Salons?

[Impos!]

Is there a reason to host more "complicated" demanding salon types, like full lunches or dinners that require a massive amount of food of various properties? When you can do something else like a Picnic that requires a drink and a few snacks?

Is there any reason to make more complex, lavish dishes either? Besides the fun of it.

I thought my guests might be more impressed and have a better time with more food on offer and in more interesting varieties- but it seems to be more about just having the correct cards at the correct times?

[Clawyer]

From what I remember the Salons that are more complicated (dinner and lunch) provide one more timeslot for your guests to discuss. That is the only benefit.

This in turn means you need more aspect of the soul cards to get more lessons out of the event.

[Fishlover299]

Technically there's no difference between the amount of food needed between the salon types as long as you invite four+ visitors.

While it might be trickier to meet the course requirements you still need to provide a food item for each guest. Plus some food items cover multiple courses so you can use more basic stuff to simply fill the needed amount of food and aspects.

An easy example includes pumpkin pie being both main dish and pudding or grape salad being both first course and side dish. Boom! The salon courses have been met and you can toss in whatever other dishes you need to meet the preference requirements of your guests and meet the food count as well.

On the topic of aspects some foods are just strictly inferior such as leek dishes lacking heart compared to the onion equivalents. Some are very disappointing for the work required to make such as soused mackerel having only 2 heart. Others are crazy versatile covering a half dozen different aspects all at once.

Some of these super dishes require harder to acquire ingredients, but some are pretty readily available. Just keep experimenting in the kitchen and once you find them, make good use of them.

[Impos!]

Originally posted by Fishlover299:

Technically there's no difference between the amount of food needed between the salon types as long as you invite four+ visitors.

While it might be trickier to meet the course requirements you still need to provide a food item for each guest. Plus some food items cover multiple courses so you can use more basic stuff to simply fill the needed amount of food and aspects.

An easy example includes pumpkin pie being both main dish and pudding or grape salad being both first course and side dish. Boom! The salon courses have been met and you can toss in whatever other dishes you need to meet the preference requirements of your guests and meet the food count as well.

On the topic of aspects some foods are just strictly inferior such as leek dishes lacking heart compared to the onion equivalents. Some are very disappointing for the work required to make such as soused mackerel having only 2 heart. Others are crazy versatile covering a half dozen different aspects all at once.

Some of these super dishes require harder to acquire ingredients, but some are pretty readily available. Just keep experimenting in the kitchen and once you find them, make good use of them.

Oh, do you only need one food item of each course? I thought you'd need like, one course of every type for each person? Or is that just being made simpler by meals that have multiple course uses?

[Clawyer]

You need 1 food item per visitor.
You need 1 of each kind of food item.
If you are hosting for 5 visitors you need 5 items, one of them a first course, one main course, one side dish and one dessert. The fifth item can be of any kind.

While we are at it: You only need to provide each visitors Aspect at least once. If you are hosting for a group that needs 2 sky, 2 forge and one anything you can serve 1 cup of tea with sky and forge as well as 4 glasses of water. The same is true for food.

[Impos!]

Originally posted by Clawyer:

You need 1 food item per visitor.
You need 1 of each kind of food item.
If you are hosting for 5 visitors you need 5 items, one of them a first course, one main course, one side dish and one dessert. The fifth item can be of any kind.

While we are at it: You only need to provide each visitors Aspect at least once. If you are hosting for a group that needs 2 sky, 2 forge and one anything you can serve 1 cup of tea with sky and forge as well as 4 glasses of water. The same is true for food.

Huh, alright- that makes sense. Although it feels like it devalues the food items you're making.

I wish you got some sort of "reward" for providing more extravagant meals.

Or maybe people could have secret "favorite" meals you can figure out?

[Fishlover299]

All the food checks are made separately but all of them need to pass.
Is there a dish that covers every course (if applicable)?
Is there a dish that covers the food preference?
Are the number of dishes at least equal to the number of guests?
A hypothetical four course one of every aspect dish would meet the first two leaving you to just fill the room with canned hams or something to provide enough dishes for everyone.

I believe there is only one secret interaction with food and that is providing someone with a brand of drink related to them. Domaine Raveline with the Killes

[Fishlover299]

The more "extravagant" meal is the full luncheons and dinners with meeting the course requirements and the reward is another guest interaction for potential lessons and lore.

[Hound Archon]

I believe there is only one secret interaction with food and that is providing someone with a brand of drink related to them. Domaine Raveline with the Killes

There are a few more. Try serving Onion Gratin to Zachary. Coquille is fond of Cuckoo Honey.