If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that I go quiet sometimes. Life gets full, the kitchen gets busy, and the blog gets neglected in favor of actually cooking things and going on walks and, apparently, picking up rocks.
I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. Picking up rocks, I mean. And beans. And salt. And various other small beautiful things that seem to accumulate in my pockets whether I intend them to or not.
The thing is, all of that foraging and collecting has been feeding something I’ve been quietly building over on Patreon — a project called Fondue & Flagons: The Adventurer’s Cookbook, which is exactly what it sounds like and also somehow more than that. It’s a fantasy cookbook and worldbuilding sourcebook, and it has characters now, and stories, and recently it has started generating actual physical mail.
This past week I sent out the first round of Field Samples to my Patreon supporters: an assortment of little glassine envelopes of Herkimer diamonds, ramp salt, and runner beans, tucked in with a field notes card from a halfling scholar named Nibs and his considerably more chaotic dwarven traveling companion, Poppy. It is, I think, one of the most genuinely fun things I’ve made in a long time.
There’s more coming — more mailings, more stories, more small beautiful things finding their way to people who will know what to do with them. You can follow along as I build an immersive cookbook from scratch, explore the world with Poppy and Nibs, and If that sounds like your kind of adventure, the door is open.
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New things are happening over there more often than they’re happening here, at least for now. Come join us!