Dan Babel

Recipes to play the House of Cards: Keep Your Card Game Strong for The Kitchen! Dan Babel

House of Cards is a popular American Netflix Series that has taken over the internet in the past few years. Categorized as a political thriller drama, it expands to over 6 seasons with over 70 episodes. The show covers a phase of life of a witty and corrupt congressman named Frank Underwood and his ambitious and cunning wife Claire Underwood and their struggles in the political race to rise to the top of the food chain using a range of corrupt, witty, and unethical measures. This show deals with manipulative politicians, greedy officials, merciless measures to gain economically and politically.

The show uses a lot of metaphors and symbolism with the help of various food dishes signifying the concept of a food chain that is prevalent in the political scene of the show, which everyone wants to climb over to reach the apex. Therefore, we have curated a range of recipes that are featured in the show throughout and some recipes that will remind you of the characters and their ill measures. The recipes depict the preferences of the characters very well. Some recipes like pork ribs, coffee, and alcoholic beverages are very recurrent in the show displaying the nature of the characters. Busy government officials taking coffee to energize themselves and work overnights, the rich classes sipping a glass of fizzy drinks at the elite feasts and parties, devouring ribs at the iconic Freddy's BBQ Joint are some pictorial imageries that can be seen throughout the show which is why the recipes related to it are also recurrent in the cookbook to remind you of the vibes the show creates. The cookbook also features other dishes that were in the show with the aim that it will recreate the atmosphere of the show while these dishes are made or eaten. Dishes that remind us of the characters even though they are not featured in the show are also added to add in the right feels. We aim that this cookbook will be equally admired by all the people who admired the series and will be enjoyed by them.