Food and drink

"Ssaelit won’t eat anything that comes from the sea, which they believe is where Hell is. No one in Kasslyne eats eels or dogs."

## Regional Fare

### Cuisine of Cresce

"Crescian fare is known for being an exquisite balance of sweet and savoury, but Cresce also has more regions than many other countries, so a lot more variation within it. Bread pockets stuffed with spicy-sweet stewed greens and goat is something Iori would serve but over on the coast you’d see grilled seafood flavoured with citrus peel, bitter root vegetable salads, and in the south, which is nearly tropical, it’s all rich coconut milk-inspired stews and sickly sweet fruit compotes and marmalade-slathered game meats."

They have a certain style along the River Jarla that’s unique in Cresce - after all it’s a big country, there should be regional differences in cuisine. Iori Ripa’s specialities are peppered stewed river greens, spicy purple carrots and Hedgeapples, smoked turtle bacon, giant mushroom caps called spellsingers (after wright’s hats) stuffed with pork sausage, onions, and pickled garlic, and fried fish tucked into bread pockets with greens, fried again, and dipped in a chili mayonnaises. Just really fresh, light, immaculately seasoned food to contrast with the heavier, stick-to-your-ribs stuff in Alderode.

"The state has nonperishable rations that it will send if a town has difficulties filling out its citizens’ diets, but what you eat depends on where you live. Each town is responsible for planning its own menus and feeding its own citizens, with the state stepping in if it receives complaints that this is being done poorly or unfairly. Keeping the menu at the local level incentivizes the local farmers, local kitchen, and local authorities and also encourages everyone to keep a garden and livestock to supplement and diversify their diet.

The Crescian state is pretty flexible[, a] lot of responsibility is given to each town. The towns know best what their population needs, and the state is present to distribute each town’s bounty equitably throughout the country.
Sounds pretty good on paper, and works reasonably well in practice, but of course some Crescians are just a little more equal than others. The noble families live in the capital - the hub of the country’s administration and vital supply storage - and so have access to all the finest goods that Cresce produces. People who live in the fertile southern half of the country can keep their own gardens most of the year, and always have fresh produce. Up north they’re stuck eating a lot more out of jars and cans when winter hits.

But everyone has their Labor Points [for luxuries], and can spend them on niceties beyond their rations. Eating only your rationed diet in some towns can be perfectly satisfying but elsewhere, like Ethelmik which didn’t have much local agriculture, it’s beans and tinned turnips. You’re gonna want to work hard in them mines, earn your LP, and trade for sausages and cake."

The four annual Gefendur feast day meals are giant grandiose local affairs of many tables each carrying the same dishes from which attendees self serve. For Tirnasday the tables center around a large roast pork main dish with many varied side dishes alongside scattered jars of spices and dipping sauces. Side dishes generally consist of stuffed mushrooms, dumplings, syrup-soaked fritters, sausages, seafood, vegetables, candied flowers, fruit and cups of beans or stew. Blackberry wine is traditionally available to drink. Complicated side dishes which may require Pymary to prepare such as Compressed Veggie Sticks and Bubble Clams adorn the tables. Everything is either prepared in or cut to portions allowing festival attendees to easily take a piece for their individual plates. Pymaric serving platters and wine dispensers help create an opulent festival atmosphere, though more elaborate pymarics can hamper serving food rather than make it more easy.

### Cuisine of Alderode

"Aldish food is very stodgy, bland, and high in fat. In life, Duane couldn’t have handled anything too spicy, but had a high tolerance for salt and fermented flavours. Lots of cured meat and sausages and pickled veg." "The Aldish eat pretty heavy food[.] Buttered monny (like a goat) sausages with fried potatoes and carrots, pigeon chowder with onions and lots of pepper, giant skullcap mushrooms stuffed with smoked pork, garlic, and spinach and slow-roasted, pumpkin stew with beans and chicken, barley bread fried in oil and topped with sugar and stewed plums, tea with monny butter and pepper, hot spiced wine, and lots of beer." "Alds pickle everything, [...] beets, radish, mushroom, peppers, garlic sprouts, and cabbage" are all pickled.

The coastal Ginnals very greatly in the amount of seafood available. "Durlyne is majority Ssaelit so the local government tries to cripple the fishing industry with regulations and seafood bans. [In] Valyne though, which is supermajority Gefendur, and all your fishy dreams come true. Giant octopus and whale steaks, prawns for days, huge herring plants that prepare them in all possible configurations. Ssaelit tend to get a lot of psychosomatic nausea from the smell of seafood though, so they don’t feel they’re missing out. It’s unclean, like eating bugs or dogs."

### Cuisine of Sharteshane

"The country is a long and skinny strip of mostly volcanic land that hugs the sea, so they’re highly dependent on the sea for their sustenance, and small game like guinea pigs, rabbits, and squirrels. As far as vegetables go, you’re looking at potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, seaweed, and long green beans." Common dishes include Salted fish pie, peppery chowders, sickly sweet puddings soaked in liquor, roasted herb-encrusted pigeon, candied fruits, fiery hot stew flavoured with Bloodbasin chilis. "But the general populace is poor and will throw dandelions and dressed rats into their stews in a pinch. Most of their grains are brought in from Madishane. Sharteshane’s got [some of] the worst cuisine of anywhere on the continent [due to their lack of domestic viable farmland and the low quality of the foodstuffs for their poorer citizens], Sette’s pie obsession isn’t accidental; even the worst cuts of meat from the foulest sources taste okay heavily spiced and stewed and put into a decent pie crust." Despite Sharteshane's poor reputation on feeding its own and food in general "it’s widely agreed that no one can compare with the seafood of Sharteshane." Tinned fish and various seafood chowders are very common and easily available food there.

### Inak Cuisine

Inak eat a lot of mushrooms, beetles and lichens. "Meat’s precious though. [I]t’s a happy day when one of their giant rodents is slaughtered for a feast and trussed up over a fire to smoke. Back in the old days, the male wanderers would show up with varpies, snails, dried fish from underwater caves, and the rarest prize - giant millipedes. They’d trade with the families for armour, clothing, cookware, rodent jerky, ‘shrooms, or even just a night with a willing lady."

## Foods

### Basic Ingredients & Condiments

* Bloodbasin chilis
* Chili Mayonnaise
* Milk (Pig Milk, Monocorn Milk)
* Monny Blood
* Pepper
* Ranga seeds
* Taron
* Vinegar
* Virt

### Produce

* Blackberries
* Dandelion
* Carrots
* Garlic
* Gooseberry
* Green Beans
* Hedgeapples
* Lemons
* Mushrooms
	+ Giant Skullcap Mushrooms
	+ Spellsingers
* Onions
* Pea Root
* Potatoes
* Pumpkin
* Rush Nut
* Sweat Beans

### Meats and game

**Livestock:**

* Monocorn
* Pork
* Hrk'hishmm

**Wild game:**

* Frog
* Rabbit
* Rat
* Squirrel
* Venison

**Poultry:**

* Jarla Hens
* Pigeon

**Seafood:**

* Clams
* Crawdads/Mudbugs
* Herring
* Octopus
* Oysters
* Prawns
* Sardines
* Strawberry Fish
* Tortoise
* Turtle
* Whale

### Dishes/Food Products

* Bacon
* Bread
* Bubbles & Pearls
* Bubble Clams - (Cresce)
* Cinnamon Sticks
* Fritters
* Laerfhel - (Alderode)
* Oyster Chowder - (Sharteshane)
* Pickled Beets & Onions - (Alderode)
* Peppered Purple Carrots & Hedgeapples - (Cresce)
* Pie
	+ Handpies
	+ Blackberry Pie
	+ Gooseberry Pie
	+ Sweet Pea Pie
	+ Fish Pie - (Sharteshane)
	+ Mincemeat Pie
	+ Pork Pie
* Pigeon Chowder - (Alderode)
* Pirozhki - (Alderode)
* Pocket Sandwiches - (Cresce)
* Prawn Chowder - (Sharteshane)
* Stewed Greens
	+ Stewed River Greens - (Cresce)
* Stewed Pigeon Zongzi - (Cresce)
* Strawberry Fish
* Stuffed Caps
* Tinned Sardines - (Sharteshane)
* Turtle Bacon - (Cresce)

## Beverages

* Beadman’s Imbiblicals
* Blackberry Wine
* Coffee
* Monny Milk
* Rose Milk - (Alderode)
* Tea

## Restaurants & Eateries

### Ulestry

* Knobbytop Provisionry & Cafe

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