Thoughts on a story idea?

[RepresentingWrath]

I was gonna base the setting on the menu. I'll try to match ingredients with their region but I may be able to explain some inconsistencies away with plot and worldbuilding.

Would be really hard to balance. Another question, are you dead set on making a full meal? Because not every restaraunt has full menu, and I would even argue that not every culture has it.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Sounds great!???

Inspiration ideas to ignore:
make a joke recipe that is the nastiest thing ever as part of an alcohol drinking chapter or something, where they are making things based off dares.
Make Tteok-bokki and sushi. Is super tasty and surprisingly easy.?
Describe a few chapters with different themes of aesthetics and metaphors.
Describe a few chapters with different writing styles and thinking processes.
Make one recipe a aerial plane fight scene, and another a medieval architectural scene, interspersing recipe making in the funniest of ways!

I won't make a joke nasty chapter. I've made sushi and was tought by a Japanese woman I met several years ago (RIP Ms. Kyoko), It is not as easy as it looks. I may make different chapters be from different characters' POV in order to change up the views of the food but I'll keep the style mostly the same. I will keep them in the same setting the whole time.

 

[Notadate]

Love this dude. He shows the old ways explores would pack
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You probably can split up cooking between wilderness cooking and city cooking. Showing the traditional food in each city, and the local fauna and flora to each region.

So show cuisines as he travels. One wilderness and city cooking for each region. This would make it balanced. And would make meals different each time.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Now that I think about it, considering it CAN be a fantasy, why not make this story similar to manga Bartender? Always a new dish, depending on the available ingredients, that caters to a client, and it will suit the healing theme very well.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Would be really hard to balance. Another question, are you dead set on making a full meal? Because not every restaraunt has full menu, and I would even argue that not every culture has it.

True. Not every culture has what Europe and North America would call a full-course meal but almost every culture has a variant of large meals in the form of feasts for religious traditional, and/or communal reasons. If I need to then I can use the power of fiction to make the setting fit to the needs of the recipes.

Love this dude. He shows the old ways explores would pack
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You probably can split up cooking between wilderness cooking and city cooking. Showing the traditional food in each city, and the local fauna and flora to each region.

So show cuisines as he travels. One wilderness and city cooking for each region. This would make it balanced. And would make meals different each time.

Love his channel. Have you watched any of Tasting History?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Not what you are looking for with this thread, sorry, but I think this manga will serve as a good reference. Honjitsu no Burger, it's like Bartender, but instead of cocktails there are burgers.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Have fun writing!

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

I won't make a joke nasty chapter.

Sounds good! I figured you would let them know it is a joke.

I've made sushi and was tought by a Japanese woman I met several years ago (RIP Ms. Kyoko), It is not as easy as it looks.

I disagree. I have made sushi as well, on multiple occasions, and it is great fun to make sushi with the family (though the cleaning aspect... *shudders*). It has always looked extremely difficult, but it is not as hard as one would think.

I may make different chapters be from different characters' POV in order to change up the views of the food but I'll keep the style mostly the same. I will keep them in the same setting the whole time.

And this is why I said inspirations to ignore...

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Not what you are looking for with this thread, sorry, but I think this manga will serve as a good reference. Honjitsu no Burger, it's like Bartender, but instead of cocktails there are burgers.

I think I read it a while back. Isn't that the the isekai where the MC is a cook who is dropped into an orc village and wins the trust and love of a tomboy musclemommy orc woman with the power of hamburgers?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I think I read it a while back. Isn't that the the isekai where the MC is a cook who is dropped into an orc village and wins the trust and love of a tomboy musclemommy orc woman with the power of hamburgers?

You are probably talking about Isekai Ryouridou, but there were no orcs. Honjitsu no Burger is almost a copy of Bartender. The difference between the two is that Honjitsu no Burger is slightly less of an episodic story, and has some kind of plot.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

You are probably talking about Isekai Ryouridou, but there were no orcs. Honjitsu no Burger is almost a copy of Bartender. The difference between the two is that Honjitsu no Burger is slightly less of an episodic story, and has some kind of plot.

Ah, okay. I'll check it out.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Okay, recipes. Pickled Mushrooms(Lactarius), Ukha, Dolma, -, Beef Stroganoff, -, mille feuille, -.

 

[georgelee5786]

@Lorelliad @HelloHound @Rhaps @melchi @BouncyCactus @MouseDestruction @SailusGebel @TenderHuman @Notadate @georgelee5786
What kind of recipes should I use? I need enough for a full meal. An hors d'oeuvre, soup, appetizer, salad, main course, palate cleanser, dessert, and mignardise. Give me some ideas and I'll find some good recipes.

Ribs. No bias j swear.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

@Lorelliad @HelloHound @Rhaps @melchi @BouncyCactus @MouseDestruction @SailusGebel @TenderHuman @Notadate @georgelee5786
What kind of recipes should I use? I need enough for a full meal. An hors d'oeuvre, soup, appetizer, salad, main course, palate cleanser, dessert, and mignardise. Give me some ideas and I'll find some good recipes.

That one recipe you sent me like a while ago. Was it a bbq one?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

That one recipe you sent me like a while ago. Was it a bbq one?

I can't remember.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

I can't remember.

George's comment stirred something in my memory bowl. Pretty sure it was indeed ribs, yes

 

[Notadate]

George's comment stirred something in my memory bowl. Pretty sure it was indeed ribs, yes

Indeed

 

[TsumiHokiro]

Cooking literature has great reach since humans require eating to live. It is also an important aspect in many cultures, both as a social occasion and as for the culinary aspect, therefore it makes for a great topic, which this chick says is a good go either fantasy or non-fantasy.

Even if you decide to write fantasy dishes, the sensations one can have while eating are universally understood and therefore can be easily translated even if the reader does not know the meal, so long they can understand how they who eat are feeling.

As for what you should have them eat, that's up to you. This feathered creature is only interested in eating insects and vegetables, and they would make for boring recommendations.