
This is like the one from the tea recipes, it's just about food and the plot is not that deep (I mean it actually is, especially the topics in it like depression, suicide, violence, neglect) but you notice that is not the main goal of the autor, the goal is the food.
Something like "food brings people together"... Simple as that...
I'm mad to that kind of household, what's that bullshit of killing each other, if she were a normal girl she would be dead for sure... Idk, that gap is what they are aiming for but I'm not into it, where's your strategy, where are your plans... I now what do you want to achieve but how, that would be a better develop than I'm gonna act like a child and still everything are going to be on my way. At least Athy has plans before she encountered her father, at least.
It seemed normal for an empire to let siblings kill each other. What surprised me was they were openly supporting it. In my country's history there was a Sultan named Mehmed III. He killed all his 19 siblings at one night. There were children and babies. And forced his sons watch their coffins passing in the morning. I don't say I am supporting but having rebellions is a pain for empires and we can't always think as we do in Modern Age.