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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 8197079" data-attributes="member: 3285">My daughter so far has only been a fan of a few of the recipes in <a href="https://amzn.to/2NrnPDu" target="_blank">Heroes' Feast</a>, so we thought we'd create one of her favorites: noodles, from Kara-Tur to be precise.[ATTACH=full]132662[/ATTACH]<h3>The Other Parts of Faerun</h3>It's perhaps not surprising that <a href="https://amzn.to/2NrnPDu" target="_blank">Heroes' Feast</a> is largely focused on Euro-centric dishes. Kara-Tur Noodles are essentially stir fry, but it's a welcome change from all the meat with meat gravy with a side of meat.[ATTACH=full]132663[/ATTACH]<h3>The Meal</h3>I'm allergic to peanuts, so we substituted vegetable oil for peanut oil. This meal doesn't take long, but the sauce requires gets complicated in how its applied. The bell pepper and onion were a treat and gave it  some real heft, but the chicken to noodle ratio was woefully inadequate. This might have had something to do with the fact that during a pandemic we ended up with a delivery substitution of smaller pieces of chicken; even then, you could easily double the amount and still have enough noodles to go around.The meal was surprisingly bland, despite the pepper and onion. My daughter thought the noodles were okay. I ended up eating the noodles for an entire week, with a variety of leftovers from other meals. Incidentally, I lost a few pounds too, which I chalk up to the fact that the noodles are quite filling but not heavy on the calories.[ATTACH=full]132664[/ATTACH]<h3>Communicating Geography with Food</h3>One of the points made clear in the description of these noodles is how they're different from a typical meal. But it also is a narrative means of letting player characters know there's a larger world out there. Meals like this are an easy means of introducing a region the PCs might adventure to in the future.Of course, constructing menus for a campaign world requires some forethought; you'll need to know where your territories are located in relation to each other and how they interact. Do they trade? Has one region conquered the other? Do people travel regularly between lands? All this tells a story without the PCs actually going anywhere.These kinds of diverse menus lend themselves to coastal nations with thriving trade ports. My own world has the Atikoff, an ancient Greek-themed territory that conducts trade with the surrounding regions. With the Asian-themed Chapor to the east, these noodles wouldn't be out of place on the menu.Your Turn: How do you incorporate your world's food into the local tavern menu?</blockquote>

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