![]() ![]() "Bread is quite well known in Fantasyland, but you will seldom get much of it and it will never be fresh.Stew will be what you are served to eat every single time." You may shortly be longing passionately for omelette, steak or baked beans, but none of these will be forthcoming, indoors or out. "Stew is the staple food in Fantasyland, so be warned.Mocked in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, naturally.And in Dzur, Vlad sits with a guest to a multi-stage meal, where the main course is something you forget you've ordered because of everything you've sampled before it arrives at the table (and Vlad, as narrator, suggests not finishing each stage. In one book (possibly Teckla) it's implied that a local inn/restaurant serves (American) Chinese food. The series generally averts it, in part because Food Porn is Author Appeal. Here, the protagonists order at an inn what is described as the house bread with some kind of cheese and smoked fish however, it's pretty clear that what they are actually ordering is bagels and lox. A parody example via expospeak occurs in the Dragaera novel Issola.While on a spying mission in Atlantis, Ray Osborne orders food at a tavern and is served a bowl of stew and a hunk of bread. For general information about actual medieval European cuisine, see our Useful Notes page for Medieval Food In Europe. See also All Beer Is Ale and The Need for Mead. 175Ī subtrope of The Dung Ages, but can also be found in works that avert that trope. Even though pasture-grazed sheep's meat was "stringy", slow-cooking in a stew pot helped to tenderize it. 93 By the late medieval era, sheep were an important food source, supplying milk, meat and cooking fat. In the "herb" category were cabbage, spinach, cress, and nettle/thistle sprouts. The root crops included "turnips, radishes, onion, leeks, carrots (of a sort)" and parsnip. In Real Life, during the early medieval period, peasants ate "bread, porridge, herb and roots", supplemented by fish, shellfish, hare, pigs fattened on acorns and chicken. Peasants didn't eat much meat, but bread would have been a staple item, and the stewpot was an efficient way to cook, as you could mix in bits and pieces of roots and herbs you happen to have. That said, there's a certain amount of Truth in Television here for poor people. Poor people or travelers could gather wild plants, nuts, and mushrooms, but only rarely will fictional characters do likewise. You also won't see anyone eating plant-based foods other than bread, unless it's being used in the stewpot. Beer would only be available if they just left a town where they could have bought some, anything cooked requires a longer stop (so is normally reserved for the evening meal).Īctual medieval cookery was far more advanced than this note Admittedly, the extant cookbooks were written for noble households, but unless the author is a history and/or cooking buff, you won't see any sign of this. If the characters are fixing a quick lunch on the road, they might have a pasty or meat pie or some sausage with them, but otherwise it's cheese and bread. Rich, aristocratic characters might have a joint of meat as well. Loaf of bread, a wooden bowl of stew or soup, and a tankard of ale. If the setting is anything close to "generic copy of Europe", they'll be handed cheese, a rough-looking When the Main Characters of a fantasy story stop for a meal, they don't get much of a choice on what to eat. ![]()
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