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Ah, new little tidbit for you guys to chew on. During one of the scenes in the book I'm currently developing, one of the topics that came up was food preparation. Most people these days typically will just toss something in a pot on the stove, or even toss a frozen dinner into the microwave. What if they suddenly found themselves in a situation where they had a knife, the cloths on their backs, and *maybe* some string. That now presents some issues on how to make a variety of different foods out of the available local fauna, including bread.
The idea of "toss it in a dutch oven", or "pitch it into the hearth/brick oven/range" doesn't exactly work in those kind of situations. In my case the guys are being forced to build up from nothing and literally have to MacGyver everything they need, which at first limits what kinds of foods they can prepare. I mean, you're not going to just throw together a stone oven you can cook in right away, or create a cast iron cook stove within a day or two. Well, not at least until you can solve a number of problems, including making the concrete or plaster to hold the stones together, build the doors, figure out the heating logistics, etc.
You also have to acquire metals, materials, build the facilities needed to process them (forges, smelters, kilns for producing lime and mortar, etc) and go through each of the stages required to build them. This also includes steadily improving storage, processing (ie, mills, grinders, etc), and harvesting systems. That's assuming you are starting out with nothing but the cloths on your back, a pocket knife, and maybe a ball of string in your pocket.
Anyhow, just some food for thought....er, no pun intended. lol.
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