Ainwae foods

Dark elf food: Lots of mushrooms and underground giant
insect meat, lichen meal for grain, salty. Usually grilled,
steamed, boiled, or baked. Fancier eatings include bat meat
and milk, and spider egg pods. With a limited amount of what
can be eaten that isn't poisonous, most dark elves adapt and
try to find a way to make it edible anyways. Some cave spider
venoms are cooked thin to make a very biting sauce, and the
creatures of the deep cave waters, while risking hunting, tend
to yeild a fairly good amount of material.
Typical breakfast: Lichen noodles served in a salted broth,
sometimes with pan fried egg or mushroom.
Typical lunch: Strips of giant insect meat, grilled with
mushrooms over a bed of broiled kelp or lichen. Venom sauce
optional. May substitute meat strips for grilled larvae.
Typical dinner: Salted steamed insect meat, with a side of
egg and grilled mushrooms.
Typical drink: Fermented spider wine.

Dwarven food, Mountain: Pickled everything, but mostly tubers
and ground meats made into sausages. Heavy in easy vegetables
like cabbage, carrots, potatoes and the like. Alcohol is
actually not that great- not a lot of land for farming wheat
and other ingredients needed for a good beer. Vodka is about
as good as it gets. Also plenty of salt.
Typical breakfast: Grilled, salted potatoes with goat cheese.
Accompanied with a pickle.
Typical lunch: Ground sausage with a blood sauce, served in
broth with cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.
Typical dinner: Pickled vegetables and a hunk of goat steak
or ham, mashed potatoes and a thick brown gravy.
Typical drink: Potato vodka

Orcish food: Smoked meats, usually goat and other mountain
dwelling foods. Rotisserie meals, and a small bit of farming
in the foothills of hardy vegetation like cabbage and tubers
of sorts. Stews are common, throwing big potlucks of whatever
a tribesman has to offer. Jerky is spiced with a rather winter
hardy species of pepper, also used in many dishes. Orcs love
their food spicy. Some go ice fishing for the hearty salmon
that swims up the mountain rivers.
Typical breakfast: Spiced jerky, maybe a small bowl of rice on
the side.
Typical lunch: Smoked meats served with slices of dried pepper
on a thick dark grainy bread.
Typical dinner: Potluck stew of goat meat, peppers, animal broth
and fish.
Typical drink: Fermented goat's milk

Dwarven food, Surface: Masters of the barbeque and of fried
foods. Lots of livestock meats; chicken, beef, pork, etc.
If they can get their hands on it, they can fry it. Ales and
delicious ciders abound from traded fruit crops with the
halflings, and wheat and barely make for good beer. Have taken
a little bit of most everyone's food and made it theirs due to
expansive trading across the continent. A cultural melting pot.
Typical breakfast: Fried potato strips, bacon, eggs, and toast
Typical lunch: Toasted wheat stacked with strips of meat,
cheese, lettuce, and tomato.
Typical dinner: Fried and breaded chicken, mashed potatoes with
a white gravy, corn on the cob, and pea soup.
Typical drink: Apple and cinnamon cider

Halfling food: Much more vegetarian, with crops ranging from
all sorts: fruits and veggies of every imaginable type. Have
figured out how to use greenhouses to keep crops going year
round. Fans of small game, hunted and trapped mostly for sport
and also the fun that comes from fishing. Fish dishes are a
big deal in halfling cuisine. Great at being able to fix a
dish that suits any pallete. Wines are a big party of their
drinking habit, and most towns and villages have some sort of
yearly celebration and communal grape-stomping event.
Typical breakfast: Hotcakes with berries and honey
Typical lunch: Grilled fish, roasted potatoes and peas
Typical dinner: Pheasant or squirrel, oven broiled in it's
own fat with a bed of potatoes and carrots, with cabbage stew
served on the side.
Typical drink: Strawberry ale

Goblin food: Stews and gumbos are most common, with whatever
kind of game they can catch. Watery lands make for good rice
crop, and their quick eyes and nimble fingers help to gather
all sorts of natural growing berries, nuts, and spices.
Alchemical knowledge is one of the highest cultural learnings,
and knowing your spices is a big part of that. When not stewed,
fish and the like can be served up almost like sushi- in thin
strips on a bed of rice, served with some kind of citrus or
juicy pepper to "cook" the meal as you eat it. Swamp bugs can
also be fried up and served.
Typical breakfast: Pan fried swamp beetles, spiced to taste
Typical lunch: Trail nuts and berries with a flame roasted
fish for actual sit-down meal
Typical dinner: Seafood gumbo, with crustacean and fish,
seasoned with swamp peppers, bay leaves, and usually some sort
of home grown spice recipe
Typical drink: Rice wine

Wood Elf food: Wild game is a big part of their diet, with
hunted deer, elk, rabbit, and so forth. Grilled, pan fried,
boiled, or roasted- and with plenty of garnishings from all
sorts of naturally growing plants. Every part of the animal
is used, in a variety of dishes. Stewed muscle, grilled liver,
even the bone marrows is a delicasy. Most vegetation is harvested
from the wild, and not much farming is done.
Typical breakfast: Wild nuts and berried in a bowl of deer
milk
Typical lunch: Grilled deer, served with kale and apple slices
Typical dinner: Grilled tongue and slow cooked heart of the
earlier deer, with mashed liver and wild berries afterwards
Typical drink: Berry wine

High Elf food: Like their culture, a lot of high elven foods
are made with magic- sculptural chocolates and spun sugar in
detailed models of high elven landmarks. The large lake that
takes up most of their territory leads to a lot of fishing,
and with that comes a variety of masterfully prepared sushis
and sashimis. Elven cooking is an artform, learned and perfected
over decades and centuries of experience. Forest fruit wines
and garnishes adorn any kind of hunted game, and it's not an
elven feast if there isn't at least one wild boar with an
apple in it's mouth.
Typical breakfast: Sugar and cinnamon on a pan fried slice of
bread in egg whites, side of whatever fruit is personally
preffered
Typical lunch: Grilled fish on a bed of lettuce and caviar,
served with lemon for taste and a bowl of rice with soy bean
sauce
Typical dinner: Roast board, stuffed with breaded stuffing,
grilled with an apple in it's mouth on a bed of vegetables
with sides of cheese and chocolate fondue
Typical drink: Peach ambrosia

An'umian Human food: The desert yeilds not a lot, but the
riverside villages manage to harvest a bountiful crop of
exotic fruits and vegetables just before the flood season.
Scorpion, snake, and a variety of fish are usually spit roasted
and seasoned to taste with sea salt. Lots of grains and hardy
fruits like melons are part of the farming culture, and they've
got a thick bread-beer that is a staple in their culture.
Diced peppers are the biggest of vegetables they use, and
those who have little experience with spice tend to be in for
a bit of a shock
Typical breakfast: A few pieces of fruit with a glass of milk
Typical lunch: Couscous served with diced peppers and salted
to taste
Typical dinner: Roast snake or fish, spiced with pepper seeds
and a bowl of brown rice, peppered and salted
Typical drink: Bread-beer

Faren Yen Human food: Sharing a watery environment close to
the goblins, rice is a staple dish. A lot of their cultural
food comes from the time when they were ruled under the Olveri
empire, so fish dishes and fancifully prepared foods are a
must. They've also managed to work out a lot of their dishes
with various nuts added in, and peanut sauce is quite a
common sight. Sugar cane grows plentiful, and most animal
farming consists of smaller fowl and pigs.
Typical breakfast: Bowl of rice with a fried egg on top
Typical lunch: Noodles in chicken or pork broth, with a few
various diced veggies stewed with it.
Typical dinner: Fried fish, rice, and green beans with peanut
sauce. Sometimes pork instead of fish with a curry sauce.

Yurielan Human food: wide expanses of land and the general
massive size of Yuriel makes for food of a wide variety, all
depending on where you are. The coastal villages and towns
such as Haemfistaed are known for their seafood, while inland
you find hamlets where roast pig and tilled vegetables are
the norm in an almost Halfling fashion. They trade with almost
everyone, and are a kingdom of bounty- most anything is available
to all, and with an equally high mixing of other races into
the kingdom, so too are the foods mixed. Even lacking the
right ingredients, an Orc might substitute tomato with his
smoked ham and serve it on dwarven rye. Dairy cows are one of
the biggest farming assets, and milk, cream, and cheese are
a sure ingredient in most any meal alongside with plenty of
grain.
Typical breakfast: Oatmeal served with cream, fruit jam, and
a pinch of sugar
Typical lunch: Salted pork with a hunk of bread and a savory
broth.
Typical dinner: Beef stew with vegetables, bread rolls, and
a roast chicken seasoned with salt, pepper, and lemon
Typical drink: Honey mead