International Cuisine and Grocery Run

[sharp_man]

Hannibal met the students at Portalocity and nodded at them. "Good afternoon. As this is the first week, we will be doing introductions. As part of the purpose of this class is to leave the island, we will be doing them in the restaurant."

He waved them through the portal and onto a street outside a restaurant. "Welcome to Paris. Le Grand Véfour is a restaurant that has been here for several centuries, and which looks out over the gardens of the Palais Royal. The food is a mixture of traditional and modern French. Please ask any questions you may have; the local language is French, but many of the servers will speak English, and I am fluent in French. Once we have eaten, we will be visiting La Grand Epicerie for shopping. Please let me know if there is anything specific you would like to purchase, and we can find it."

He led them into the restaurant.

Comments

Re: Introduce yourselves!

[intotheout]

"Gratuity Tucci," Tip said. "Most people call me Tip." And yeah, she was aware that there was a certain . . . appropriateness to her name for this class. "I'll eat pretty much anything that, you know, is consumable by standard human people." She'd gotten used to adding that last part after growing up with Boov running around munching on dental floss and pool chemicals. "As for a wishlist . . . I'm down to try lots of different stuff. But if we could get some African cuisine in? At least one?"

More than that would be amazing, since, you know, it's an entire continent, but she knew better than to expect more than maybe a trip to Ethiopia here. It was only a summer workshop, after all.

Re: Introduce yourselves!

[sharp_man]

"Welcome, Tip." The nickname was amusing, but it would be rude to say so, so Hannibal didn't. "I'm pleased to hear you're adventurous. We have visited Ethiopia and Morocco in the past; are there other countries you might be interested in as well?"

Re: Introduce yourselves!

[intotheout]

“Well, something sub-Saharan would be cool. Maybe West African, like from Ghana? Or Southern African. Or Malagasy — that’s from Madagascar. There’s . . . kind of a lot of options. It being a big continent and all.”

Re: Introduce yourselves!

[sharp_man]

"Well," Hannibal said, "we have seven weeks and only six continents with restaurants; I'm certain we can manage one or two of those."