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[chancing]

Who: Cristina Vespucci (chancing) & Shaun Hastings (thehistorian) & Desmond Miles (seventeenth)
What: An introduction to modern Italian food.
When: June 30th
Where: Kitchen
Rating: G

Cristina makes a point of not coming here very often. Between the appliances she doesn't know how to use, and the food that looks like nothing she's ever seen before, it really didn't make much sense for her to come here very often. It was much easier to just ask the castle for foods she already knew she liked. Maybe it isn't the most adventurous approach, but when it comes to the things she's going to be eating, that's okay with her.

Or that's how it was in the beginning, at least. Now that she's been here for a few months Cristina has started thinking that it might be a good idea to try some new things - or at least semi-new things. Modern Italian food couldn't be that different from what she's used to? Could it? Maybe it's better not to think about it too much and just relax and hope for the best from this meal.

Comments

[thehistorian]

Shaun, at least, is a good cook. He's not going to win any awards (he is English), but he's good enough at what he does, and he's paid attention to enough cooking shows before and read enough cookbooks to have a decent idea of how to cook Italian cuisine. Period-appropriate Italian cuisine? Well, that's a little harder, but he'd rather show the advancements that food has made. He's all for history, but good food is good food.

"Now, have you-- have you had a tomato yet?" he queries, glancing at Cristina, the question all across his face. "You predate their inclusion in cuisine by a bit, and I don't want to overwhelm you."