Often I read fantasy novels that contain a lot of traveling whether it’s by foot, horse or sea. Your characters need to eat and one way to pull your reader out of your fantasy world is to write something so strange or unbelievable that they pause to wonder how that can be. One place that typically happens in a fantasy novel is when food is mentioned.
Below are three rules to avoid these mistakes and add some solid, commonsense detail to the food in your fantasy novel.
Douglas W.T. Smith 