Aerulan asked Amy Crook:

Food is a big part of your books, do you have a process for writing that sort of detail? Do you go looking for ideas, just come up with stuff that sound good, do you actually get to make/eat all those delicious things?! And is there any chance of a recipe or two at the back of the new book for those of us who don't have access to/familiarity with all those tasty things and get very hungry while reading?

Amy Crook It's a pretty seat-of-the-pants process that involves a lot of googling and sifting through my brain for things I've eaten! For the Courtship dinner I had to google up the proper format for a 7-course meal, and then I mixed up some sample menus with food I'd eaten and some things that I found poking around online. A lot the Saveur truffles are just wishful thinking, though I've had some amazing truffles from artisan chocolatiers. I shall have to see what recipes I have available since a lot of it is modeled off food I've had in restaurants rather than made myself.

Mostly, though, lots of googling and making myself hungry!

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