Bowls Of New Potatoes

Vicariously enjoyed meals can be one of the pleasures of reading fiction  - depending on who wrote it.

Poul Anderson's Nicholas van Rijn is a gourmet. See:

Dinner At The Winged Cross...
What Van Rijn Eats During Business Meetings
In The Saturn Room...

Anderson's Chives is a chef. See:

Open Sandwiches
Captain's Dinner
In The Hooligan

Chives' employer, Dominic Flandry, learned to dine well earlier in life. See:

From The Lavishly Stocked...
Two Rijstaffels

Visitors to Poul and Karen Anderson's Ys ate well. See:

Faith, Food And Freedom

However, SM Stirling surpasses Poul Anderson in two respects: alternative histories and food. Most of the posts on our Food Thread are Stirlingian, not Andersonian.

Would you eat the flesh of a man-sized biped or might that feel like getting a bit too close to home? It might not taste like "long pig." In fact, it wouldn't if the animal were reptilian rather than mammalian:

the white meat of a local, man-sized, sheep-headed, slightly feathered, grazing sauroid baked with bacon in an earth-oven;
new potatoes in butter;
fresh flatbread;
olives;
green salad;
fruit;
cheese;
local wine -

- plundered or bought with plundered goods.
- The Hammer, CHAPTER EIGHT, p. 438.

I would manage quite well on the potatoes, bread, salad, fruit and cheese, thank you, sir.