

At Gencon several years back, there was a cookie Catan event. All the tiles were decorated cookies!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

“Catan: The Official Cookbook ” includes 77 recipes inspired by the multiplayer phenomenon, dishes like Forest Dweller’s Dip, Tavern Ale Pie and Fireside Banana Boats.

It’s not just a gimmick or a gag gift by any means,” says Casie Vogel, vice president of editorial at Ulysses Press.

The recipes pay homage to the game, in which competitors try to build settlements on a fictional island using five resources: wool, grain, lumber, brick and ore.

You can whip up a batch of Manchego cheese crackers for friends as you play, or cater a bigger dinner party with the Great Hall Rack of Lamb.

Vogel — along with a recipe creator and a tester — came up with the dishes with the blessing of the game maker, and she calls the process “collaborative.” She started work in fall 2021.

The cookbook, which comes out the same month as the Catan U.S. national championships in Minnesota, reflects an aspect of the game that players enjoy — it prizes cooperation over annihilation.

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