Recipes on the Road

Recipes on the Road, alias Roadside Dining, was a compilation of regional specialities, compiled by A.E. Clipson, Traroth the dragon, and Nathan Ransom.

History

After the events of Going South, Nathan approached Clipson and Traroth with an idea to 'Do something more' to commemorate their adventure. Traroth and Clipson's wife Anastasia suggested a cookbook of all the strange dishes they encountered on the journey, or else a travel-guide relating their mistakes and how not to make them. Roadside was the principal result of that project. Its four authors compiled it together, using existing cookbooks and their own imaginations to reconstruct the recipes themselves.

Contents

• Porridge and honey

• Scrambled egg

• rolls with summer berry jam, grapes, cranberries, and cheese

• croissants with jam, oranges, strawberries in honey, pickled onions, and lemonade

• tea and croissants, grapes and pears, apples and cheese, almonds and sponge-cakes

• flannel-cakes and strawberry preserves

• 'Hangover Cures': A mixture of one ounce of club soda, two ounces of broth, one ounce of tomato juice, one teaspoon of onion sauce, quarter of a teaspoon of lemon juice, three dashes of Tabasco-Habanero sauce, and dried garlic. Alternatively, one flaskful of 'the rawest of all possible raw spirit', drunk straight on the morning after.

• roast maize ears,

• fried onion and garlic,

• potato wedges

• tomato soup with buttered maize-muffins,

• flat bread piled with sautéed vegetables and pickled roots

• hazelnut chowder

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Reception

[To be determined]

In some ways a companion book to Elvira's Kitchen, Roadside was equally as popular.