A Recipe for Death

Star Wars - Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away - Aliens

by Landry Q. Walker

When his sous chef turns up dead, the cook at Maz Kanata's castle holds an unusual competition to find the culprit in "A Recipe for Death." Don't miss this eBook adventure and more from TALES FROM A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: ALIENS, available now!

Genres: Star Wars, Science Fiction, Short Stories

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2016

About the author

Landry Q. Walker is a New York Times bestselling author of comics and books. His work includes Star Wars stories, Batman and Supergirl comics, and the Project Terra series of novels. He also co-created a Saturday morning cartoon called Scary Larry. He likes castles and robots and also pop-tarts. Most days he sits in his office and pushes buttons on a keyboard until stories somehow happen.

Reviews

[Peace · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like cooking competitions, aliens, and murder mysteries, this is a good one.

[Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5

I liked this story more than the first one. This is focused on "Cookie," Maz Kanata's chef, trying to solve a murder mystery that took place in his kitchen. It's entertaining and I liked the way things were solved at the end. This story is a bit strange, but you have to take that with Star Wars sometimes. 3.5/5 stars.

[Roxy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was really fun! It's a short story so it doesn't overstay it's welcome. It has a single goal (to tell a murder mystery, whodunit... but in a space kitchen), it commits to it, and it pulls it off. There are no connections to the larger Star Wars universe, except some name dropping and obviously the fact that it exists in the same setting, and it's better for it!

Honestly, the main plot idea is... great. I LOVE the thought of a cooking competition being done to weed out a murderer who stole a recipe book from the murder victim. It's so interesting and creative! Rian Johnson, take notes for the next Knives Out movie, please.

This was the first read on my Star Wars Canon Adventure, being as the lovely people over at Wookiepedia decided that certain lines in this made it set 100 years before The Phantom Menace, apparently. It's not an entirely bad way to start the journey. Quite a refreshing one, actually.

[Dustin (dragonarmybooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

My Rating - 3.5 Stars

I'm contemplating going through the entire (Disney) canon of Star Wars in chronological order. I know it's a really bad idea because there are already so many entries that it would quickly become overwhelming. However, while the desire is there, I picked up this quirky short story that supposedly kicks off the saga as its earliest recorded events, some time before 90 BBY. Though, as far as I could tell, there is no mention of anything in the universe that would set it this early. Either way...

This is actually a really good, silly story with memorable characters, an intriguing whodunit mystery, and all set in a kitchen competition at Maz Kanata’s castle set up a lot like Chopped on the Food Network. You get aliens. You get fun. But you don't get any Force.

Onward!

[C.J. Daley · Rating 4 out of 5]

So this is technically a YOUNG READER level short story. A Disney canon short story, it’s short, fun, and a quick read. It can alternatively be found in the collection, Tales From The Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens: Vol. 1.

A Recipe For Death: 4*

This story was silly, fun, and even horrid?
It takes place in Moz’s castle and is both a funny cook-off and a murder mystery slapped into one. It’s also a pretty in-depth look at cooking in the galaxy far, far away—which is such a strange, minuscule thing to pursue. What could be better?

[Sophie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Star Wars short story, and first in the canon timeline at the time of writing this review. A Recipe For Death was a fun, kind of gruesome look at behind the scenes of Maz Kanta’s castle, which I really enjoyed. The actual writing was too basic for me, and perhaps needed a bit more description to bring out some more crucial elements of the story. The plot was small, but very good.
Overall score: 3.2/5

[Meghan Pace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun but not important

It was an extremely easy read. Short read, simple language anf not really any room for character development. It was just a nice story that ties in to galaxy's edge but doesn't really do much for the star wars universe. I would recommend it to any big star wars fan but otherwise skip it.

[Maziar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good thing it was a short story! how can you be so repetitive in a short story? even the sentences in a paragraph! Building tension with repeating a clause or a noun phrase 5 times in a paragraph is tiresome. This read more like a short story a student would write a night before the submission while trying their best to meet the word count requirement.

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's cute and short. Shouldn't have any regrets reading it. Made me think about how we, sentient creatures, believe feelings/senses are so complicated and they cannot be replicated - all because there are droid judges for a cooking contest.

A little simple on the murder mystery, but kinda fun (for me) nonetheless.

[Louie Plunkett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chopped, Star Wars style

The story was well-written and entertaining. It was like reading an episode of Chopped. It's not your typical Star Wars story with lightsabers and force users, but it still had that "galaxy far, far away" vibe.

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

On the whole, not a bad story with a blend of a murder mystery mixed with a Top Chef competition plot but the escalating difficulties of the challenge were a little ludicrous.

[Jacob Burdis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short story was a cute off-shore about a cook in Maz Kanata's castle who gets caught in a murder mystery. A fun story, but really had little to do with star wars.

[Benjamin Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a Story of Who Done its

CSI meets Star Wars I have to say this story was very enjoyable definitely check this out ..If You Like either

[A. M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's goofy but remains a lot of fun. Enjoyable, although the plot is rather limited in scope. A quick, good read with some decent investigative work.

[Kai Charles(Fiction State Of Mind) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally getting around to reading these shorts based on the creatures in The force Awakens. In this story a Dead Sous chef leads the Chef of Maz's castle to come up with a competition to flesh the killer out.

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seems like a fitting first story to the canon. My goals and the droid’s goals seem to go hand in hand.

[James Lenstein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alien cooks. Murder-mystery. Missing sous-chef. More gore than expected. Killed droids. Star Wars.

What's not to like?

[Alex Mayfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

TikTok Review: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJn7V9FV/

[Eduard Gafton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as part of Star Wars: Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Vol 1: Aliens and because in the new canon Star Wars timeline, it precedes Phantom Menace.

Space Master Chef! (with a side dish of murder mystery)

Surprisingly entertaining, despite just decent writing.

[Mayumi]

Marquei lido aqui: Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Vol. 1: Aliens.

[Doğukan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Doesn't gives us anything about the lore but i enyojed it.

[Shawn Fairweather · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pointless to even mention the name Star Wars. Simple money grab here folks. A cooking competition to find the murderer who has ambitions to become a sous chef. I kid you not, that bad.

[Madeline · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rating: **1/2 stars


Good introduction to Chef Strono “Cookie” Tuggs, who will be cooking for us on Batuu at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge starting later this month. Not a lot to this mystery but still pretty fun to read, especially if you’re heading to Disneyland or WDW this year; delve into the history and lore before you go!