The halfling chef Margelet is a vociferous collector of recipes and a constant, tireless, experimenter with various concoctions. Much as her husband Dr. Ocsid collects information about painful wounds, curses, and poisons during his mercenary work, Margelet collects information on delicacies that are hearty or healing.

Her particular specialty is stonebread, which is famous—infamous—as a road food due to its rock-hard texture which is highly resistant to mold and rot but must be soaked in a liquid to be eaten. Margelet’s stonebread, in addition to being far softer inside than the standard variety, often includes baked-in watery berries that can help moisten the concoction.

Those same berries are used in her famous Sweetberry Biscookies, which do not keep well but are hearty enough to take the place of a whole meal and delightfully sweet. So sweet, in fact, that rigorous experimentation by Dr. and Mrs. Ocsid has established that eating more than three—two for those of small stature—will result in a painful stomachache that they refer to as “berrybelly.”

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