Food and Drink in Strotherhine, Lore 24: February
I am a brewer by trade, so I may have a strong bias about the significance of food and drink, but I think it is telling that so many great authors devote so much of their works to depicting these elements of their worlds. Food and drink are such vivid and tangible reflections of the people and place that they come from. Both tell so much about the society and time that produced and enjoyed them. But it isn’t just the finished food and drink that tell these stories, the customs and process that surround their preparation and enjoyment are also grounded in the cultural and historical roots of a society. So in thinking about what to write for my monthly Lore 24 posts I knew I wanted to devote at least one to the food and drink of Strotherhine. Strotherhine sits on the edge of the known world, and its citizens come from an empire that spans continents. Meaning that the people that make up Strotherhine will each have their own food traditions and techniques that may already be foreign ...