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Writing about food is weird for me. See, I was raised vegetarian and have never knowingly eaten meat, but I keep writing characters who are... not vegetarians. So I end up picking fairly random foods that I've heard about or seen other people eating or read about. It's somewhat easier in modern-day stuff, because I can always default to takeout (in my current novel WIP I've had the characters eat General Tso's Chicken and cheeseburgers), but in medieval or other era stories, I feel like it's obvious that I'm completely making up the dishes.

I guess I should be taking notes next time I watch The Supersizers so I can have lists of foods for different eras!