Food and Drink

For mentions of cuisines, foods, and drinks in the various species.

Some things here:

Pelted Foods

• Kerinne

Jovian Foods

From one of the Alliance's earliest colonies, based on Ethiopian cuisine.

• Flatbread (described as similar to injera)
• Meat and vegetable stew
• Hibiscus juice
• Deep-fried leeks and zucchini
• Whole-roasted cauliflower
• Shahi tukra (bread, toasted, soaked in a thick, sweet sauce, then toasted again, strewn with golden almond slivers, pistachios, and cashews)

Harat-Shariin Family-Style Dinner

Served either in a large room "with its patrons strewn across the floor of the enormous central room, lounging in one another’s laps and eating from communal bowls, or playing games, or cuddling." Private rooms also available. Most foods designed for feeding one another with one's fingers, eating from the same bowls and drinking from the same cups.

• Sangria (with wine-soaked fruit hand-fed)
• Seafood

UAV Cometfencer

The UAV Cometfencer has a cook--sort of. The Cometfencer has a person who calls himself a cook who spends most of his time scouring the u-banks and newsstreams for new and interesting recipes to feed to the genie. These include the following:

• Cubed and marinated orangefin mackerel on a bed of purple rice, with a vinaigrette of sesame oil, rice vinegar, and rice wine, with crisp onions and near-avocadoes
• Burgers with onion rings and fries
• Axeman ale

Alcoholic Beverages

• Axeman ale
• Heartbomb cocktail
• Gentleman's Punch

Eldritch Foods

• Gentleman's punch