But in my life I never meant to cause no harm

[inaurate]

Who: Claude (inaurate) & You!
What: Claude's hosting his own birthday party a multi-cultural feast and everyone's invited! If you would like your character to contribute a recipe, please see the top-level within to do that!
When: The evening of July 24th (forward-dated) but this will also cover prep.
Where: The Festival Green (basically dead center of the island/town, you can't miss it!)
Warning(s): Will update if any apply.

There is a notice about the event posted to the community bulletin board in early July. Below it is a small wooden box with an open slot in the top.

Those who Claude knows personally will also receive an individual invitation with the same information.

On the evening of the 24th this month, there will be a feast held in the Festival Green, and all are welcome to attend! I invite everyone to submit a recipe from their home, and I will do my best to recreate them here. If it will require off-world ingredients, please get it in sooner so I can make arrangements with everyone's favorite skeleton pirate merchant. (Donations of citrus fruit for payment to our dear captain are appreciated but not necessary.)

Along with plenty of food and drink, the musical stylings of Cormac and the Banshees will be featured, and there will be bonfire jumping after nightfall.

You are also welcome to bring your own dish if you so wish!

Looking forward to spending an evening feasting with you all!
~ Claude von Riegan

Comments

[glassaxolotl]

For the time being, Dedue has been crashing at the farmhouse with Dimitri. However, it has become increasingly clear that they do not actually have the space for him. Moreover, sharing the kitchen there has been a tense endeavor, as Darcy has their system and Dedue has opinions about their system, leading to various squabbles. As a result, Dedue has elected to prepare his dishes for the event at the rented space in the Oak & Iron.

Dedue gives a polite nod of greeting to Claude as he passes by. He starts setting up to make the dough that will be used in his curry dish. It’s a form of bread that is unique to Duscur, and he hasn’t made it in a while, but muscle memory quickly gets him back to speed.

Dedue is very pleasantly surprised that Claude is arranging this event. He can’t imagine Claude from the Academy doing such a thing. Dedue has always had theories about Claude, but he figured it would be better for both of them if he kept such thoughts to himself. Still, he can’t help but let some of it percolate in his mind now. He doesn’t imagine Claude’s experience of Garreg Mach was much like his, based on their personalities and positions in society, but part of him wonders what the monastery was like from Claude’s perspective, and if there might have been anything in common between them after all, beneath the silence.

[inaurate]

During his Academy days, even the post-mock-battle feast for the Battle of the Eagle and Lion had felt monumental, all three Houses coming together to share in a meal-- he still thinks back on it with bittersweet fondness. While this doesn't serve to soothe hurt feelings after a loss or to celebrate a victory, the scope of it feels much wider-- and if there are foods from lands none of them have ever heard of before coming here, it hopefully won't be so noticeable that some of Claude's own dishes are very much not Fodlan cuisine.

He looks up from his mixing bowl when Dedue comes in, shooting him a quick smile and a jaunty two-fingered wave with a very flour-covered hand before turning back to his recipe for saghert and cream. His hands aren't the only thing covered in evidence of his cooking and baking ventures so far-- somehow he's managed to get flour in his hair too. He's not really into baked sweets, but Lorenz had requested it and he's determined to make every single recipe request to the best of his ability. So, surprisingly, he doesn't immediately try to engage Dedue in conversation-- though he is very curious about what the man is making and if it's for the feast (he really hopes so).

That doesn't mean Claude doesn't talk, though-- Dedue is an unobtrusive presence and he's got a lot to do and even more on his mind, so it's only a few minutes later that he's back to muttering thoughts out loud, looking down at a jar of cinnamon. "What if I added some to the currant reduction... that might be good."

(Let’s pretend I know anything about baking)

[glassaxolotl]

“If that is the saghert and cream, there should already be cinnamon in the crust. You do not wish to overpower the flavor,” Dedue warns from his part of the kitchen.