TABLE TALK OF WATERDEEP (Patreon)

We weren't quite sure which collection to put this one in, so we've decided to include it into Locations & Geography, Culture & Peoples, and Resources since it seems to hit on all of these points (food trends among Waterdhavians, but also a useful list to use for your games).

TABLE TALK OF WATERDEEP

Waterdeep is a cosmopolitan, crossroads trading city where fads come and go constantly, but the best or most useful get picked and exported across the Heartlands, so what’s hot in the Deep today may be a staple in Athkatla or Suzail a season later.

So as the 1490s DR march on, the latest Waterdhavian food fad, elbowing aside such Deep favorites as custard tarts and blackberry-adorned or tart-cheese-covered custard tarts, is Shadranth Slake.

Which despite its name isn’t a cold drink to slake thirst, but a bowl-filling dessert of warmed, diced, previously-cooked-soft pears in shadranth.

Shadranth is an almond brandy, long known among halflings but suddenly “on the scene” for humans.

It’s made by chopping...

*Please find the full transcript in *.txt and *.docx formats attached to this post.