- "When I managed to convince one of 'em to crack open the tank and lemme sample a piece of the mynock, I was blown away by the flavor. Now, instead of cursin' those beastly things for drainin' my ship dry, I'm proudly servin' pickled mynock to any partygoer eager to fuel up."
- ―Strono Tuggs, The Life Day Cookbook
Pickled mynock was a party dish made from mynocks,[2] a type of silicon-based parasite known to suck the power from starships.[3] The Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs created the dish after convincing one of the servers at Oga's Cantina in Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu to let him taste the pickled mynock they kept as a drink ingredient in a tank behind the bar. Tuggs, who had previously only thought of mynocks as worthless pests, was amazed at the flavor of the pickled creature, so he began serving them to hungry party-goers. At some point after Tuggs published his first cookbook[2] in 34 ABY,[4] the chef included a recipe for pickled mynock in his second cookbook, The Life Day Cookbook.[2]
At some point no earlier than 35 ABY,[5] Galactic Society of Creature Enthusiasts' cartographer Ardis San Tekka, mentioned pickled mynock as a popular galaxy-wide drink additive in her journal. While conducting research for it, she sampled a beverage with pickled mynock on Batuu.[1]
Behind the scenes
Pickled mynock were created as a recipe for the 2021 Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook, a recipe book written by Jenn Fujikawa and Marc Sumerak. The out-of-universe recipe for the dish uses shrimp, rice wine vinegar, lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, capers with brine, light brown sugar, salt, red pepper flakes, whole black peppercorns, celery seeds, coarsley chopped fresh dill, a medium shallot, whole garlic cloves, and a lemon.[2]
Sources
- Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook (First mentioned)
- Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1: Creatures of the Galaxy
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1: Creatures of the Galaxy
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook
- ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
- ↑ Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook establishes that the in-universe book was published at the same time as when the First Order was searching for the Resistance base on Batuu, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY.
- ↑ The in-universe journal represented by Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1: Creatures of the Galaxy mentions the defeat of the clone Galactic Emperor Palpatine, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 35 ABY, meaning the document must have been published at some point no earlier than that year.