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Zelda recipe appears in serious novel by serious author after rushed Google search – The Verge
John Boyne’s latest book includes a small Zelda easter egg, despite being set in the real world. The author appears to have accidentally used a Polygon Zelda guide to find the real-world ingredients for red clothes dye.
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If you were writing a book and needed to find out how red clothes dye is traditionally made, youd probably start with a simple Google search. At least, thats what John Boyne, the author behind The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas says he must have done when it emerged that several fantasy ingredients from The Legend of Zelda have appeared in his most recent book, A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom.
The problem, as journalist Dana Sc…
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