Top writer's hasty Google search ends in recipe for embarrassment: Irish novelist John Boyne features fictional ingredients from Legend of Zelda video game in his book

A best -selling author searching for authenticity for his new book has been caught out after relying a little too much on a hasty Google search.
Irish novelist John Boyne wanted to feature a traditional way of making red dye in A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom.
But his online research turned up a guide from a children’s video game featuring a host of bizarre ingredients.
Boyne had to hold up his hands after fans pointed out that it came from 2017 game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. 
Items including ‘Octorok eyeball, hightail lizard, the tail of the red lizalfos and Hylian shrooms’ come from the fictional world of Hyrule in the game franchise. 
Irish novelist John Boyne (pictured) wanted to feature a traditional way of making red dye in A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom
Irish novelist John Boyne (pictured) wanted to feature a traditional way of making red dye in A Traveller at the Gates of WisdomBoyne had to hold up his hands after fans pointed out that it came from 2017 game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (scene pictured)
Boyne had to hold up his hands after fans pointed out that it came from 2017 game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (scene pictured)
Boyne, whose other books include The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, told fans: ‘It’s funny and you’re totally right. 
'I don’t remember but I must have just Googled it.’ 
However, he plans to keep the list in the paperback version.

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