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historianinthekitchenblog · 1 month

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Les Club des Chefs des Chefs: cooking for heads of state

"Les Club des Chefs des Chefs" is an exclusive and unique organization that brings together the personal chefs of heads of state from around the world. Founded in 1977 by Gilles Bragard, a French businessman and passionate gastronome, the club provides a platform for the private chefs who cater to the culinary needs of presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs.

The club's primary mission is to develop camaraderie and exchange among these elite chefs, creating a forum for them to share their experiences, challenges, and innovative culinary techniques. The gatherings offer a rare opportunity for these professionals to connect on a personal and professional level, transcending the boundaries of politics through their shared love for gastronomy.

Members of the Club des Chefs des Chefs meet annually in various global locations, hosting each other in their respective countries. These meetings provide a unique cultural exchange, allowing chefs to explore local cuisines and ingredients while forging bonds with their international counterparts. The chefs often collaborate on special events, creating extraordinary dining experiences that display the diversity of global culinary traditions.

In addition to fostering camaraderie, the club also engages in charitable activities. The chefs frequently participate in events and initiatives aimed at promoting social causes and use their culinary skills for the greater good.

The club's exclusivity adds to its mystique, as membership is reserved for the personal chefs of heads of state. This select group ensures a level of confidentiality and discretion, allowing members to freely share their experiences without concerns about political sensitivities.

The Club des Chefs des Chefs serves as an example to the universal language of food, transcending political boundaries and developing connections among those who play a crucial role in shaping the gastronomic preferences of world leaders. It stands as a symbol of the power of culinary diplomacy, displaying how a shared passion for food can bring people together, even in the highest circles of global governance.

#gastrodiplomacy #food history #cuisine #drink history #softpower #clubdeschefsdeschefs #culinairydiplomacy #chefs #cooking

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meadowslark · 1 year

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( Then-U.S. President Richard Nixon holds his chopsticks as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Shanghai Communist Party leader Chang Chun-chiao reach in front of him for food at a banquet in China in 1972.BETTMANN/GETTY ARCHIVE)

How Countries Use Food to Win Friends and Influence People

The growing number of gastrodiplomacy initiatives suggests that the value of food in diplomatic relations has become evident to many governments beyond its advantage in entertaining foreign guests. National authorities can use it to make a country more visible in an international landscape where food enthusiasts and professionals are increasingly drawn to—and even obsessed by—uniqueness, originality, and authenticity, partly as a reaction to the uniformity that many feel comes with globalization. Culinary diplomacy campaigns are particularly interesting for midsize countries that, due to their limited political or economic power, would otherwise have a hard time getting themselves noticed on the global stage. Food is supposed to allow such countries to improve the way international audiences perceive them. The marketing practice of branding is applied to international relations, with the goal of making a country more visible through easily recognizable features. The targets of such strategies are not only other governments but also foreign consumers, companies, and investors.

The emergence of gastrodiplomacy initiatives is, in itself, a direct consequence of food globalization, which allows ingredients, products, ideas, and culinary professionals to effortlessly circulate around the world. Heavily relying on social media and the internet, today’s gastrodiplomacy is particularly geared toward cosmopolitan foodies who share common values and predictable taste categories across borders, have the financial means and the interest to buy imported products, and can travel abroad. Gastrodiplomacy can also contribute to creating a sense of unity and national pride around food inside the countries that engage in it. It can even ideologically leverage nostalgia to smooth out domestic tensions, harking back to the good old times before modernity and globalization—like South Korea did with its idealization of the Joseon court and eternal, unchanging kimchi.

#foreign policy magazine #fabio parasecoli #diplomacy #food #gastrodiplomacy

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choicesficwriterscreations · 6 months

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November Creator of the Month: Lizzybeth1986

Each month CFWC highlights one of our talented fanfic writers, and this month’s writer of the month is @lizzybeth1986 We hope you will enjoy learning more about them and their work below! The writer is selected at random. More info can be found on the navigation page.

Quick Links:

Tumblr Blog: Blog Masterlist

How do you want to be known on Tumblr?

Lizzy, absolutely 😁

*Center art by @sazanes

More below...

When did you start playing Choices? What was the first book you played?

I started playing mid 2017, I think. I played the flagship books (TF, TCaTF, MW), and def preferred TF at the time.

When and why did you join Choices fandom?

I joined the Tumblr fandom in 2017, around the time of the TRR finale. Mostly because the Liam hate at the time was intense and I wanted to write metas about why Liam was, in fact, not “a dick who betrayed the MC” 😂

I did have a Tumblr account before that (made it in 2015 to follow Bollywood film posts), but never actually used it.

How did you pick your blog name?

I was lazy af so it was my middle name plus my birth year haha

Pull up the first post in your archive, and tell us about it!

I started out with a couple reblogs, but my first actual post was about the romance points mechanism in TRR1. There was a point in the middle of the book where one nice word to Drake would give you an automatic romance point, and I was like, “Huh??? Either treat him like shit or risk him catching feels for me? Is that how it is???”. Thankfully, that stopped after two chapters. After that, I did an essay series analyzing Liam’s actions in the finale called “The Crown, The King and The Flame.” Romance Points Post The Crown and the Flame

How long have you been writing fanfiction?

Almost 6 years now! I started doing Liam fics around the beginning of TRR2.

What is your favorite Choices book, and what is your favorite Choices book to write about?

I’m the most invested in TRR and PM, but between the two I’d probably say PM is my fave book overall. But yeah, my favourite book to write about would be TRR, because Liam, Hana and Kiara are such fantastic characters to write about! (Hayden and Sloane, too, but I’m still in the process of getting comfortable writing them).

Share the first fanfic you wrote with us. Do you still like it, or would you change it if you were writing it today?

It was Keychains, my two part fic series featuring my MC and Liam. It was set around the time the MC was waiting in the airport in TRR2, just before Maxwell and Bertrand intervene. It had a follow up with Liam’s PoV too.

I really like it. It included some really good hc’s I made at the time, like Esther buying an apple keychain to represent Cordonia at the same time, and Liam calling her his wife in Greek and Esther not realizing what the phrase meant. I thought the pathos and slight humour was quite well-done. I can’t think of much I would want to change in the story.

Keychains 1 Keychains 2

What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

As a series – Eleanor’s Kitchen! It’s ongoing, and it’s a joy to write. I love exploring food from a cultural lens, and since Cordonia was a fictional country, I could explore a variety of ethnicities and food cultures. Liam had a literal diamond scene that explored gastrodiplomacy, and I wanted to explore his childhood and Eleanor’s friendships too.

Individually – I would say my Kiara fic “An Ear to the Ground”. Kiara is a delightful character and exploring the social season through her eyes was a real journey! I also love “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” which explores the early days of the Sloane & Hayden friendship. I used asterisms and constellations to symbolize moments in their friendship.

Eleanor's Kitchen An Ear to the Ground The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Do you have a fic that you didn’t expect to be well received, but it was? What about one you expected to be but found could use a little more love?

Cordonian Waltz was definitely a surprise in terms of reception!! It was written in the style of headcanons I was seeing at the time, and I wrote it in second person. It became my most widely-read fanfic very fast, and every once in a while it would experience a major surge in readership. I enjoyed writing it and thought it was a lovely, romantic piece, but I really wasn’t expecting it to finally have 250+ reblogs out of it, and people coming and telling me this was the fic that got them into Liam x MC in the first place. I find that deeply gratifying 😍

There’s a lot of fics that I feel need more engagement and appreciation, but I can understand that those characters also don’t exactly get much of an audience. My entire PM set comes under this category; they typically get low readership. I think my Hana and Kiara fics too could do with more of an audience.

@twinkleallnight once told me that when she reads my stuff, she usually takes a long time just to ruminate on the story, and I like to believe that often, that’s why the engagement isn’t always immediate. Which I like too!! I like that some of my stuff can make people stop and think, and I like to believe that over time, the work will have its own impact.

Cordonian Waltz PM Set

If you could write only angst, fluff, or smut for the rest of your writing life, which would it be and why?

Probably fluff but with a lot of observation and sometimes somber reflections. I’m not that great with angst…and I’ve never actually tried smut? But maybe one day 😄

Do you ever recognize yourself in any of your MCs or in your writing?

Yes! Some of my MCs are v different from me but I always incorporate something from my life experiences in them. Like Esther taking photos of the sunset or Basil not being science oriented but still having an interest in space.

Character wise I find I put a lot of myself into a lot of the characters I write. Notably, Liam, Hana, Kiara, certain Haydens and Sloane. Liam’s love for learning, different aspects of Hana and Kiara’s experiences as queer women, Sloane’s experiences as a neurodivergent woman, and especially my Scholar!Hayden’s (Iris) observations. I tend to incorporate a lot of my feelings and experiences more into certain canonical characters than in MCs.

What element of writing do you struggle with most?

Dialogue, I think. Especially when it’s a character I don’t relate to that much. But also sometimes when it’s a character I love but am only starting to write because then I really overthink it!

Do you have any neglected work you really want to finish?

Hmm…probably neglected wouldn’t be the word I’d use…I just take a very long time to kickstart them 😂

But yeah, definitely my Petals and Thornes series? That’s the fic series I’m doing for Hana x Kiara, that is supposed to explore TRR2 and 3 from their PoV (with significant changes). So far I’ve only been able to do some one-shots and hcs in that universe, but I do want to start the actual series soon!

I have some essay series’ I’d love to work on too! My Hana essay series which has two essays left, The Hayden Young Project, and a possible series on the alternative Lis of TRR!

Petals and Thornes Hana Lee: A Study in Erasure

If someone you know in real life (who isn’t involved in fandoms) asked to read your work, would you let them? If yes, what would you recommend they read first?

Hmm. A few people have asked me, actually, and while I’m not fully opposed to showing them I’ll probably take some time before I do show my work. I’ll probably overthink how much will be understandable to a reader who doesn’t have the context of the source, and what they may not understand.

What to show them first? I’m not sure! Maybe the smaller ones first, like Cordonian Waltz. Or my RCD fic Snowstorms, because it doesn’t have more than 2-3 canon characters featuring and I do talk a little about being a closeted queer teen figuring out their sexuality through cinema, which is an overall relatable experience to some! Snowstorms

Are there any writers (published authors and/or fanfic writers) who influenced your writing?

In my early years I used to emulate Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s style. Much of her work that I read as a teen was pretty flowery, sometimes bordering on purple prose, and I really loved that style and tried to go that way. But now I think a variety of writers from different genres inform my writing. In terms of published authors, Jhumpa Lahiri, Helen Hoang, and non-fiction ones like Rukmini Pande, Ruby Hammad and Mikki Kendall.

In Choices fic, @callmetippytumbles for sure – a lot of the questions she was tackling with her MC in her Home series served as inspiration for some of the ideas I’ve been having in mind for Petals and Thornes. @thefirstcourtesan is a great writing buddy to have, too, and she has a knack for saying a lot in very few words! There’s also my amazing group of friends (shoutout to @cassiopeiacorvus, @thecapturedafrique, @mand-delemonde, and @beyonceswigs, as well as @twinkleallnight , @dcbbw @mariemarieohcontrary , @choicesfrog, @grapecaseschoices and @ohsnapitzlovehacker…the discussions are so good and leave some much to think about afterward 💖💖). All these discussions ALWAYS fuel my ideas and make me think out of the box.

I’ve also recently started writing polyamorous characters and relationships, and @angelasscribbles stories and resources have been such a great help in navigating that!

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@angelasscribbles Poly Resources

Which one of your stories would you most like to see as a movie/series?

Haha! I’ve not even started the proper series yet but I think Petals and Thornes? But besides that maybe Eleanor’s Kitchen may work as a series idk 😄

Do you write original fiction?

I do try! I’ve done a few short stories but before I started fanfic, I did a lot of spoken word poetry and that was fun.

What other hobbies do you have?

Reading, watching video essays, spending months on hyperfixations 😂 and a little cooking. My kid’s gotten into craft recently and has succeeded in taking me down that rabbit hole too haha.

I used to be into making fruit wines but have gotten inconsistent with that over the years.

What’s your favorite emoji?

Because I have a huuuge thing for nerds – this one: 🤓

BONUS – tell us anything you’d like (if you want to).

A story my mum often tells about how I got into writing, began with some good old-fashioned sibling rivalry. Apparently as a child I was notorious for writing things on the walls of our house. One day my older brother got a hardbound royal-blue covered notebook to write in, with gold lettering on the cover…and I got instantly jealous that I didn’t get one (I was 6 or 7 and already fond of telling stories). When I complained my mum made me a deal – she would get me the same notebook…IF I stopped writing on the walls and began writing in that instead 😂 It worked. My mother is a smart woman.

I love spoilers!! I will read the end of a novel I’m reading and then go back and read the rest. Sometimes I even read books all the way backwards lol.

I love romance, and my favorite tropes include second-chance romance and mutual pining while believing the other person will never love you back! Because, at heart, I’m a dramatic bitch.

#choices fic writers creations #cfwc creator of the month #the royal romance #perfect match #lizzybeth1986 #playchoices #playchoices fanfic

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Often described as the world’s largest Buddhist monument, Borobudur rises from the jungles of central Java: a nine-leveled step pyramid decorated with hundreds of Buddha statues and more than 2,000 carved stone relief panels. Completed in 835 AD by Buddhist monarchs who were repurposing an earlier Hindu structure, Borobudur was erected as “a testament to the greatness of Buddhism and the king who built it,” says religion scholar and Borobudur expert Uday Dokras.

Though Buddhists make up less than one percent of Indonesia’s population today, Borobudur still functions as a holy site of pilgrimage, as well as a popular tourist destination. But for the Indonesian Gastronomy Community (IGC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating Indonesian food culture, Borobudur is “not just a temple that people can visit,” says IGC chair Ria Musiawan. The structure’s meticulous relief carvings, which depict scenes of daily life for all levels of ninth-century Javanese society, provide a vital source of information about the people who created it. Borobudur can tell us how the inhabitants of Java’s ancient Mataram kingdom lived, worked, worshiped, and—as the IGC demonstrated in an event series that ended in 2023—ate.

The IGC sees food as a way to unite Indonesians, but the organization also considers international gastrodiplomacy as a part of their mission. Globally, Indonesian food is less well-known than other Southeast Asian cuisines, but the country’s government has recently made efforts to boost its reputation, declaring not one, but five official national dishes in 2018. To promote Indonesian cuisine, the IGC organizes online and in-person events based around both modern and historical Indonesian food. In 2022, they launched an educational series entitled Gastronosia: From Borobudur to the World. The first event in the series was a virtual talk, but subsequent dates included in-person dinners, with a menu inspired by the reliefs of Borobudur and written inscriptions from contemporary Javanese sites.

In collaboration with Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other partner organizations, the first meal in the Gastronosia series was, fittingly, held at Borobudur, with a small group of guests. The largest event, which hosted 100 guests at the National Museum in Jakarta, aimed to recreate a type of ancient royal feast known as a Mahamangsa in Old Javanese, meaning “the food of kings.” The IGC’s Mahamangsa appeared alongside a multimedia museum exhibition, with video screens depicting the art of ancient Mataram that inspired the menu and displays of historical cooking tools, such as woven baskets for winnowing and steaming rice. Another event, held at Kembang Goela Restaurant, featured more than 50 international ambassadors and diplomats invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But how does one translate 1,000-year-old stone carvings into a modern menu that’s not only historically accurate, but appetizing? “We have to have this very wide imagination,” says Musiawan. “You only see the relief [depicting] the food…but you cannot find out how it tastes.” The IGC designed and tested a Gastronosia menu with the help of Chef Sumartoyo of Bale Raos Restaurant in Yogyakarta, and Riris Purbasari, an archaeologist from the Central Java Province Cultural Heritage Preservation Center, who had been researching the food of Borobudur’s reliefs since 2017.

The range of human activities depicted in the reliefs of Borobudur is so wide that it has inspired research in areas of study stretching from music to weaponry. There have even been seaworthy reconstructions based on the “Borobudur Ships” displayed on the site’s lower levels, exquisitely rendered vessels like the ones that facilitated trade in ancient Southeast Asia. So it’s no surprise that Borobudur has no shortage of depictions of food-related scenes, from village agricultural labor, to the splendor of a royal Mahamangsa, to a bustling urban marketplace. Baskets of tropical fruit, nets full of fish, and even some modern Indonesian dishes are recognizable in the reliefs, such as tumpeng, a tall cone of rice surrounded by side dishes, which is still prepared for special occasions. Some images are allegories for Buddhist concepts, providing what Borobudur archaeologist John Mikic called “a visual aid for teaching a gentle philosophy of life." Uday Dokras suggests that these diverse scenes might have been chosen to help ancient visitors “identify with their own life,” making the monument’s unique religious messaging relatable. The reliefs illustrate ascending levels of enlightenment, so that visitors walk the path of life outlined by the Buddha’s teachings: from a turbulent world ruled by earthly desires at the lowest level, to tranquil nirvana at the summit.

Musiawan says that the IGC research team combined information from Borobudur with inscriptions from other Javanese sites of the same era that referenced royal banquets. While Borobudur’s reliefs show activities like farming, hunting, fishing, and dining, fine details of the food on plates or in baskets can be difficult to make out, especially since the painted plaster that originally covered the stone has long-since faded. Ninth-century court records etched into copper sheets or stone for posterity—some accidentally uncovered by modern construction projects—helped fill in the blanks when it came to what exactly people were eating. These inscriptions describe the royal banquets of ancient Mataram as huge events: One that served as a key inspiration for the IGC featured 57 sacks of rice, six water buffalo, and 100 chickens. There are no known written recipes from the era, but some writings provide enough detail for dishes to be approximated, such as freshwater eel “grilled with sweet spices” or ground buffalo meatballs seasoned with “a touch of sweetness,” in the words of the inscriptions, both of which were served at Gastronosia events.

Sugar appears to have been an important component in ancient Mataram’s royal feasts: A survey of food mentions across Old Javanese royal inscriptions revealed 34 kinds of sweets out of 107 named dishes. Gastronosia’s Mahamangsa ended with dwadal, a sticky palm-sugar toffee known as dodol in modern Indonesian, and an array of tropical fruits native to Java such as jackfruit and durian. Other dishes recreated by the IGC included catfish stewed in coconut milk, stir-fried banana-tree core, and kinca, an ancient alcohol made from fermented tamarind, which was offered alongside juice from the lychee-like toddy palm fruit as an alcohol-free option.

Musiawan describes the hunting of animals such as deer, boar, and water buffalo as an important source of meat in ninth-century Java. Domestic cattle were not eaten, she explains, because the people of ancient Mataram “believed that cows have religious value.” While Gastronosia’s events served wild game and foraged wild greens, rice also featured prominently, a key staple in Mataram that forms the subject of several of Borobudur’s reliefs. It was the mastery of rice cultivation that allowed Mataram to support a large population and become a regional power in ninth-century Southeast Asia. Rice’s importance as a staple crop also led to its inclusion in religious rituals; Dokras explains that in many regions of Asia, rice is still an essential component of the Buddhist temple offerings known as prasad.

The indigenous Southeast Asian ingredients used in Gastronosia’s Mahamangsa included some still widely-popular today, such as coconut, alongside others that have fallen into obscurity, like the water plant genjer or “yellow velvetleaf.” Musiawan acknowledges that modern diners might find some reconstructed ancient dishes “very, very simple” compared to what they’re used to “because of many ingredients we have [now] that weren’t there before.” But in other cases, ninth-century chefs were able to achieve similar flavors to modern Indonesian food by using their own native ingredients. Spiciness is a notable example. Today, chillies are near-ubiquitous in Indonesian cuisine, and Java is especially known for its sambal, a spicy relish-like condiment that combines pounded chillies with shallots, garlic, and other ingredients. But in ancient Mataram, sambal was made with native hot spices, such as several kinds of ginger; andaliman, a dried tree-berry with a mouth-numbing effect like the related Sichuan pepper; and cabya or Javanese long pepper. “It tastes different than the chili now,” Musiawan says of cabya, “but it gives the same hot sensation.” Chillies, introduced in the early modern era by European traders, are still called cabai in Indonesian, a name derived from the native cabya they supplanted.

Gastronosia is just the beginning of IGC’s plans to explore Indonesian food history through interactive events. Next, they intend to do a series on the food of ancient Bali. By delving into the historic roots of dishes Indonesians know and love, the IGC hopes to get both Indonesians and foreigners curious about the country’s history, and dispel preconceptions about what life was like long ago. Musiawan says some guests didn’t expect to enjoy the diet of a ninth-century Javanese noble as much as they did. Before experiencing Gastronosia, she says, “They thought that the food couldn't be eaten.” But afterward, “They’re glad that, actually, it's very delicious.”

#Southeast Asia #Indonesia #Ancient History #Mataram #Food History #Gastronomy #Borobudur

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incorrectmadrigalfamilyquotes · 2 years

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[on a weekly game night]

Pepa, fuming: YOU BRIBED HIM TO CHEAT ME ON THE GAME!

Julieta, calmly setting the dessert aside: You call it 'bribing', I call it 'gastrodiplomacy.'

Bruno, chewing on a dessert: Look I just want extra dessert, ok?

#submission #madrigal family #pepa madrigal #julieta madrigal #bruno madrigal #encanto #encanto incorrect quotes #family bonding?#incorrect quotes #encanto pepa #encanto julieta #encanto bruno #pb&j

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forthedancingandthethriving · 6 months

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Luigi: One time, SMG4 and SMG3 were having a heated argument in the RV, and 3 took 4's tape out of the player and smashed it against the floor in rage.

Luigi: Then 4 looked him dead in the eye, pulled out a second copy of that same tape, and put it back in the player.

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Cody: I have a bad feeling about this...

Lil Coding: What do you mean?

Cody: Don't you ever get that little voice in your mind that tells you if you're going to get into trouble?

Lil Coding: No?

Cody: That actually explains so much.

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Manifest: In your opinion, what's the height of stupidity?

Emulator: I'm trying to remember Forum's height..

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CPU: On a scale of 1 to 10, exactly how much am I going to despise this plan of yours?

Abyssal: I’d say a solid 85.

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Umbra: What’s it like being tall? Is it nice?

Umbra: Can you reach comfortably for the cuppboards?

CPU: We live in constant fear of the short ones who, in my experience, will climb 4 chairs, 2 boxes, a small coffee table, and 6 oddly placed stools to get what they want.

Buffer: It was one time! And I'm not short!

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SMG4: I trust Mario.

SMG3: You think he knows what he's doing?

SMG4: I wouldn't go that far.

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Saiko, fuming: YOU BRIBED HER TO CHEAT ME ON THE GAME!

Bob, calmly setting desserts aside: You call it 'bribing', I call it 'gastrodiplomacy.'

Lily, chewing on a dessert: Look I just wanted extra dessert, ok?

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Tari: Looks like a hawk...

Saiko: No, a peregrine falcon.

Shroomy: One attacked me as a small child.

Tari: That’s horrifying!

Shroomy, smiling calmly: It did not win.

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Bob: I was arrested once for being way too handsome.

Meggy: The charges were immediately dropped due to no supporting evidence.

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Lil Coding: Which country has the most birds? Portu-geese!

Cody: That's a language.

Lil Coding: Portu-gull..?

Elanore: Nice recovery!

Plurality: I think you mean nice re-dovery.

Lil Coding: TURKEY! HOW DID I MISS TURKEY?

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Tulip: Do you have a favorite?

Juliano: I care about you all equally.

Mario, whispering: Blink if it's me.

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*An invention of hers went haywire..*

Tulip: Time for plan G!

SMG10: Don’t you mean plan B?

Tulip: No, we tried plan B a long time ago. I had to skip over plan C due to technical difficulties.

Ava: What about plan D?

Tulio: Plan D was that desperate shutdown attempt half an hour ago.

Mia: What about plan E?

Tulip: I’m hoping not to use it. Leo's hairpin gets smashed in plan E.

Tyrus: ...I like plan E.

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Umbra: You're bound by a Medical Oath! You can't kill me!

Vitality: That solely depends if I took the oath.

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Elanore: How are you doing?

Plurality: Well, I'm breathing.

Elanore: Setting the bar low, huh?

Plurality: Yeah, well, it’s better than Root.

Root, having a panic attack: I'm gonna kill you.

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Meggy: I dare you-

Luigi, pulling Mario away: He isn’t allowed to accept dares.

Mario: Apparently I have no regard for my personal safety.

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Nimbus: Why are your tongues purple?

SMG8: We had slushies. I had a blue one.

SMG9: I had a red one.

Nimbus: Oh! ... OH.

Tama: You drank each others slushies?

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Overseer, under his breath as Abyssal is pinning him: I want to kiss you.

Abyssal, not paying attention: What?

Overseer, panicking: I said if you die, I won't miss you!

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SMG4: You do seven things a day that I ask you not to do.

Lil Coding: Actually, I do more. You catch seven.

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Lily: Can you pass the salt?

SMG3: What’s the magic word?

Lily: Or else!

SMG3: *smiles proudly* Atta girl.

Domain: What are you teaching her?

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*The Kids trying to help Tama warm up to them*

Tama, giggling: The floor is lava!

Plurality: *helps Elanore onto a bench*

Lily: *kicks Lil Coding off a table*

Sage: As you can see, we know two types of people.

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VERY random viper headcanons because.. i love her

she watched pet cemetery a way too many times in collage and went thru a whole necromancy phase for a while so now she just knows an absurd amount about that topic and sage is confused by those things like?? HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT

probably has bpd and ptsd

likes to fuck with other agents with her death stare when she's bored

she has two snakes and everyone thinks they're dangerous and scary etc but they're just little dumb noodles

bets with brimstone and cypher, sometimes with sage

she cannot be trusted with kids, not because she doesn't know how to keep them safe but because she genuinely has no idea how to communicate w them

is a winter person and refuses to go to places without AC in summer unless it's really necessary

she can't work without caffeine and i mean it like think of those vampires who can't function if they don't drink blood for a long time and you'll see the vision

she has a very good alcohol tolerance.

BUT when she does get she often talks about some scientific stuff (no one understands what she's saying because she either talks too fast or it's just some high level science shit lol) or just stares off into the distance & continues to drink until someone takes the bottle away

actually likes physical affection but ONLY her closest friends know it

her real name is sabine which is of italian origin, and i know it could be random but i hc her as half italian so she probably learned some bits of the language at home and knows more that 3 languages

loves having late night conversations w sova or cypher because those men know some interesting things

she can be bribed with food. neon calls it gastrodiplomacy

she somehow got her clothes mixed up with sage's. they have no idea how but suddenly sage has green turtlenecks and viper has her jackets but neither of them tried to give those things back lmao

knows many ways to get rid of a dead body without anyone noticing, call it a mad scientist talent

she avoids social interactions unless it's really urgent and this is why we only see her in dangerous mission cinematics and not in normal official arts, events etc

this woman has tattoos and i'll die on this hill

she loves acrylic nails like reyna's but can't wear them because of her suit

probably watches a lot of psychological, horror, or thriller movies when she's bored & just for fun

#valorant viper #valorant headcanons #amber talks

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lizzybeth1986 · 1 year

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KLAW DAY 1: THROWBACK

For Throwback Day I thought I'd revisit an old favourite of mine, That Old Grape Juice. I initially wanted to write it as a four parter - two parts that would focus on Liam and Olivia's friendship, and two that would (at the time) focus on a budding romance between Drake and Kiara. For obvious reasons, the Driara chapters never happened...but I do love the two Liam and Olivia fics I managed to write 😁

Cabernet Franc is the first chapter of this short series. It is set in Lythikos in TRR1 Ch 7, shortly after Olivia mocks Savannah in front of Drake. I hc'd at the time that she spent some time showing Liam around after that.

Chardonnay shows the Lythikos Ball in Ch 8, from Liam's point of view rather than the MC's. It also explores Liam's reaction to the kiss Olivia forces on him at that Ball and how he handles that situation.

Under the cut I'll be going through the process and experience of writing this fic!

1. What about this character inspired you to write this piece?

Oh, so many things!

- Often the Liam and Olivia equation was analysed back then mostly from Olivia's perspective, leading many to believe he didn't care much for her just because he wasn't romantically inclined. I believe that is not at all the case. This fic was an exploration of Liam's perspective of their friendship, while waking up to these new feelings he has for my MC Esther.

- This was written before Liam's Gastrodiplomacy scene in TRR3, but goddamn did I already get the impression that this man had an extremely extensive palate 😋 The food and the wine were DEFINATE inspirations!!

- I really, really, for once...wanted the kiss Olivia pushed on him to be viewed as a violating act, not as some comic thing or some political move that canon wanted to portray!

2. What was your process like?

I have NO experience with wine or any alcohol. Nor have I ever had lobster in my life. So a lot of my time was spent reading up on wines, trying to figure out what would be perfect for which chapter...and around that I would build my story!!

There was a lot more space for me to freely pick and choose what I wanted for "Cabernet Franc". My only requirement was that there should be a mention of vanilla, one of Liam's favourite flavours! Based on that I was able to choose the cheese as well. Certain sequences I'd had fixed in my mind before I did the research - I knew there needed to be a joke about the bust of Luther Nevrakis, and that the conversations between Liam and Olivia needed interruptions from the real world - in the shape of Olivia's secretary Anne-Marie. I knew I wanted Anne-Marie to be both a reminder to Liam of the origins of Esther, the girl he is growing to love, as well as someone who has to put up with so much of Olivia's tantrums and moods. It was a matter of trying to weave all these together with Liam and Olivia's contrasting views of their relationship as a connecting factor!

For "Chardonnay" I needed to work under a few restrictions. Because it was set during the Lythikos Ball, I knew that canon had already established lobster bisque as the main meal. It was more a matter of which wine would pair well with that...and even better if it were a white wine to contrast with the red one of the previous chapter!! I also needed to keep in mind that Liam is seated far away from Esther and Hana's table, so he may not see much. The prominent sequences I had in mind were Liam's confrontation of Olivia after he realizes she's treated Esther and Hana badly, the Kiss™, and the ensuing conversation between Olivia and Liam. I needed to take the underlying tensions of the previous chapter and double them in this one!!

3. What part of creating this piece gave you the most joy?

I wouldn't say joy...there's nothing joyful about this particular sequence in Chardonnay. But it did give me some comfort to write Liam's reaction to Olivia's kiss and have him view it as something he didn't consent to and was deeply uncomfortable with. I also have Olivia realize immediately that she crossed a line and rush in to apologize to him. Though that conversation then gets derailed into a brief discussion about propriety and public image, I needed to establish first and foremost how violating Olivia's gesture was here from Liam's point of view.

4. Did you have a playlist to get you in the mood for creating?

Not for this one!! Just a lot of tabs on my browser for wines 😅😅

5. Are there differences in the way you make content for this character, and the way they are depicted in regular canon/fan content? If so, why?

Re: canon, yes, definitely. Canon and some of the fandom don't exactly center Liam a lot in his own story and he is often used to make a point about how irresistible the MC is. I like exploring him as his own character, viewing him not only in romantic but also platonic relationships. Some of my favourite fics to write for him are the friendship fics I've made between him and another lady of the court like Hana, Kiara or Olivia.

Many Liam stans have special and unique ways of looking at him, and I'd like to believe that my Liam has his own uniqueness among them too. I like to explore his cultural background and since a lot of my content also looks at race relations, that plays a part in the way I write Liam too.

#king liam #kingliamappreciationweek #KLAW #the royal romance #the royal heir #the royal finale #KLAW Day 1 #KLAW Day 1: Throwback #lizzybeth1986 #content: fanfic

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little-black-dress-zack-fair · 2 years

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*on a weekly game night*

Cloud: *fuming* YOU BRIBED HIM TO CHEAT ME ON THE GAME!

Tifa: *calmly setting the dessert aside* You call it 'bribing', I call it 'gastrodiplomacy.'

Zack: *chewing on a dessert* Look I just want extra dessert, ok?

#incorrect quotes #cloud strife #tifa lockhart #zack fair #ff7 #ffvii #ffviir #final fantasy vii #final fantasy vii remake #ff7r #final fantasy vii crisis core

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incorrect-p1h · 2 years

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[on a weekly game night]

Keeho, fuming: YOU'RE BRIBING HIM TO CHEAT AGAINST ME ON THE GAME!

Jiung, calmly setting the dessert aside: You call it 'bribing', I call it 'gastrodiplomacy.'

Soul, chewing on a dessert: Look I just want more cookies, ok?

#incorrect p1h #p1harmony #incorrect p1harmony quotes #p1h #incorrect p1harmony #incorrect kpop #incorrect kpop quotes #yoon keeho #choi jiung #haku shota

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sytereic · 3 months

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Food peace

Blog Entry #1

Food, for both you and I, is a big part of culture in our society. If you've ever wanted to travel across another country, you'll find yourself not only wanting to go to tourist designated places like attractions, national landmarks, museums, but also restaurants acquiring for the taste of their local meals. For Leah Selim, food withholds a key role in holding onto traditions, strengthening relationship bonds, and awareness for foreign audiences - a concept known as 'gastrodiplomacy'. Though only concepts, it is evident that as food becomes more globalised, we lose more sense of our own traditions and self - and it is vital to retain our cuisines that serves as adhesives and diplomats for foreigners. As said, I view food as the unmeasured tool that defines the people of today; a sign of peace, that interrelates countries that benefits not only culturally but economically, to connect people regardless of beliefs. Without traditional cuisines, our sense of selves will lost great meaning, and so as our relationships be it family our the world.

References

https://youtu.be/CUaZ5IGL3AY?si=iBVYqiFNxFdfk7Ce

https://youtu.be/ExjbmAD02HQ?si=e9Iid8u78jGP2OCi

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shara-capstone · 1 year

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Keywords

Malaysian Cuisine Diversity

Malaysian Food Cultural Influences

Settlers and Malaysian Cuisine

Malaysian Cuisine Influences

Food & Tourism in Malaysia

Gastrodiplomacy

Food Zines

Jaafar, Fayyadh. “The Cultural and Political Importance of Malaysian Cuisine.” Medium, Medium, 17 Sept. 2021, https://fayjaafar.medium.com/the-cultural-and-political-importance-of-malaysian-cuisine-f84aa2bd8149.

This article highlights the importance and significance of Malaysia’s long history of immigration and settlement, as well as insight as to why food serves as a representation of Malaysia’s character. I believe this text helps to understand the influences that make the cuisine diverse and serves as a good initial foundation for the purpose of my project.

“Traveling the Silk Road: AMNH.” American Museum of Natural History, 15 Aug. 2010, https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/traveling-the-silk-road.

This exhibition explores the complex network of trade routes, as well as the various ethnic groups that predominated each region. A part of my project’s focus is to identify geographic locations of which settlers and immigrants have traveled from to bring new forms of cooking and traditions to Malaysian cuisine, therefore this source is helpful as it gives a new perspective on how to visually explore this complex blend of cultural groups.

Mohd Nazri Abdul Raji, Shahrim Ab Karim, Farah Adibah Che Ishak, Mohd Mursyid Arshad, Past and present practices of the Malay food heritage and culture in Malaysia, Journal of Ethnic Foods, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2017, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352618117301737

This review delves more into the actual different preparations, methods of cooking, and use of prominent ingredients in Malay cuisine. I am able to gain a more clear understanding of the specific details within the cuisine and what makes it stand apart from the others, which reinforces the point of my project; to show the diversity. Though this article only talks about Malay food heritage and not much about the rest of the cuisines.

Kosako Yoshino, Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Asia Pacific Region, Chapter 9 Malaysian Cuisine: A Case of Neglected Culinary Globalization, 167-183

This case study is an excellent report into food and identity—Kosako Yoshino looks specifically into the (neglected) culinary globalization in Malaysia and why that may be the case. This was interesting to me; why does Malaysia’s multi ethnic cuisine not fare well on the global market? It brought up interesting points which could bring a new perspective to my project—how does food influence people (specifically the charm of a diverse, cultural cuisine?) In addition to this, it also breaks down the Malaysian cuisine into subcategories, which is what I intend to base my project around.

@thegodofcookery: Chinese Protest Recipes

I think this is a great example of using design, along with the appeal and comfort of food, to express a specific agenda and story. The layout of this zine is creative, easy to follow, and clearly tells its story. I intend to use this as creative inspiration for zine layouts. The typography and style works for the story it’s telling.

Parasecoli, Fabio. “How Countries Use Food to Win Friends and Influence People.” Foreign Policy, 20 Aug. 2022, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/20/food-diplomacy-countries-identity-culture-marketing-gastrodiplomacy-gastronativism/.

This FP article explores the concept of gastrodiplomacy—something I’ve never really looked into before, however relates closely to my project. Gastrodiplomacy refers to “the practice of sharing a country’s cultural heritage through food”, or even “winning hearts and minds through stomachs.” I chose this article because that’s exactly what I want the end goal of my project to do. I think a lot of what this article talks about could be a huge influence into how I display my “stalls” and even how I choose to layout my zines.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/162639661/Korean-street-food-Prints?tracking_source=search_projects%7Cfood+prints

This short series of Korean food prints are visually appealing and though they’re simple, the layout clearly expresses cultural significance and are very cohesive. The hierarchy of text is also something that appeals to me and could potentially influence how I decide to use text in my zine or anywhere else I need to.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/157332529/The-Four-Pastas-of-Roma-Infographic?tracking_source=search_projects%7Cmap+design

I was interested in map design and how artists use maps to illustrate a geographical spread across different places. One of my main goals is to emphasize where these influences came from and I think maps are a great way to show that. This artist states “I’ve always been fascinated with how the four famous Roman pastas had such overlap in ingredients, yet were such distinct dishes.” There is a similar concept here in relation to my project and I think this artist does a beautiful job in illustrating their fascination. I hope to take a similar approach with my goal.

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koukrisity · 1 year

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sucuretcannelle · 2 years

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Alexi: Hey random question, what are your favorite flowers?

Aibre: Peonies, why?

Alexi:

Aibre: Were you going to get me flowers?

Alexi:

Aibre:

Alexi: ᶦᵗ’ˢ ᵃ ᵖᵒˢˢᶦᵇᶦˡᶦᵗʸ

Char: Hey, Ai? Can I get some dating advice?

Aibre: Just because I'm with Alexi doesn't mean I know how I did it.

Nash: Ooh, somebody has a crush.

Aibre: Pfft, I don’t have a crush on Alexi. I just think he's cool, it’s not like I stay up at night thinking about him.

*later that night*

Aibre, very much awake: Uh oh.

Writer, holding an egg: Hey Jason, do you think I can get this egg into that jar without it cracking?

Jason, chuckling: No.

Writer: *throws the egg straight at Nash*

Writer, while Jason is dying of laughter: Guess you were right-

Char: I dare you-

Kai, pulling Writer away: She isn’t allowed to accept dares.

Writer: Apparently I have no regard for my personal safety.

Pippin: Smaller things are angrier because they have less place to store it!

Aibre: Examples?

Alexi: Wasps.

Orion: Humans.

Nash: Ai.

Nash: This is giving me good PTSD.

Azzy:

Azzy: You mean nostalgia?

Jason: Aibre, I know you love Alexi. I mean, we all do, he's a very nice person and we respect him immensely.

Char: But we think he might be a fucking himbo.

Nash: Ai isn’t answering my messages.

Alexi: Allow me.

Nash: I tried 6 times, what makes you thi-

Aibre: *replying to message* Hello.

Azzy: Looks like a hawk...

Alexi: No, a peregrine falcon.

Nash: One attacked me as a small child.

Azzy: That’s horrifying!

Nash, smiling calmly: It did not win.

Nash: How sure are you?

Kai: Eighty-five to eighty-six percent.

Nash: We’ve gone on much less.

Regina: Yeah, so he broke up with me! Hah..

Jason: Why are you looking up?

Regina: I NEED TO CRY BUT MY FOUNDATION WAS 48 DOLLARS!

Char: Which one of us is your favorite?

Aibre: Aww, I love you all equally.

Writer, whispering and standing beside Alexi and Pippin: Blink if it's us.

Atlas: How are you doing?

Orion: Well I'm breathing.

Atlas: Setting the bar low, hm?

Orion: Yeah well, it’s better than Aibre.

Aibre, having a panic attack: I'm gonna kill you.

Nash: Recipe says to beat three eggs.

Writer: At what? Hand to hand combat?

Nash: Must be. Ai banned swords in the kitchen, remember?

*on a weekly game night*

Char, fuming: YOU BRIBED HIM TO CHEAT ME ON THE GAME!

Aibre, calmly setting the cookies aside: You call it 'bribing', I call it 'gastrodiplomacy.'

Alexi, chewing on a cookie: Look I just wanted extra dessert, ok?

(I CANTHWNDBJE I LOVE THIS THANK YOU)

(I WAS READING AND I LOOKED UP AND SAW THIS THANK YOUEJDJD)

#hall of fame

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