Food can reveal a lot about a place, even a mythical one. If we want a visitor to understand how we live, we invite him to dinner. When we wonder what life was like in fabled places like Avalon, Atlantis, and the Lost City of Z, a hypothetical menu can fill in a lot of the details.

    I invite you, then, to sample the real foods of fantastical lost worlds. Using archaeological records from actual places that existed in a similar geography and time, I have constructed dinner menus for five fictional lands of legend. So even if Avalon was just a fever dream of a cleric’s overactive imagination, you can still prepare a feast worthy of King Arthur.



galen:

link slightly related, always worth a mention


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