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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[anabelissima]

AO3 Handle: anabel

Letter link: https://anabelissima.dreamwidth.org/716.html

Fandoms:

• Emma (2020) – Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley
• West Side Story (1961) – Anita, Bernardo
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971) – Tzeitel, Motel Kamzoil

Emma (2020)

• Either Emma or George secretly likes to cook or bake, even though it’s not really something that people of their class do. They make something for the other person as a gift. Do they tell the giftee they made it? Or wait to see what the giftee will say first?

West Side Story (1961)

• Continuing the banter of “America,” Anita is trying out new American recipes on Bernardo. Which ones does he like, and which ones are a big pass?
• (Canon-divergence AU) - Bernardo is only wounded in the fight, and Anita is nursing him back to health. What does she cook for him?
• (Canon-divergence AU) – Bernardo is slowly coming to terms with the idea that Maria’s fancy for this Polish kid just isn’t going away. (It helps that Chino fell in love with someone else; and maybe Tony saved Bernardo’s life, either in the fight or some other way?) He decides to go meet Tony’s mother, because he’s a big believer in family and thinks you can tell a lot about a person from their family, and she feeds him lunch. What does she feed him? How do they connect?
• (Canon-divergence AU) - Maria is a horrible cook. Anita tries to help her learn how to make Tony’s weird Polish food, and Bernardo eats the rejects and laughs at them.

Fiddler on the Roof

• The first time Motel and Tzeitel sit down to a meal together in their own home, as husband and wife. It’s nothing fancy (unless Tzeitel has cooked one of Lazar’s chickens!), but Tzeitel has made it for them, and they are ridiculously in love.
• Tzeitel celebrates the new sewing machine by baking something delicious.
• As an only child, Motel was taught how to cook, even though it’s not normally something a boy learns. After Yankele is born, Motel cooks for Tzeitel, and they eat together, while their little miracle snoozes.
• Unlike Tevye with Golde, Motel doesn’t forbid Tzeitel to maintain a relationship with Chava after her marriage to Fyedka. They can’t meet in public, but Chava comes to the house sometimes and she and Tzeitel cook together.
• Food as memory – during their years in Poland, what does Tzeitel cook that brings the nostalgia and homesickness for Anatevka flooding in?
• When they get to America to rejoin Tevye, Golde, and the youngest two, what American dish does Tzeitel or Motel fall in love with and immediately learn how to cook or bake to share with the other?

Thank you for reading this, and I hope you have a really happy Yuletide! :)