Gifts for amateur chefs

In Winterfell wird nicht mit Cocktailgläsern angestoßen. Wenn im Norden gefeiert wird, dann in einer zugigen Halle, mit Met, mit Gebrüll und mit ei...

A hundred coins and the counter flips over into an extra life. Hardly any game has made collecting loose change as satisfying as Super Mario, and a...

Summer 1985, Hawkins is sweating, and the only air conditioned address in town is the shopping mall. Behind the counter at Scoops Ahoy stands Steve...

A binge session rarely fails because of the show. It fails because your glass runs dry at the worst possible moment and nobody is willing to climb ...

Before a pirate crew gets round to any adventure, somebody has to make coffee first. In the morning half the crew sits around the table saying noth...

Smoker is the vice admiral who keeps smouldering even when nothing is on fire. Two cigars in the corner of his mouth, a permanent bad mood in his e...

In One Piece a ship is never merely a means of transport. The Going Merry is the Straw Hat crew's first own caravel: small, a little wobbly and fit...

“Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle.” Whole generations of players have heard that line from Toad, usually right after a level ...

Mario covers impressive distances in his games: running, jumping, climbing through pipes and finally taking on Bowser. He picks up his supplies fro...

Mine sand, set down a furnace, add coal and wait. At the end glass blocks tumble out and the dirt hut finally gets windows. Anyone who has ever bui...

Everyone in the Fantastic Four came back from that cosmic radiation changed in a different way: Reed Richards has stretched like chewing gum ever s...

In the old stories you spotted a demon by the horns: two points above the brow, a whiff of sulphur in the air, and the whole village knew what it w...

Anyone who has eaten properly spicy Korean food knows the moment: the first bite is glorious, by the third one your forehead is glowing, and sudden...

A proper band needs more than music. The faces end up on posters, the name turns into a brand, and sooner or later half the group is standing on a ...

Two circles and a zigzag, that is all it takes: round glasses with tape across the bridge and a lightning shaped scar above them. Everyone in the r...

Every roleplaying group knows the moment when the Dungeon Master can no longer hide the grin: out of the dark corridor a horned skull pushes into t...

A bolt of lightning strikes a police chemistry lab and catches Barry Allen in the middle of the night shift. Ever since, the forensic scientist fro...

When something goes badly wrong in Gotham, Commissioner Gordon swings a searchlight into position on the roof of police headquarters and throws a y...

Somewhere in the eternal ice stands Superman's retreat: a structure of gigantic crystals where he keeps what is left of his lost home world Krypton...

On Pandora, the lawless desert planet from Borderlands, chaos reigns: Vault Hunters blast their way through bandit camps while garish billboards fo...

1955, at exactly 10:04 pm, lightning strikes the clock tower of Hill Valley and sends a certain Marty McFly back to his own present. Ever since, th...

Choosing Charmander in Pokémon means picking heart and flame at once. The little Fire-type lizard Pokémon always carries its blazing fire on the ti...

Gon and Killua are probably the most endearing duo the Hunter Exam has ever thrown together: one a sunny nature boy searching for his father, the o...

In Care of Magical Creatures lessons, you quickly learn that a Hippogriff demands respect and that the Monster Book of Monsters would rather bite y...

In the world of One Piece, nobody makes calls on a smartphone. Instead, little snails crawl around everywhere, the Transponder Snails, which transm...

Who doesn't remember the moment in the Jurassic Park lab when a little Velociraptor cracks its way out of the eggshell while John Hammond looks on,...

Anyone who knows the very first episode of One Piece remembers it: a harmless-looking barrel is rolled on board, and suddenly a hungry boy in a str...

Every Minecraft player knows that sound: a soft hiss behind you, and the base you painstakingly built is history. The Creeper, the sneaking green m...

Wow, you're an even better dinosaur trainer than Owen Grady! Even he wouldn't dare come so close to the fearsome teeth of a raptor. Although Blue i...