fandomhigh | Cuisines of Earth, Tuesday

Class had been ~~handwavily~~ instructed to meet at Portalocity, and Hannibal waited until everyone was there before he nodded, smiled, and began.

"Welcome, everybody. We will be meeting here for each class unless I inform you otherwise, and then we will be heading out to eat somewhere, a different place every week, so that you will hopefully get a good idea of the breadth of culinary styles Earth has to offer."

He waved them through the portal and waited until they were all there before resuming. "Today we will be eating in New York. It's a large city in the country Fandom is attached to, and has a long history of immigration, and thus a large variety of cuisines. We will be eating at Upland, which features enough of a selection that everybody should be able to find something to eat. The local language is English, or whatever it is you call the language we're currently speaking, so if you have any questions, you can ask the staff directly."

He led the way in and they were shown to a table. "While we wait for our food, please introduce yourselves. In addition to your name, I would like to know if there are any foods you would like to try, and I will also need to know if you have any allergies, food aversions, or religious or philosophical restrictions on your diet."

He smiled. "I am Doctor Hannibal Lecter, I am from a version of modern Earth, and there is very little I won't eat, though I do prefer my food without too many processed chemicals in it." He nodded at the person next to him.

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Ready to eat!

Liberty Hazlett

Kurt Wagner

Liz Sherman

Guillermo de la Cruz

Josephine Jones

John Constantine

Alara Kitan

Nell Ingram

Enjoy the restaurant, read the menu, people watch!

Excuse Libby a moment to just sort of marvel at the fact that she was in New York City right now!

Since they'd taken a portal and were in the restaurant, she supposed it didn't hit quite as hard as if they had taken a more conventional way to get there, but still! She was kind of in awe of that fact and the portal part of it just made it all that much more surreal. She just sort of kept shaking her head a little bit and tried to focus on finding something new and different and interesting on the menu to try so that she didn't just look like she was gawking too much.

Granted, most of the stuff on the menu was only going to make her gawk, too, especially since she wasn't even sure she knew what half this stuff even was!

Kurt was definitely a bit wide-eyed looking around. He had been in the city before, but that was quite a while ago when his family had left Germany when he was young. He remembers bits and piece, but an approximately 12 year old Kurt admittedly had a lot on his mind and peaking his interest about that time. So he was taking it all in and seeing what he remembered from the city.

Order, eat, and give your introduction (not necessarily in that order). Name, where you're from, if there's anything you'd like to try, and any dietary restrictions.

"I'm Kurt Wagner. I'm from another alternate version of earth now. It's been a bit of a jump time wise but things don't seem that much different for the most part." Kurt paused and gave a shy grin as he continued. "As far as food goes, there's not much I don't like. Not aware of any dietary needs or anything like that. I do have to eat often and at times a good bit depending how active I am because of my metabolism. But otherwise, nothing to worry about, and I am excited to try new foods and recipes!"

"It's good to see you again, Kurt," Hannibal said. "We should have plenty of new things for you to try."

Libby had decided to order the spaghetti puttanesca, because she liked spaghetti, and thought it sounded like it would be...interesting with anchovies and fish, of all things! She was hoping she wasn't going to regret it, but she also figured trying new things was sort of the point, even if she didn't end up liking it. Because then she would know!

"My name's Liberty Hazlett," she offered, feeling a little more conscious of her rural drawl in this nice fancy restaurant in this big fancy city. "But most people just call me Libby. I'm from Tennessee, right here in the USA, and I grew up with a lot of simple foods, I guess, though I've probably eaten quite a few things that other people might consider a bit...different."

There was a reason why she was sometimes a bit uncomfortable around the squirrels on the island, and it had nothing to do with their voyeuristic tendencies.

"That said, I don't think I have any allergies, and I'm pretty open to trying all sorts of new things. I don't usually like a lot of sweets, though, which I know is kind of strange, but we try not to have too much sugar back home." She smiled faintly. "The Littles are plenty rambunctious enough as it is without the help, really."

Plus, sweets and sugary things tended to cost more when that money could be stretched in far better ways.

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"Welcome, Libby." Hannibal smiled at her. "I hope you'll get to try some new things this term. And I'm not terribly interested in sweets, either, so there will be plenty of other things."

“I’m Liz Sherman,” Liz said, feeling a little shy being in a class with her psychiatrist when she was also staying with him, “I’m from Newark, New Jersey and um…well I don’t like vanilla ice cream but um..I guess I do have a few dietary restrictions now that I’m pregnant,” it felt weird admitting that to the class in general but she figured she wouldn’t be able to hide it for that much longer.

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"Welcome, Liz. It's been a while." Hannibal grinned. "I'll be sure to mention to you if there are things you shouldn't eat where we go. I hope you enjoy our outings."

Guillermo decided to order Lobster Cavatelli to try, “I’m Guillermo de la Cruz, “ he said with his customary awkward wave, “I’m from New York - the Bronx to be exact and I love food of all kinds, I’m always willing to try different foods,”

"It's good to see you, Guillermo. I hope you enjoy the things we can try," Hannibal said.

There was a lot of different foods and Jo wasn’t entirely sure what she wanted, “I’m Josephine Jones, Jo,” she said with a smile, “I’m from South West England, 1953 and there’s still a lot of foods that I haven’t tried,” she admitted, “but I don’t think I have any dietary restrictions,”

"Welcome, Jo." Hannibal nodded and smiled at her. "Hopefully we will be able to broaden your culinary horizons."

"I'm Nell Ingram and I'm willing to try pretty much anything at least once. No dietary restrictions that I know of." She looked over at Libby. "I'm from Tennessee as well and also grew up with pretty simple foods."

"Welcome, Nell," Hannibal said. "I hope the two of you can encourage each other to try new things. And if there's something you've never tried that you would like to, please let me know."

She nodded. "I'm sure I'll find lots of new and interesting things to try."

He's here!

I hate this class; it always makes me hungry.

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