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Everyday meals in the city depend on the season, the market and what a household can afford. Grains, beans, roots and vegetables provide much of the food. Fish adds variety when the catch and transport are available. More elaborate meals are possible, but only when growers, fishers, storage operators and cooks can supply everything required to make them.
Food needs suitable storage, water and a source of heat or power before it reaches the table. A household can grow or preserve some of its own supply, but most still depend on other businesses for part of the work. The same is true of restaurants.
People remember the convenience of the Old World and want those comforts back. Rebuilding them creates business opportunities, provided somebody can maintain the supply behind the menu. The city's meals therefore change as its farms and services improve. A dependable ordinary dinner is already an achievement in a city that once had to survive on whatever people could carry home.
