Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Food for Thought

A guilty pleasure of mine is watching Corporal's Corner videos, addressing different camping/bushcrafting things.  Camping is a dream of mine, meeting my vague ideas of manliness, while also being a hobby I can truthfully say I lack time to pursue - Alabama weather encourages this.

Basically, these videos provide me an excuse for me to get cool outdoorsy stuff for my kids to inherit in 30+ years.  I know they'll thank me then.

These videos led to Townsends, a channel dedicated to the 18th century lifestyle, including recipes.  From there, I found Tasting History, particularly these episodes about mead and historical butterbeer.  This could make for an entertaining way to teach history - people remember food.

Given how many games are either pseudo-historical settings or actual historical settings, these are ideal videos, if only to set the mood.

I bring all this up because there are many folks who not only feed their gaming groups, but go out of their way to make thematically appropriate food - there is even an official DnD cookbook (and an unofficial book of DnD-themed drink recipes)!

So if you cook for your group, try some of these recipes.

Duergar Rations. Image from this lovely thread on Tumblr.  Note it details what this food actually is.

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