"๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ฐ๐ฉ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ": ๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐
Hello! Hi! As I mentioned a bit ago on my main blog... (checks notes, brief expression of horror)... last December- I am finally getting this project properly underway!
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about (which is fair, honestly), this blog exists for one extremely sensible and normal reason:
I am creating a fanmade cookbook inspired by The Witcher 3.
Yes. The whole dang thing.
Every village, inn, marketplace, fishing hamlet, roadside tavern, suspicious cellar, and cabbage-filled peasant hut I can find across the Continent etc etc... is being investigated in the name of culinary science.
As a result, I have started a fresh playthrough of the game (expansions included) and will be documenting:
๐ฅ Regional ingredients, local food cultures, and the economics of various villages, cities, and assorted settlements. Because I looked at a fantasy cookbook project and thought, "You know what this needs? Trade analysis." So you will be getting that.
๐ฅ Merchant wares, inn menus, and whatever peasants seem to be growing behind their houses that I have not stolen and/or legally looted yet.
๐ฅ Herbs, plants, and foraging opportunities. This may gradually become a botanical guide. Expect observations along the lines of "THIS ONE IS POISON, M'LORD."
๐ฅ Fanmade recipes inspired by locations throughout the game. Like Toussaint, Skellige, Novigrad etc etc.
๐ฅ Field notes that may or may not qualify as academic research (they will).
๐ฅ Occasional arguments about cheese. I am French. Cheese is important. I feel Toussaint on a spiritual, physical, and emotional level.
The blog itself is written from the perspective of Judith, a young woman from Toussaint (DUH) who has somehow decided that wandering around a monster-infested continent cataloguing food is a perfectly reasonable life choice.
This is part travel journal, part roleplay blog, part cookbook development project, and part "I spent twenty minutes investigating a barrel because I thought it might contain onions."
Questions, asks, comments, and roleplay interactions are all welcome! Just keep in mind that Judith takes food very seriously! Possibly more seriously than the average witcher takes drowners.
Anyway! The notebook is open, my pot is on and the Continent's culinary secrets will be revealed!!...
Or I will get eaten by a fiend while attempting to identify wild garlic!
Either way, there will be notes!๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅโจ
