Mini-Challenge: Cheftide

[lannamichaels]

Thanks to crantz for the name!

Let's face it. Some characters are good at cooking. Some characters are not good at cooking. Some characters merely need to allow their cooking genius to develop. But all of it makes for great fic!

This year, let's write some cooking for Yuletide. Let's explore all manner and methods of preparing food for consumption, whether it be for humans or space aliens or bears or anything you can think of.

"Cooking", for the sake of this challenge, is defined as broadly as you like to be for any kind of food preparation you would like it to be. Recipes optional, but welcome.

To participate, leave a comment with your AO3 name, your fandoms, and any prompts, and/or put them in your letter as Cheftide prompts. When posting your fic, tag it as Cheftide.

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[(Anonymous)]

AO3 name: skazka
Fandoms: The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters; The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James; Mary Reilly - Valerie Martin; HBO Rome; Edward Edward - Lolah Burford
Prompts: All of these fandoms are historical fandoms, so please feel free to go hogwild with historical cooking! Elaborate or humble, appetizing or not so much -- Victorian nursery food, beef teas prepared with scrupulous care for your exhausted employer (you know how delicate his disposition is!), Georgian-Regency culinary disasters and agonizing family dinners, WWII-era rationing and postwar British cooking, ancient Roman culinary culture. (Dormice, garum, animal testicles served very rare... and lots of other stuff that's less gnarly but just as memorable.) I love food preparation as an act of love, food preparation as an act of (underappreciated? unseen? misunderstood?) domestic labor, food as medicine, and all the ways everyday material culture manifests itself around cooking and dining.

[skazka]

Oop, pretend I posted this one logged-in.

Letter: https://skazka.dreamwidth.org/174407.html

[lannamichaels]

(do you want me to delete the anon comment for you or leave as-is?)