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A collection of more than 40 recipes, introduced by characters from the television science-fiction series, "Babylon 5". The recipes are accompanied by information on the production, importing, black-market trading and dangers of different foodstuffs in the 22nd century.
- Sales Rank: #2294388 in Books
- Published on: 1998-06-19
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.69" h x .39" w x 7.44" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A delightful revisit to the show
By Alicia Sorban
Never knew this existed...a fun read and some fascinating facts. If you are a B5 fan, this is a real treat. I've quoted the spoo and flarn lines from the show to a few folk.
65 of 65 people found the following review helpful.
The Real Story Behind the Cookbook
By Stephen C. Smith
Wow, I'm amazed to find a listing ... I was the free-lance writer hired to write the book. Contrary to what I've read here and elsewhere, I'm definitely not British. But I did watch a lot of Monty Python to get the attitude for the fictional author, Emerson Briggs-Wallace, who is very loosely based on John Cleese's Basil Fawlty character.
Here's how the idea for the book came up ... The folks in WB Licensing were sitting around trying to come up with ideas for B5-related products to license, as B5 was taking off in the ratings and becoming somewhat of a hot property. They'd recently licensed a cookbook based on "Friends," so someone jokingly added a B5 cookbook to their list of ideas.
To their shock and horror, someone actually showed an interest, a U.K. publisher called Boxtree.
I'd written for other B5 licensees, and had a good working relationship with B5 creator Joe Straczynski, so the Licensing folk gave me a call to ask if I could write it.
"The only way it will work," I said, "is if we go over the top."
While I knew B5, I didn't know squat about cooking. WB hired a "food consultant" who designs recipes for food chains. She knew cooking, but didn't know squat about B5.
So we began by my going through all the aired episodes to date. I compiled a clip video with any scenes I could find showing or referring to food, e.g. the infamous flarn dinner prepared by Lennier for Sheridan and Delenn, and Garibaldi talking about his pop's bagna cauda. I gave her the dishes, both human and alien, to concoct, while I went off to write the rest of the book.
I decided that this book was to be firmly rooted in the B5 universe. I chose late third season, in the lull before the alliance defeats the Shadows who then send Anne Sheridan to B5. (You might recall the recently enlightened G'Kar was a bit loopy around that time, so I wrote him that way.)
We'd seen Fresh Air, the true five-star restaurant at the end of the universe, so I came up with the idea of Emerson Briggs-Wallace, a rather arrogant, pompous gossipmonger who owned the joint. (As I said, he's loosely based on Basil Fawlty.) Viewing himself as a man of importance on the station yet clueless that he's generally disliked by the command staff, he approaches Sheridan with the idea for the cookbook, who as a practical joke sends him off to see Ivanova and the other characters in the book. (The joke is lost on poor Emerson, but the others suspect they've been set up.)
If you pay close attention, you'll find some cross-references in the book. For example, G'Kar quotes a "wise Human who said: Stuff it." If you look at Garibaldi's recipe for Cannelloni, he writes, "Just prepare your filling, and stuff it."
When the recipes came back, I came up with alien names for some of the ingredients. If you look throughout the book, you'll find the alien names are totally consistent. Beeba (olive) oil is beeba (olive) oil anywhere it's listed as an ingredient.
The food consultant worked with WB Licensing to take the photos of the prepared dishes. I helped pull the slides and screen-grabs taken from the episodes you see in the book.
Is the book canon? Obviously, anything that came from the show is canon. But the stuff I made up? If you watch the fifth season episode "A View from the Gallery," there's a scene where the maintenance workers Bo and Mac are waiting out an alien attack in a shelter. You'll see one of them pick up a book lying on the floor, flip through it, and toss it aside. That book is a mockup of "Dining on Babylon 5" which hadn't been published at the time of filming.
I didn't know Joe was going to do that, and only found out when the episode aired. (I think I peed all over the floor when I saw it ...) So far as I'm concerned, if it airs on the show then it's canon. If you assume the book was published in late third season, then by the middle of the fifth season it would make sense that this book made the rounds for its semi-tabloid nature and was quickly tossed aside. Finding it lying about in an air raid shelter seems entirely appropriate.
Joe did tweak the spoo recipes, because he had a reference to it in an upcoming episode, so he wanted to be sure the book was consistent.
The Boxtree license only allowed the book to be published in the U.K. and I think a couple other European countries. Del Rey, the U.S. publisher with the rights to the B5 novels, showed no interest at all in the cookbook, which is why it never surfaced here in the States. Any copies in the U.S. were shipped from the U.K.
It's a shame it never got a reprint, here or there, because it's a fairly unique, if not bizarre, piece of B5 spinoff merchandise. I'm still surprised it was ever published in the first place -- but then B5 always had its unique bizarre sense of humor, so I guess the cookbook fits in just fine.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Great B5 food reference AND actual recipe book
By SRFireside
You know what I hate more than anything about cook books that tag a name of some sci-fi show? The fact that many of them are in no way related to the source material. They are just relatively simple and common recipes with some science fiction reference tagged on it (hear that Star Wars Cookbook?).
Okay no more ranting. Dining on Babylon 5 is much more than that. What you have are "human" equivalent of actual dishes seen and heard about on the Babylon 5 series. Not only that but you also get some very interesting background information on various alien foods you hear on the show like spoo and the origins of the Jovian Sunspot.
First lets talk about the recipes, which I'm sure most cook book owners want to know about. The book is broken down into different sections, done by a character in the show who is sharing their recipe. Mollari, G'Kar, Lenier, Garibaldi, and Ivanova. Here's a quick breakdown:
Ivanova's section really only deals mostly with russian quisine and isn't any different than what you would get anywhere else. The exception to that is the drink, Jovian Sunspot. I bet you didn't know that was a human drink? Well the book answers that for you.
Garibaldi's section is a mix of American/Italian quisine and a little bit of alien reference. You get to see the coveted Bagna Cauda recipe on this one. I think this section also has an interesting alien recipe referred to as "Tubers"
Lennier's section has flarn is the most notable recipe. What's cool about the alien recipes is they give the actual alien name for the food and then the "human" equivalent.
G'Kar's section has Breen, which we all know as Swedish Meatballs. I don't have the book in front of me so I can't remember the other recipes aside from a "Narn" version of Spoo.
Mollari's section has the most alcoholic drinks in it. Surprised? Now you can make a home-grown version of Hot Jala and Brivari. Obviously not as strong, but oh well. There is a Centauri recipe for Spoo, which is of course very different from the Narn and a few other dishes that sounded tasty by looking at the ingredients (very Italian by way of the sauces).
So the recipes are fun. Now for the B5 fans you also get some background info on stuff like what spoo actually is, the history behind Garibaldi's favorite restaurant chain (Artereal Blockage or something like that), Centauri ceremonies and the temprement of some indigenous fish they hunt, and more. Some of the information is just culled from various episodes so nothing new there. However there is enough new information to make this an enjoyable addition for the die-hard fan.
This book was published in England. The master chef/narrator definitely has that slant in the writing style, which is all the cooler when you find out it's an American writer (thanks Steve for clarifying that). When the writer emulates the other B5 characters that british slant is gone though. It's like reading dialog straight from Londo, Garibaldi, etc. The only difference is the way the recipes are written tend to be all the same (with a few humourous exceptions).
I guess some of you will be wondering if this book is "canon". While I haven't seen any definite yes from JMS he has all but done so when talking about it. JMS was quoted saying -
"I had mainly just editorial input into it, Steve wrote the thing. It's actually a lot of fun, and the illustrations are gorgeous." (JUL.1.1998)
"Basically, I just think it'll be a hoot. The recipes are real, with substitutions if you can't get the real thing from offworld caterers, and it's set right in the B5 universe, as if it were written in that time period, with all the usual Chef attitude that goes into it." (OCT.22.1997)
That's good enough for me. Dining on Babylon 5 is a great little collectors item. Yeah... it's a collectors item. It was only made in England and in limited quantities at that. Consider yourself lucky if you find one. I guess buying it at collector's prices will depend on if you like what you hear enough to pay whatever is being offered. I got mine for around $35 and it was a steal.
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