Editing Food at Elisal (section)

==General notes==
===Crab in April===

In southern Iberian waters, crab would be good in spring.

How they prepare it:

* Boiled in seawater
* Split with a knife
* Meat picked and eaten with bread
* Sometimes mixed with garlic and oil

But crab is more valuable sold whole, so they only eat:

* Small ones
* Broken ones
* Unsold remainder

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===Drink Patterns===

Poor coastal Spaniards would most commonly drink:

* Diluted red wine
* Water if safe
* No beer (less common in Iberian regions)

Wine would be thin and rough — not noble vintage.

===Food Texture and Atmosphere (for Writing)===

Their food would be:

* Heavy on garlic
* Glossed with olive oil
* Eaten from shared earthenware bowls
* With bread used as utensil

You would smell:

* Salt
* Fish oil
* Woodsmoke
* Garlic
* Wet rope

===What They Would ''Not'' Have Often===

* White bread
* Sugar
* Citrus in quantity (maybe one lemon tree if lucky)
* Meat (except rare rabbit or festival pork)
* Spices like pepper (too expensive)