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True true, but what about the methods on how the meals are cooked?

Exactly. Think about it. A strip of steak with brocholi and baby carrots all cooked under pressure and steam with in a three-layered steam cooker (the second layer for the boiling water, and the other a filter where all the grease and unwanted bacteria goes). We're talking a perfect, healthy steampunk meal here all thanks to a copper makeshift machine. X3

The first thing that came to mind while reading the topic was experimental cuisine (sometimes called molecular food). It's basically just applying science to your cooking, turning food into something totally different... like... something that looks like caviar yet in reality is blueberry jelly... or... salmon cream whip... or... heck, even just standard recipes slightly enhanced by using the right mixture of temperature and time, based on scientific research.

I can so see a steampunky chemist brooding over his ingenious new invention... minced carrot burger with jelly-fied tea-and-milk drops... xp

speaking of which, I was watching Chef at home the other day, and Michael Smith used this chemical(forget what it is sadly) with pureed foods like pees and something else, i forget now...but anyway he made them into these kind of ravioli things. The chemical made the outer surface of the pureed liquid gel up so it formed a skin of sorts while the center remained a liquid.

While not quite steampunk, this is still a pretty cool thing to do with food+science!

((actually...come to think of it "the other day" was probably a few weeks/months ago XD))

For the Victorian era in the US...

Put whiskey in everything.

Eeeeeeverything.

But with airships shipping commercially, I imagine they'd be able to enjoy the same convenience we do for having foods out of season or imported.

Era food for America -

Lower class: Potatoes, Boiled meat, "Pasties" (pastry with meat filling, often filled out with turnips, potatoes, etc), bread, biscuits, eggs, cured meat, mostly root vegetables for the cheapness as well as beans.

Interesting fact: In the Victorian era they were already using artificial colorings and flavorings to cheapen food prices. This was considered terrible, underhand behavior and the food was primarily sold to lower classes under the guise that it was the real thing.

Upper class enjoyed much fancier food. A lot of the home cooked things we still enjoy. In a seam world they probably have all kinds of fancy things shipped in by air from all around the world. Victorian era upper crust loved novelty like nothing else.

They'd have their sushi on porcelain plates suspended over ice in a sterling tray, I can imagine. XD

Mmmm teas and honeys.

There's nothing better than nice tea and honey. I'm finally getting out of a rut and trying new tea flavors from roobikos to estranged oriental teas. However, my favorite by far is some English mulling spice tea with clover honey.

Opps! Sorry! Never read or seen anything of Twilight, I just grabbed the most recent vampire thing that everyone knows about and assumed it mentioned that somewhere. My bad... sweatdrop But is it true that for some reason vampires twinkle in that series? Actualy I probably shouldn't ask that in this forum so....

ummm....

What about Anzac biscutes for airships? They where specificly created for long lasting as they contained no eggs, makeing them great for something sweet and simple on a long range voyage into the unknown. Also fruitcake.

Wouldn't they eat whatever is available? I mean that's people do who are pillaging, scrounging food do.