So I was wondering what the delightful @TheEdVerse can tell us about the street foods of Cormyr’s cities. Also, any (in)famous trays/carts to keep eyes for in particular … Suzail’s own CMOT Dibbler?
— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) February 28, 2019
Well, there’s the rat tarts El and his friends were munching in Hastarl, in Athalantar. That scene was cut from El: Making Of A Mage, but is still up on the Wizards website (or was). I did a street foods web article years back, too. Then there are all the Volo’s…#Realmslore 2)
…mentions. Hmm. Let's recap: sausages and savory meat tarts (palm-sized pastries with diced meat and gravy in them, everything from eels to pigeons to roast boar to rabbits and voles; whatever's locally handy) are "walkabout street food" in many cities, and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2019
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…are sold from carts, market stalls, and through shuttered serving-windows in many, many cities across the Realms. In Cormyr, specifically: grouse and hare pies dominate in Arabel, eel and fish pies in Marsember, and beef and boar pies in Suzail (you can get…#Realmslore 4)
…just about anything in any of the three cities, but the listed ingredients are most popular and easily found for sale). Sword Coast ports now also offer what's always been popular in the Shining South: pickles, either spicy or not, served in a fried or baked…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2019
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…pinched-pastry shell (think “Cornish pasty”). And many places in the interior of Faerun offer various flavored flatbreads (think naan), sometimes rolled around pickles or strong-spiced cheese or slices of smoked fish (smoked in smoke, not modern real-world…#Realmslore 6)
…lox or chemical-bath "smoked"), And that just scratches the surface. Deep-fried prawns, fruits, rice-and-meat balls, rice-and-fish balls…in a cosmopolitan port, you can usually get just about anything. :}#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2019
