No, they kind of subsisted on wheat, chickpeas, and olive oil. My mom is horribly and painfully allergic to chickpeas, and we were watching a documentary about the Roman urban poor, and we just laughed and laughed. As it happens, my current writing project mixes a lot of foods from the opposite sides of the Atlantic, because the environment is heavily based on the California of my childhood, and I'm trying to decide how much of this to explain by a fantasy equivalent to the Columbian exchange, and how much I just want to say "In this world, nightshades evolved on the same continent as wheat, and everybody can just deal".
*is utterly fascinated by this AH, sets down to read*
Copperbadge manages to share two fandoms with me, and some of the first really good fic I read was his Harry Potter stuff. Reading Ellis Graveworthy as something other than a Wizarding author who slept with a young Sirius Black is a little surreal.
Argh, why is it that any time you try to link me to the Alternate History site, Livejournal makes me fish the comment out of
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Date: 2012-08-24 10:34 pm (UTC)*is utterly fascinated by this AH, sets down to read*
Copperbadge manages to share two fandoms with me, and some of the first really good fic I read was his Harry Potter stuff. Reading Ellis Graveworthy as something other than a Wizarding author who slept with a young Sirius Black is a little surreal.
Argh, why is it that any time you try to link me to the Alternate History site, Livejournal makes me fish the comment out of