LOTR food

[Lotesse]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Benedictines are good, but you just can't beat the Carthusians! It's so cool that the recipe for Chartreuse is only known by three monks...and these monks are bound by vows of silence...

And that's so typically an Elvish kind of thing, too, isn't it? Perfect analogy - they would totally be guarding a secret mystery recipe for some exotic, impossibly tasty amazing liqueur. Exactly like the Chartreuse making monks, exactly like that.

BTW - er *raises hand* What are "Luddites?" *feels terribly catholically undereducated...* Is that a specific order of the catholic monks? Or is that some sort of new technological material, "luddite" like something they make spacecraft hulls out of or something... er...