Fflamddwyn is the owner of Fflamddwyn's Ancient Meals, a cozy little place in Titan's B-District where starfarers can have a taste of the stargazing era, of a time before we all started crisscrossing the Sol system. Fflamddwyn is a bear of a Terran, large and rough-hewn but filled with a boundless mirth and zeal for life. He greets friends with a warm embrace and a firm and resounding slap on the back, and he greets strangers with a warm smile and a bone-crushing handshake. When you come to Fflamddwyn's Ancient Meals, you're well taken care of. Yipyap gives it Six barks out of Five, it's a personal favorite of his.
A close friend to Ronaldo, his and Fflamddwyn's restaurants are sort of sister businesses- where Ronaldo likes to focus on the past's idea of the future, Fflamddwyn serves as authentic a version of meals from pre-industrial eras popular on most of Sol's inhabited worlds. He does painstaking research not just into how ancient meals were prepared, but into how they were plated and presented as well- what were the utensils like on that part of the world, did they use utensils at all? Were their meals served on metal, glass, clay, ceramics? What was the pH of the water they used to prepare meals with? Where were their ingredients sourced from? Presentation is important for selling the Ancient Meals aesthetic, because the truth is a lot of ancient foods look a lot like modern home cooking, on account of us being the descendants of our ancestors. Funny how that works out.
To get the meals just right, Fflamddwyn has set up working relationships with local farmers and fishermen throughout the Sol system, bypassing big distribution companies to purchase ingredients as directly from local sources as possible. Captaining his own starship, the Wild Boar, Fflamddwyn flies out to meet his sources in-person, greeting them in his jolly manner and learning about where his ingredients come from and how they're cultivated. When he's allowed to he loves to participate in the farmwork, in the hunt or on the fishing trip, to really experience how his foods are harvested from nature. By taking a first-hand approach he can not only put a face to his sources, but he can ensure his ingredients are sustainably sourced- maintaining a good relationship with the local environment is important to Fflamddwyn, especially in our present technological age. He pays his sources well for their goods, because he knows they will in turn work to sustain their local ecologies. This is the foundation of Fflamddwyn's Ancient Meals.
It's not too often that Fflamddwyn gets to go on his sourcing trips, as he spends a lot of time on Titan managing his business. He's not too proud to not delegate his responsibilities, as he does hire a full kitchen staff and schedules them for sensible hours, but he will get his hands dirty working the kitchen himself if his managerial obligations are fulfilled- whether someone calls out sick or he's simply scheduled a shift for himself, Fflamddwyn loves to dig in and engage in the little pieces of history his restaurant creates. While he prefers diners eat in to enjoy the full experience of having an ancient meal in the appropriate plate, bowl and utensil, you can order delivery from Fflamddwyn's Ancient Meals. A delivery person will show up at your destination with a round container made from bound strips of gryyth reed- a large Callistan cousin to bamboo- wherein your order can be found, bound up with string inside of a folded palm leaf. No utensils are provided. That is Fflamddwyn's way.