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Hey, some of the things in the cookbook could at least be mostly replicated. More with a few substitutions.

Japan's buddhism is mostly Mahayana, while Tibet practices Vajrayana buddhism. Not really similar practices of the same faith.

So, big on Noroon (or however the in-verse name for them is spelled) ranching up there?

Surely agricultural northern aururians would domesticate some things worthy of being traded as herbs and spices. Or is the north truly devoid of things to enrich the seasoning traditions of the world?

The issue is that I'm pretty sure that by the time Europeans contacted Aururia, Japan was pretty unavoidably on a track towards Sakoku, if not already having implemented it.

Hm. I was just trying to think of someone other than the Atjuntja or the eastcoasters.

Specifically, the Tjibarri?

And then, rather clownishly, someone STILL breeds the sugar beet, because they want to enter this pissing contest over who produces the sweeteners too. Even though they could just grow maples, in all likelihood.

I really love the concept of a world where the vikings had enough time to set up so much maple sugar production that Caribbean and Brazilian sugar are, at most, an underdeveloped competitor industry.

Hooray for maple plantations! Maple syrup, maple sugar, maple taffy. Though I hope they don't kill off the black maple, since it can also be used to make maple syrup (then again, they aren't in it's growing area yet, so far as I can tell.)

Yeah, I had no idea whether it was even a thing.

And I don't suppose it'd be at all practical to set up a system for extracting usable sulfur from rotten eggs?

That'd be a very naive idea of theirs. I don't think the Aururian plains are even that similar to the African savannah at all.

You could all but reach the headwaters of the columbia river by sailing upriver through the principle river feeding Hudson Bay. Might be semi-possible for the norse. Edit: Wait, no, that's not the Columbia river. It's the Fraser.

Koalas tend to be dumb enough that they will only eat eucalyptus off of the branch. They have very, very simple brains.

Aururians already grow eucalyptus as part of their forestry system. Whether for charcoal or lumber, I don't recall.

Goat's milk and soured yams. What an unappealing but efficacious scurvy prevention diet.

Well, that's a mistranslation of my tone if ever I've seen one. When I say 'the OTL greenland got the attention it deserved', I mean 'totally ignored because it's a frigid pisshole'. A timeline where norsemen never have a reason to seriously apply themselves to settling it.

Were it only that an ongoing TL existed based on the 'Erik the Red ends up in Newfoundland instead of Greenland, names it Greenland, finds greenland and calls it 'Great Iceland' during his exploration while an outlaw. Brings people to Greenland, not Great Iceland. GI is a waypoint at best' from...

I'm imagining that New France will break off to avoid having any part in mainland bankrupcy or debt repayment. Particularly when the mainland becomes less able to offer meaningful payment for the much needed food and other goods.