"Oh, that depends largely on the culture, you see. There are certainly places I've visited that won't complain about any food at all, as long as they have enough to keep themselves alive. Yet in others, you have such an abundance of food that one can pick and choose precisely what to eat out of a broad selection."

She followed up the speech with a bite of her own lemon-and-turkey sandwich. Raine's cooking was a little special in and of itself.