Hello! I hope I'm not bothering you, but you have so much good meta and I am in need of help. Please help me, gffa. You are my only hope. (Sorry) Do you know or have any sources on Jedi and food. Ie: what do they eat at the temple? Is there a mess hall of sort? A lot of fics give masters rooms with kitchens, but does this come from canon? Would it even be feasible, given the number of Jedi in the PT? And in that case, do they go grocery shopping? With what money (as in, do they get paid)? 1/2
2/2 If they eat together, who cooks? Do Padawans have kitchen duty or is there staff around? Recuited how, in that case? And most importantly, is the food Army level bad? Thanks
Hi! THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS. :D I have a series of posts about the Jedi Temple here, though keep in mind that a lot of that is based on Legends stuff! But when you’re desperate for worldbuilding, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.What we do know from canon: Think of the Jedi Temple more like a communal living space rather than traditional nuclear-family living spaces, so everyone has their own room to do with what they like (we see Anakin’s room, we see Yoda’s room, we see Ahsoka’s room, we see Obi-Wan’s room, we see Barriss’ room, etc.) but they’re not apartments like some of Legends wrote. You’ll see it pop up a lot in fic and that’s because the Jedi Apprentice/Jedi Quest books did have Masters and Padawans sharing living quarters, but as George Lucas always said, that stuff was never canon to his Star Wars. Instead, The Clone Wars shows us with Masters and Padawans having their own separate spaces to do with what they would.If you want, you can get around this by saying it’s a choice, that some Master/Padawan pairings do it one way, some do it another! This is how I mentally adjust Obi-Wan and Anakin sharing an apartment during his Padawan days, but once he was Knighted, he had his own quarters. BECAUSE I LIKE THE IDEA and canon doesn’t support it but it doesn’t wholly rule it out, either. XDI’ve never seen a refectory in the canon (Legends had them, but again, not canon to George’s Star Wars, so take with a grain of salt, as we do most things about the Jedi Temple’s inner workings!), but the cross-section of the Jedi Temple says that there are several food-growing gardens (which means really fresh organic food!) and refectories spread across the Temple and it makes sense–if they don’t always cook meals in their apartments, there must be a larger dining area.
We don’t know what kind of food they serve there, I’ve never seen anything in canon that addresses it, so a lot of people assume they serve “boring, healthy” food there. And I can agree with the healthy part, but one of the things that the worldbuilding mentioned along the way is that the Jedi Temple was purposefully structured to accommodate various alien species (like Turbo lifts were extra big to allow for the size of larger species, etc.), so it makes sense to me that their food would be designed to cater to all sorts of palates and food needs as well, which means probably a whole huge variety of things. Still healthy, but a lot of various spices if you wanted them and lots of really fresh, crisp fruits and vegetables or the GFFA equivalent of those things.Given that there were around 10,000 Jedi Knights (and more Padawans, Initiates, Younglings, etc.) it makes sense (and the JA/JQ novels, as well as books like Dark Rendezvous have this as well) that there were several dining halls, some bigger and some more intimate, spread across the Temple, many of them probably being a little more specified than others. There were gardens dedicated just for the kitchens, including ones where herbs and spices were grown. There were some refectories that focused on specific types of food, like one might be more of a breakfast type of food, another on two levels over might be more an all-you-can-eat buffet, the one over just off the Room of a Thousand Fountains might have the best Antarian Spice Cake and you could still hear the soft sounds of the great waterfall there on quieter days.I think it likely that there were probably small hotplates and tea sets available to Jedi who wanted them (well, the GFFA equivalent XD), to have a quiet mug of tea or a private stash and that either they requisitioned them from the Temple or that they do get some sort of stipend that they can spend however they like. A bit like asking your parents for $30 to go buy some candy you like and, as long as you’re not blowing it on space weed or whatever, they don’t care much how you spend that money, they trust you to spend it in the way that works for you.Think of the Temple as its own small city, in a lot of ways. They grew much of their own food (but would import whatever else they needed, they get their money from the Republic, as they’re under the Senate’s jurisdiction) and had staff dedicated to cooking–just as there are Jedi who wish to become healers, there would be Jedi who wish to become chefs. While you can have someone put on Kitchen Duty for misbehaving, there’s probably a well-structured machine of Jedi who genuinely want to be there, cooking and baking, in addition to the droid staff they have to help with distribution. (We do know that there were “jobs” within the Temple at least available, given that Prosset is sent to work in the library after he tried to kill Mace.) And sometimes they would go out shopping to get what they needed or sometimes they’d probably just order on-line, like sometimes you feel like going to Target and sometimes you just want to order something off Amazon or the HoloNet in you pjs. XD
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