Readers are introduced to dishes such as A Pie of Carrots and Other Roots, Luxury Bread and Brioche, and Fried Artichokes with Bacon and Cream, as well as pivotal epicurean characters like Taillevent (a 14th-century cook to the court of France), Olivier de La Marche (the Duke of Burgundy's master of ceremonies) and Maestro Martino di Como (cook to the papal court).

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For dinner, Milliways provided a traditional fictional feast, featuring a smorgasbord of imaginary delicacies such as roast beast, lembas bread, green eggs and ham and snozzberries with cream.

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