Food and Drink

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

Some things here:

Pelted Foods

Foodstuffs

Fruits and Vegetables

  • carelberries, a fruit eaten on Aren in pastries with nuts[1]
  • chenfruit
  • tana, a Aren fruit [1]
  • kalven nut
  • More-almond
  • rooderberries (from Harat-Sharii) [2]
  • millberries
  • Asaniian bittersweet (used in calming teas)
  • wildfood (this is a generic term for any not-farmed food from any planet)
  • Terran-origin fruit and vegetable species:

In Some Things Transcend, Borden says something about 'fruits from the terrien family' being from Seersana or Karaka'Ana.

Snack Foods

  • Cheese and hot pepper popcorn, and chocolate-caramel (or maybe candy crunch) popcorn[7]

Desserts

Drinks

  • Kerinne
  • A stimulant beverage that looks like coffee, smells like chocolate and herbs, and is strong enough to make your hair stand up.[7]
  • Axeman ale [10]
  • Heartbomb cocktail [11]
  • Paga has a seaweed alcohol in Healing Waters, I think?
  • Lisinthir drinks seltzer water with "some liquor made from an astringent seaweed native to Seersana, brightened by a twist of lime." [12]
  • Tepoli amber[13]

Food and Genies

  • At the time that Alysha Forrest was on the UAV Songlance, the ship's genie had 3,429 "basic" chocolate chip cookie recipes, of which "the healthiest" was nothing to write home about.[7]
  • A recipe can be scanned multiple times to create variation so that each iteration isn't identical.[14]

Rations and Emergency Foods

  • K-plus ration[15]
  • Vitamin-plus rations, which went out of fashion for logistical reasons[15]
  • Compressed bars, sometimes called ration flats,[5] made of various combinations of fruit, honey, grains, or nuts[16][17][18][19][20]

Foods by Culture or Location

Jovian Foods

From one of the Alliance's earliest colonies, based on Ethiopian cuisine.[21]

  • 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

Normally served 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.[12]

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

UAV Cometfencer Restaurant

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.[10] 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

UAV Stardancer Restaurant

The Stardancer's restaurant is a bistro called the Cat's Fang. One of its waitresses is a Tam-illee named Sashe.[22]

  • Tiramisu[22]
  • Apple dumplings, made with apples from trees growing on the Stardancer[22]
  • To do: url to the menu at the restaurant mentioned in Major Pieces, In the Kitchen at Brooke's, after that story

Chatcaavan Foods

Customs

  • Food is largely eaten with the fingers; claws are used to slice and tear. There is knife at a place setting, but there is something reminiscent of a fork.[19]
  • At the Throneworld Court, important figures have poison-tasters. The Emperor chooses his own by assessing who values him most, and "some say that the feeling is mutual."[20]
  • Meat may be slaughtered in advance, but in private dining may be killed at the table by the diners[19]

Foodstuffs

  • Extremely meat-heavy[19]
  • Raw food is common--fruit, vegetable, and meat--but some prefer a char on their meat for the flavor. It is still cooked drippingly rare.[19]
  • Vegetables shaped like red spears[19]
  • Lightly glazed fowl rolls[20]
  • Flavored ices, including one "that reminded Lisinthir of both mint and lime."[19]
  • Candied flowers[20]

Drinks

  • Juice[20]
  • Tea-wine, a drink sometimes served with breakfast[23][20]
  • Brandylike before-dinner drinks, blood-dark, tasting of fire. Unpalatable to some Pelted[19]
  • A strong after-dinner brandylike drink that smells of wood-smoke and fruit.[19][20]
  • Wine "with a strong, fruity body and a dry bite"[20]

Eldritch Foods

  • Gentleman's punch[24]
  • Saerrie-flower tea (this is in Wingless, but based on the name it sounds like it's probably Eldritch in origin? Or maybe Pelted?)[19]
  • see Seni Village#Candy shop, it lists Pynade among other foods.

Faulfenzan foods

  • iiza fluffy and smeared with nector
  • Naadize, roastable.[25]*
  • Paipai nuts -- Eyes as round as paipai nuts [26]

Specific Meals

Dark Lighthouse

(I think this is probably Terran foods since it's stuff that Avram Hancock learned from his mother, but it's possible that he's from the Moon or Mars or something?)[14]

  • Bread and butter
  • Tortellini, stuffed with wildfood, cheese, and mushrooms
  • Tomato sauce
  • Cheesecake drizzled with caramel and chocolate


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Claws and Starships, "Rosettes and Ribbons"
  2. ↑ Earthrise, Part 1
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Who is Willing, Chapter 8
  4. ↑ Rose Point
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 13
  6. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Impetus"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Who is Willing, Chapter 2
  8. ↑ Who is Willing, Chapter 6
  9. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Inescapable Dawn"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Faith in the Service, Chapter 8
  11. ↑ Faith in the Service, Chapter 9
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  13. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Prologue"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Dark Lighthouse
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Second, Chapter 2
  16. ↑ Second, Chapter 6
  17. ↑ Second, Chapter 5
  18. ↑ Second, Chapter 9
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 19.9 Even the Wingless, Part One
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 Even the Wingless,, Part Two
  21. ↑ Girl on Fire, Chapter 13
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 1
  23. ↑ Major Pieces "Deserving"
  24. ↑ A Rose Point Holiday, Chapter 1
  25. ↑ Zafiil (Fiction) page 210 of 454
  26. ↑ Zafiil (Fiction) part 1, Chapter 21, kindle page 270 of 454
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