I write books set in fantasy environments. An important part of worldbuilding includes the appropriate food for your level of technology.
Several years ago, I read a fantasy book where the author clearly spent many hours on the food of her fantasy world and the various animals. She gave each kind of fruit, bird, or herd beast a different, usually unpronounceable, name in the language of her fantasy culture.
The clumsy way she inserted the information into the narrative ruined what could have been a great book for me.
The book started out well, and I really liked the characters. It was a portal story, and the group had been dropped into a strange world. One of the local farmhands agreed to be their guide.
However, every time the protagonists halted their journey, they pulled some random fruit with a gobbledygook name out of the bag and waxed poetic about…
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❤ Thank you, Kim!
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My pleasure! 😀
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