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In both Cormyr and Waterdeep, there have been nobles who long ago adopted the custom of eating “handpies” (think Cornish pasties: savory pastries filled with cooked meals) filled and seasoned to their tastes and not overly messy to eat (so, thick syrupy sauces or..
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I was wondering @TheEdVerse if there is some equivalent to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who creates sandwich in order to gamble late into the night?
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...none at all, not watery/runny) so they could pursue various pastimes away from their home dining halls (or country lodge feasting tables). However, none of these are celebrated for innovations in the thinking of “present-day” Realmsfolk, either during the...
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...1300s DR or the 1400s DR; cities across Faerûn adopted handpies as street food for laborers and shopkeepers centuries ago.
The closest we come to the Earl of Sandwich (as in, a noble remembered for a lasting food innovation named for him) in the Realms is a...
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...certain Lady Calyth “Steeldance” Ebonhawk (pronounced “Kh-AL-ith” and the nickname came from her habit of donning silvered plate armor to dance in at revels, rather than gowns, which kept many dance partners at bay), a woman of spirit and whimsical sense of...
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...humor. She liked to eat highly-seasoned pastes of minced meat, with a dessert of cinammon-flavored almond paste, but hated to sit down and interrupt what she was doing to dine, so she had servants follow her with wine to hand her goblets of, as she requested,
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...and wore a belt-satchel containing leaf-wrapped (to guard against spillage; she didn’t eat the leaves) mussel-shells that had been emptied of their mussels, washed and dried, and then stuffed with either the meat paste (think: deviled ham with...
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...very-finely-diced pickles) or the cinammon-almond paste). She’d dig out a shell, part its halves with a thumb, use her fingers to scoop the paste into her mouth, lick her finger clean, and go on with her day, slaking her thirst with wine.
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These snacks are known as “calyths” to this day, and many noble ladies still do this, though the habit hasn’t spread outside the ranks of Cormyrean nobility (and copycat Sembian “wannabe” nobles).
However, many traveling merchants and cooks know what a calyth is.
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Ah! Casino! All the best gambling houses on the Sword Coast, Marsember, and Sembia also serve spiced clams: steamed in the shell, open shells kept warm submerged in poultry broth until served. As served, adorned with a smear of curried thock-sauce (like hummus).
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