A feast

[DemonArchangel]

Ok, you're throwing a feast (in the MTW/RTW period).
Name your civilization
What foods you're serving
Who you're inviting
And where you're holding it

[71-hour Ahmed]

Food

A glorious orgy of wine, food and women in the new imperial palace Londinium for my legionairres celebrating the conquest of Pictland. Along with the troops I'll have some of my political enemies from the senate, so I can keep an eye on them, as well as anyone else worth having in roman society. As for the food, a cornucopia of delights from across the empire, including a strange new thing called a haggis from the north...

Any other civ partic a MTW era one would have awful meals by our standards, apart from the moslem ones I think, due to the lack of eating habits or plates...

[magnatz]

I am in the castle of Verona, celebrating the victory of my Goth troops against the Bavari. The throne room is dark, only lightened by the dull reflexes of fire on steel, and the clatter of the prisoners chained in the dungeons feebly resonates under the vast arched ceilings.

I made sure that all the nearby potentates are here to witness my triumph, either around the big oaken table, drinking red wine and exchanging stories, or in a somewhat less confortable position (did I mention the dungeons ?) The Bizantine Hexarc of Ravenna has sent a delegation (half of which are spies), and so did the Huns, the Longobards, the Gepidae and the Avars.

To honor my noble and less noble guests I borrowed the Hibernian cook from the nearby Irish monastery of Bobbio, and his assistants are just serving the main course, which -according to his claims, and they'd better be true- is the same dish that the scholar Mac Conglinne prepared to bait the bulimic demon that plagued Cathal Mac Finguine, King of Munster.


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"Get up," said Mac Conglinne. And he called for juicy old bacon, and tender corned-beef, and full-fleshed wether, and honey in the comb, and English salt on a beautiful polished dish of white silver, along with four perfectly straight white hazel spits to support the joints. The viands which he enumerated were procured for him, and he fixed unspeakable, huge pieces on the spits. Then putting a linen apron about him below, and placing a flat linen cap on the crown of his head, he lighted a fair four-ridged, four-apertured, four-cleft fire of ash-wood, without smoke, without fume, without sparks. He stuck a spit into each of the portions, and as quick was he about the spits and fire as a hind about her first fawn, or as a roe, or a swallow, or a bare spring wind in the flank of March. He rubbed the honey and the salt into one piece after another. And big as the pieces were that were before the fire, there dropped not to the ground out of these four pieces as much as would quench a spark of a candle; but - what there was of relish in them went into their very center. It had been explained to Pichan that the very reason why the scholar had come was to save Cathal. Now, when the pieces were ready, Mac Conglinne cried out, "Ropes and cords here" ...

NB: all the above is quite accurate, except that the Vision of Mac Conglinne (http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/boneill/vision.html) was composed in the 12th century.
(but the recipe may well have existed before than that, and anyway the story is great fun, as with all Irish medieval literature).

[Nowake]

Quote[/b] (DemonArchangel @ Oct. 10 2003,00:27)]Ok, you're throwing a feast (in the MTW/RTW period).
Name your civilization
What foods you're serving
Who you're inviting
And where you're holding it
Nowake's choices:

1` dacian

2` fresh noobs

3` noobs

4' falxmen gathering place

[Leet Eriksson]

Haroun Al Rasheeds plan for world domination:

Civilisation:Abbasid Khalifate

Food:Kabsa,Makbous,Beryani,Mahshi...etc etc pick your poison....err food

Guests:my political enemies,Byzantine Emperor,Holy Roman Emperor,Ummayad Khalifa,arabian princes and nobility...etc etc

Held at:Food Court

Comments:Lots of dancing women,lots of food,loads of wine,imported martial artists from china,and lots of hashishins...ehurm..hashish

Notes prior to the feast:dancing women with swords near the frankish king,women feeding that fat empror poisoned grapes on his lap,poisoned food infront of the gluttonous arabian princes.

Additional notes:Martial artists should be instructed to do martial arts near the khalifah.

Safety Precuations:all guests arriving at the palace should remove whatever weaponry they are carrying and hand it over to the guards,that includes long lances,knives,short swords,daggers,swords,maces,scepters,pointy crowns,cylindrical knives under sleeves and knives hidden in boots.

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[kataphraktoi]

Roman Empire of Byzantium

Food served: Lots of meat, sweet drinks, wine - Halal for Muslims

Guests: Caliph Faisal, Strategos Demarch, the Patriarchs of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Constantinople (no Pope), Viking leaders (potential source of Varangians, Prince of Kiev, Khagan of Khazar, all Armenian princelings, Caliph of Cordova and me.

Occasion: survived another siege of Constantinople(for the 6th time http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif) by the Arabs and the tribute paid to me by the Caliph of 10000 gold dinars, 20000 silver dinars, 500 fine Arab stallions, 6000 slaves and 200,000 dinars worth of pepper. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

Note: All sovereigns attending may bring only one bodyguard with them to the table - no fighting http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

If your gonna declare war, please exit the banquet hall and continue outside.

Everyone must wear mail corselets underneath....for safety reasons.

And all meals will be held in a banquet hall with a pool underneath http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif, yes, the mail is your lifeguard ..umm..jacket...;)

[Leet Eriksson]

what do you think is better on me? a frankish double mail armour or an arabic light chainmail armour?considering the pool below us is not too deep i'd go with the first choice

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[DemonArchangel]

Ok my turn

Viking Feast

Food: Ol, Mjod,Meat,Fish, the occasional human oh and those magic red mushrooms that cause belligerence in human subjects.

Who's invited: Everyone that can cram into the banquet hall that can bring a sword or axe.

Where i'm holding it: In a banquet hall that's larger than vahalla.

Other requirements: EVERYONE must bring either a sword or an axe, no armor needed http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

[Nowake]

You have to have some food, I guess.