Generational Cooking

Families come in all shapes, sizes and connections. Sometimes it is a core of people with like blood, sometimes it is a network of lovers, sometimes it is a tutor group, and sometimes the whole community can be called a 'family'. No matter how the way goes, there is always a pot to stir and a recipe to pass on.

Within Levis, there is almost a pride in passing along the recipes of your ancestry to those you care about and the next generation. The variations between families and tweaking and making your own modifications to the family creations is in itself an act of love and there is a debate in some culinary circles if it is better to maintain the purity of older recipes, or to adapt and tweak the recipes to your own design.

With the invent of writable bindings, families are able to store recipes as annotated records, passing the original ideas along with all the tweaks and changes down in custom tomes. There is still something special about teaching those you love the ways of cooking but records are important once the lesson has been learnt.

But what about the eternally single, or those who traded their gardens for a daily meal from the academy?

Recipes do not end with a decision to value things more than cooking. For the single, one can often find friends or compatriots who value cooking that one can pass off their recipe book, or teach a lesson or two to - mutual cooking nights over a Starberry Wine or bringing something to a community gathering can be a great way to disseminate ideas and recipes through the community.

For those that value things other than cooking, one could always donate their family binding to something like a library or archive, letting people borrow it to adapt or change their own recipes for the crops they have in their gardens or new variations on something they had but have now lost.

And what of new beginnings? Those who have had to start without a generation above them for some reason or another?

Barring the obvious finding a community or mentor to pull into and join, the next best thing is going to the archives, picking up an old tome and experimenting in a mass of trial and error to see what works for the individual. For not everyone has the same garden or access to trade for the same materials.

This is the pride of the region; and has been seen, grown upon and developed with each new immigrant from the realms beyond - and as spices and plants from beyond the portals come through with the advent of Hublesstone, the demons, imps and brutes are taught the community built around learning the recipes of those that came before and adding just a touch more.