The Edesia Festival

I am going to start releasing more posts about worldbuilding within the universe of How To Cook Your Dragon to give a greater sense of life to this project. 

One must picture Remuria during the Edesia Festival of Latium, the pinnacle of decadence, debauchery, and flavor. Devoted to Edesia, the Goddess of Feasting, the festival has become a meeting point for Efenland's chefs, magirists, and cuisiniers to showoff their newest creations and gastronomical inventions. The Edesia Festival is set up like a ring with the most expensive and elite dishes in the center, and the more economical dishes as it moves outward towards the edge of ring. 

Dishes range from New Anglian pioneer food to the mysterious cuisines of the Morrowlanders. Elves, Dwarves, and other races usually excluded from Latium Festivals are invited as well (assuming they are capable cooks). Less-capable chefs set up booths lining the streets of Remuria to sell their bites and morsels to the commonfolk. Anyone can present a dish to the High-Priests of Edesia in hopes they will try a single bite of it. If the High-Priest approves, the presenter can enter the Edesiad.The Edesiad is held as a yearly competition between the greatest chefs, pushing them to their limit in order to the claim the title as Archimagirus. Archimagirus is a life-long title and the Archimagiri are often selected as the personal chef's to Gods, Kings, and the Ultrawealthy. The rarest ingredients such as a dragon liver, phoenix eggs, and leviathan roe are sold at auctions to the highest bidder and are quickly prepared into masterful dishes for the visiting nobility.