Still appropriate. I'm sure Chef can make this and any other appropriate technical problems his own dish. The plates are set! The ingredients are gathered! A delicious problem awaits for a culinary expert of all things living. How does one best serve an army on a desert theme? With camels and horses or some other exotic species to carry the main course's flavor (and luggage)? With pigeons or hawks for messages delivered quickly from scouts as the appetizer to engagements? What food best keeps an army fed in dry heated weather? Will the desert sink a souffle?!
Damn, now I'm hungry. TO BREAKFAST! /wanders off