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Sunday, September 29, 2024

The Five Flavors

This, too, was labeled as being "From the Cottar," and thus provides a glimpse into culinary culture in southern Kerofinela during the Late Heortling period. It provided interesting challenges in translation; the final flavor could have been translated as "savory," but ultimately the translator's hands were tied in providing a translation for the Theyalan adjective umatheh.

It must be noted that spiciness is not listed as one of the flavors here; this suggests that the Heortlings viewed spice as a different axis of cooking entirely. Certainly, they were not unaware of the role of spices in cooking, given the Issaries manifests that have been recovered from Wilmskirk and Boldhome, detailing the many spices that were brought up from Esrolia, including cinnamon, black pepper, coriander and sweet neem. Elsewhere in Mianmo's notes, she makes reference to having a "five-goddess Sarli curry" for dinner with 
Mesyllandre Otoros, and her later regret at thinking the two of them could "overcome Ty Kora Tek" is illuminating.

Poems from Sarli

Mianmo’s journals make mention of poems she received from “that darling down in Sarli,” and several of these poems – likely transcribed at t...