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victory_road2021-01-16 01:24 am
indigo_league) wrote in victory_road2021-01-16 01:24 am
Bakers, start your baking!
Who: Everybody!
Where: Riegfried and Soy's mansion
When: January 15th; day time for the cooking part, evening for the mingle part.
Summary: Come one, come all to the newest contest hosted by Riegfried and Soy. Today's theme: cooking!
[Daytime - The kitchens]
Throughout the day, the kitchens will be open to all contestants, though any casual onlookers --human, pokemon, or otherwise-- will be shooed out to prevent any cheating.
Each contestant will be directed to a gleaming counter, where they will be able to find everything from your basic whisk and spatula to gleaming kitchen machinery fancy enough to make any cook feel faint with envy. Each counter comes complete with a small fridge (should you need to chill any of your ingredients), an oven, a stove, a microwave -- really, anything you can imagine and it is there. Riegfried and Soy clearly didn't want anyone to run into the issue of not having the right equipment for the job.
At the back of the room are the fridges: tall, imposing fridges made of gleaming metal stocked full of every sort of ingredient you could possibly think of. And next to the fridges, contestants can find rows and rows of shelves, each nearly bowing under the weight of the products placed on them -- from fresh fruit, to spices, to rice and noodles. If you need it, you can find it.
Riegfried and Soy will be flitting around the room like a pair of extravagant Butterfrees, happy to engage contestants in small interviews. Everything for the camera, baby! Because those are also there; they are clearly trying to stay out of everybody's way, but small, Rotom-powered cameras flit around the room for close-ups, while cameramen and women with heavy-duty equipment get the distance shots. Hopefully, you haven't got an issue with stage fright.
[Evening - The show]
And when all is said and done, and the last dishes have been cooked, it's time for the actual show. There is some time between the actual cooking and this part of the evening, during which contestants have a chance to change their clothing and freshen up, but before too long, the mansion's doors open to the guests, who are herded by the cheerful hosts to an enormous hall.
The hall itself is set up with all manner of comforts. There are some small tables and chairs for anyone who wants to sit down for a while. Long tables line the sides of the room, absolutely laden with all manner of refreshments. There is even a special table set aside where the dishes the contestants made (at least the ones that made it to this part of the evening) are displayed and ready for tasting.
The schedule for the night is rather straightforward.
After some meet-and-greet and time for every last guest to arrive, the day's events (cut and edited by a very exhausted camera crew) will be projected onto a huge screen for all to enjoy. The votes will be tallied afterward and awards and prizes will be handed out. The rest of the evening will give the winners a chance to celebrate, the losers a chance to commiserate, and everybody else to clear the buffet of everything edible.
Where: Riegfried and Soy's mansion
When: January 15th; day time for the cooking part, evening for the mingle part.
Summary: Come one, come all to the newest contest hosted by Riegfried and Soy. Today's theme: cooking!
[Daytime - The kitchens]
Throughout the day, the kitchens will be open to all contestants, though any casual onlookers --human, pokemon, or otherwise-- will be shooed out to prevent any cheating.
Each contestant will be directed to a gleaming counter, where they will be able to find everything from your basic whisk and spatula to gleaming kitchen machinery fancy enough to make any cook feel faint with envy. Each counter comes complete with a small fridge (should you need to chill any of your ingredients), an oven, a stove, a microwave -- really, anything you can imagine and it is there. Riegfried and Soy clearly didn't want anyone to run into the issue of not having the right equipment for the job.
At the back of the room are the fridges: tall, imposing fridges made of gleaming metal stocked full of every sort of ingredient you could possibly think of. And next to the fridges, contestants can find rows and rows of shelves, each nearly bowing under the weight of the products placed on them -- from fresh fruit, to spices, to rice and noodles. If you need it, you can find it.
Riegfried and Soy will be flitting around the room like a pair of extravagant Butterfrees, happy to engage contestants in small interviews. Everything for the camera, baby! Because those are also there; they are clearly trying to stay out of everybody's way, but small, Rotom-powered cameras flit around the room for close-ups, while cameramen and women with heavy-duty equipment get the distance shots. Hopefully, you haven't got an issue with stage fright.
[Evening - The show]
And when all is said and done, and the last dishes have been cooked, it's time for the actual show. There is some time between the actual cooking and this part of the evening, during which contestants have a chance to change their clothing and freshen up, but before too long, the mansion's doors open to the guests, who are herded by the cheerful hosts to an enormous hall.
The hall itself is set up with all manner of comforts. There are some small tables and chairs for anyone who wants to sit down for a while. Long tables line the sides of the room, absolutely laden with all manner of refreshments. There is even a special table set aside where the dishes the contestants made (at least the ones that made it to this part of the evening) are displayed and ready for tasting.
The schedule for the night is rather straightforward.
After some meet-and-greet and time for every last guest to arrive, the day's events (cut and edited by a very exhausted camera crew) will be projected onto a huge screen for all to enjoy. The votes will be tallied afterward and awards and prizes will be handed out. The rest of the evening will give the winners a chance to celebrate, the losers a chance to commiserate, and everybody else to clear the buffet of everything edible.
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[For the present, he just focuses on what Claude is saying, and his fortunately good reaction to the bread.]
It is the second, actually... I do not believe I managed to get the first batch correct, at least in terms of what other people would like. [So him and his rat just ate the heck out of that.] Since our hosts have provided us with so much food that I have never seen or handled before, I thought I could experiment leisurely, and make sure that I created something good enough.
I believe that for myself... Well, I am not skilled for on-the-fly cooking. I will perhaps need that much time.
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[Anyway. Anyway.]
I have never had anything particularly spicy, so I suppose this would be my first experience with it.
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There seems to be all kind of food variety here, though! It's still not exactly the Almyran cuisine I know, but it's a lot closer.
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[Dimitri keeps a hold of the tray with the different other types of fried bread, and glances out to the rest of the kitchen.]
So many different varieties of food... That must mean this world has access to all sorts of different lands, different ideas. And if weapons are barred here... Perhaps, even despite the bandit attempts and the other general failures which trail after people no matter where, this place has found a kind of peace that allows for such easy and happy trading.
....But I am getting ahead of myself. I would not mind trying your recipe, when it has gotten to a point where it can be tried.
[Dimitri is just thinking of texture here. Spice isn't something he's even remotely thinking of.]
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Still, this place isn't completely ideal. Those of us from different worlds haven't exactly been able to bring a lot of our culture here with us. I want people from all different walks of life to mix and appreciate each other, but that shouldn't mean a lack of expression for individual cultures - it should be a mingling of them. It's obviously a byproduct of the weird way this place works, but seeing how there really seems to be a whole lot of different foods, ideas, and influences here when there's really only one overall mingled culture...it helps me consider the kinds of things I want to avoid or emphasize in the implementing of my dream. I want people and cultures to mingle, not blend together until you lose the differences in homogeneity.
[Claude will be happy to find that a lot of of the homogeneity he's currently seeing is regional, and that once he gets to Kanto and Sevii there's more variety. For now, though, he's mostly seeing a monoculture.]
...but you're right, why are we talking about all this heavy stuff now? [He finishes off the last of his current piece of fried bread with a last big bite.] Was there any other varieties of bread you made that you want me to try before I get back to cooking? That curry's not going to finish itself.
[If it were anyone other than Dimitri, he'd hesitate to recommend trying his curry. He's...aware it's not going great. But Dimitri can't really taste things, so how bad can he find it? Aside from the burn of the spice, of course, but Claude already warned him about that and he seems ready to try it anyhow.]
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[Later, later. For now, he glances down at his offerings, and holds up the sweet variant.]
Just this - I would like to know that the sweetness is at a decent enough level. Hob has a slight sweet tooth, so I am worried it may be a little overboard, going off of only her impressions.
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Anyway, I'm happy to try anything you guys have made. [He takes the sweet bread, but doesn't take a bite yet - first, he's curious.] So what'd you put into this one to give it its sweetness? [It was easier to guess with the savory stuff.]
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I would like to try more ideas along this vein. [He wishes Mercedes were here, she would know...]
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[Claude may have endured entire passionate rants from Lysithea about how could Felix possibly NOT APPRECIATE THE GLORIOUSNESS OF SWEETS, how could anyone have such POOR TASTE, surely his mouth must be DEFECTIVE - ]
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[They've always seemed like a waste on him, really, unless they were freshly baked, and that only applies for some sweet things.]