06 - Hearty fish chowder; fresh bread and butter; char-grilled eels on rice; coffee

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01: sustenance
With refugees in the Vault, the Milk Run as a business is less important than making sure the new ones, the strangers, are properly fed. Senshi and anyone capable who cares to help him have set themselves to this task, making sure there’s enough nice hot soup and bread for any starving miner or factory worker, now cut off from their old life, to at least not have to worry about their next meal.

Whenever possible Senshi takes a moment to make sure the new uns are settled in and have a warm bed, and does his best to make them feel welcome, but he knows with a crowd this size that’s not always possible. So many mouths, so little time. Still, he makes the new arrivals feel human whenever he can.

02: luxury
Senshi is going around with a survey, asking new and old what luxury foods and ingredients they most miss from the Empire and carefully noting down the answers in a notebook.

If asked why, he says, “Simple: next time I’m out shopping with the Milk Run, I’ll try to find some.”

He’s dead serious.

What flavors and treats do you miss most?

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Re: 02

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“I think I should rephrase my question,” Senshi replies, gently. “But let’s go where this answer’s going first. Tell me about blin.”

Re: 02

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"It's somewhere between a crepe and a pancake," she says. "Often with buckwheat or millet flour in addition to wheat. They're pliable enough you can fold them over most fillings without breaking them, and warm yesterday's meal that way. We... did not get them often at the program, but they were cheap and simple enough to steal some cheese or fish with."

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“Shouldn’t be hard to add them to the restaurant rotation. Can even do it with a bunch of fillings - savory and sweet. If there’s a particularly good occasion for them next month, let me know.”

He jots it down.

“But I’ll be honest, while I appreciate the comfort food recipes, I was looking for a different kind of challenge.”

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"Ah. ... Hm. I don't have much experience with true luxury foods. Though, last time I was serving for the King's Bounty, I heard about something called 'Etheric Meringue'. It had a resemblance to something I'd heard of called a 'Siberian Omelette'-- cake, topped with ice cream, and then a browned meringue. That's... More a matter of capability than ingredients, but you could probably manage it with a salted ice box and a bit of run-up time."

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“Vanilla ice cream on cinnamon chocolate cake would make it sufficiently luxurious to make a statement,” Senshi says. “Add the virtuoso cooking technique to it - yeah. Time to embarrass some nobility.”