Dear Traveller,
One of the best things in travelling (both in time and in space) is tasting the food cooked at your destination (wherever and whenever you might go).
One of the first things any traveller (and any human being for that matter) needs to know, is their own self (“Know thy self”). More particularly, know your own stomach… Avoid everything that might cause you gastric problems… General try to be conservative in what you buy from marketplaces, agoras etc…
Some time-travellers I know choose to take something of their own to eat while travelling in order to avoid annoying problems… This is too much, but should you think you have no alternative you can do it… If you do, there are two rules to remember: (Check your handbook, pages 205-207)
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NEVER (and I do mean NE-VEEEEER) let any of the local people living in the past take a glimpse of your cereal bar of muffin… They get questions, and then they start getting ideas… and the whole time-space continuum things gets messy… and trust me you don’t want to go there…
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If you do bring food from the present back to the past… make sure it kind of looks like something they had back there… no raising suspicions, no problems!
And please… please, don’t let the locals taste it… (read the bullet above…)
Generally though, I would suggest tasting the food… Some amazing flavors have been lost in the course of time, and you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to tasting them… even maybe getting the recipe from a local cook…
Good times to travel for expanding your cooking horizons:
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Ancient Greece: Definitely a good destination… Make sure you have some pork cooked in wine… and some sweets… their sweet taste is due to the honey in them… and I doubt you’ve even tasted a better honey… Make sure you don’t insult them about the wine; the Greek tended to put water in it, so as to stay as much sober as possible.
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Rome: The empire years… The general Lukulus is famous for his feasts (and orgies, but that a different story). Rumor has it that the food that was served in just one of his feast was of great variety and enough to feed a whole city… Lukulus was also the one that brought cherries into Rome… and most of the sweets served in his feasts included cherries (yam-yam..)
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The Machu Pichu: at the age of the Mayan civilization. Beverages of coffee beans and pure chocolate… Meat cooked with chocolate… Sweets made of chocolate… Body paint of chocolate… chocolate… chocolate… chocolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate….
Places to avoid… hmmm, that’s tricky… best to avoid medieval Europe… and Australia… China, unless you like sushi… and the south of Africa… France, is definitely out of the question!!! You might think “Why is she telling as not to go to these places? The have amazing food”… Not back then, my friends… not back then…
Other than that… Try to keep an open mind… Try to keep a low profile… and make sure you enjoy yourselves!
Good day to you… “Wherever” you are…
E.
