Foodstuffs
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This page lists a variety of natural and prepared foods. All the following are found in the World of Greyhawk™, especially the Flanaess. Though this list is comprehensive, it is not necessarily a definitive one.
Raw Foods
Fruits and berries
The existence of some types of fruits, berries, and nuts are presumed from the presence of the corresponding tree, e.g.—pecans, elderberry, or mangrove apples.
Fruits are often found stored dried.[1]
- Açaí berry (palm)[2][3][4]
- Apple[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and crabapple[5]
- Apricot[5]
- Bananna[13]
- Blueberry—(see also whortleberry below)
- Blackberry[14][15]
- Cherry[8]
- Coconut (palm)[2][3][4]
- Date[16]
- Dewberry[17]—(similar to blackberries)[15]
- Dewfruit[18]
- Elderberry[2][3][19]
- Fig[5][13][20]
- Galda fruit[13]
- Grapes[8][15]—red and white (or "green")[21] varieties
- Grapefruit[5]
- Hawthorn berry (mayhaws)[2][3]
- Karafruit
- Langon[18]
- Lemon[5][22]
- Lime[5]
- Mangrove apple[3][23]
- Miro fruit (and juice)
- Mulberry[5]
- Moonberry[24]
- Naberry[18]
- Nollip[18]
- Olive[5][20]
- Orange[5][8]
- Peach[5][8][15]
- Pear[5][10]
- Pineapple[25]
- Plantain[13][15]
- Plum[5][26]
- Pomegranate[15]
- Pumpkin[15]
- Raspberry[15][27]
- Strawberry[15][28][29]
- Pok berries
- Uskfruit
- Whortleberry[17]—(either of two types of wild blueberries: red (mountain cranberries, lingonberry) or blue (bilberry or huckleberry[US])[15]
Nuts
- Almond[30][31]
- Chestnuts[32]
- Goldenseed nuts[33]
- Hickory nuts[34][35]
- Walnuts[5]
- Xantla nuts
- Yarpick nuts
Vegetables
- Artichoke[15][36]
- Asparagus[15]
- Beet[15][37]
- Cabbage[15][36]
- Carrot[15][32][36][38]
- Casava [4]
- Celery[15]
- Cucumber (pickle)[15][39]
- Leek[15]
- Mushroom[32][40][41][36][42]
- Olive[32]
- Onion[15][32] [43]and scallions[39]
- Pea
- Pepper[32]
- Potato[32][36][38]
- Radish[15][39]
- Rhubarb[15]
- Seaweed[44][45]
- Spinach[36]
- String beans[36]
- Truffle[36][41]
- Tubers[46]—inlcuding one which is "distressingly yellow-cream colored" grown in the Lone Heath[47]
- Turnip[15]
- Vilosa—a wild, red tuber with meaty flesh; boiled until soft for eating, also used in fabric dye[33]
- Watercress[15]
- Yam[36]
Herbs and spices
- Anise[15]
- Bay[5]
- Caper[32]
- Cinnamon[48][49][50]
- Cloves[49][50]
- Cress[21]
- Dill[51]
- Garlic[32][21][52]
- Ginger[49][50]
- Karispa—peppery wild cress, used as spice or in sauce[33]
- Logod—an extremely spicy condiment beloved by fire giants but unpalatable to almost all other creatures[53]
- Parsley[21]
- Pepper[32][54][49][50]
- Saffron[49][50]
Staples
- Cornmeal[1][38]
- Flour (wheat, rye, etc.)[1][38][49][50][55]
- Honey[36][56][57][58][20]
- Olive oil[20]
- Salt[1][38][49][50]
- Sugar[38][58]
- Vinegar[59]
Crop or grain foods (cultivated)
Prepared foods
Regional or local foods
- Central Flanaess—rice and potatoes, with cheese and boiled or roasted meat[66]
- Eastern Flanaess—"rice and potatoes with a variety of meats, especially seafood"[67]
- Old Keoland—"fusion of Central Flan dishes of rice, potato, and meat with some spices and seasonings brought from the west, creating unique flavors"[68]
- Western Flanaess—"rich flavors and spices"[69]
- Potato and rice dishes—common in the Free City[70]
- Spicy bean recipes—common in the south.[71]
- Seafood—the Wild Coast is especially known for this[71]
- "Rice and vegetable concoctions made across the plains of the Flanaess."[71]
Restaurant fare in the Free City
- Red Serpent Restaurant is known for "an assortment of pepper-and-rice dishes".[72]
- Wizard's Hat Inn—"widely known for its excellent spiced venison dishes with potatoes and rice",[73] "specialty roast venison brought in by huntsmen in the Gnarly Forest", simmered and marinated for days.[70]
Types of meat
Meat is prepared in a dizzying array of ways, too numerous to list individually. Some examples include pot roast, steak, or stew; meats may be baked, fried, smoked, salted,[74][75][1] jerked,[76] dehydrated (dried),[77] or pickled[75][78]; and various portions like filet, shank, hock, ribs, tenderloin, etc.
- Beef[79]
- Fowl
- Fish[11]—trout, salmon[41], kippers[85], hogfish[86]
- Mutton[41][21][49][50][79][80][87]
- Pork[41][79]—bacon,[85] ham[88]
- Venison[41][89][90]
General foods
These are "types" of food or dishes which aren't given specific names, or are indicated to be common foods and aren't given specific details.
Miscellaneous
- Kelp[91]
- Gruel or porridge—cornmeal gruel, barley porridge, oatmeal, farin (cream of wheat), groat clusters, etc.[56][60][63][92]
- Oatcakes—a breakfast food, sometimes eaten with honey[56]
Breads
A wide variety of breads[41][36][11][93][94] are mentioned throughout many sourcebooks—including rolls,[95] buns, muffins,[17] scones,[96] manchets, loaves; white, wheat, rye[55]black,[97] cornbread, etc.
- Biscuits[1][84][98][99]
- Cracker-bread[100][101]
- Crispbread—crackerlike wafers as long as a man's forearm (eaten by giants)[53]
Deserts
- Jam[57][58][96]
- Pie[95][105]
- Pickleberry[86]—(any berry such as blackberry, blueberry, or strawberry, which has been pickled. Sometimes served as a sauce on meat or fish, as chutney or cranberry sauce)
- Raspberry torte with whipped cream[27]
- Tarts (fruits, nut, mincemeat)[85][106]—sweet or savory
Dairy
- Whipped cream[27]
Meat
- Aspic—meat jelly in a savory gelatin made with a meat stock or broth. Often include pieces of meats)[52]
- Chitterlings (goat)(intestines)—often in aspic (see above)[52]
- Iguana tail (roasted)[13]
- Jerky[76]
- Mincemeat[21]
- Pie, savory pies (meat, steak, and kidney)[41][36][112] (meat, fowl, or even fish)[113]
- Sausage[1][41][36][87] (pork and goat)[114], saveloy from Winetha (highly seasoned dry sausage)[115]
- Squab-stuffed pheasant[41][36]
- Stuffed pork chops[41][36]
Seafood
- Clams (and giant clams of Fairisle)[13]
- Cockles[116] in laminari—small mussels/shellfish with a delicate flavor[33]
- Crawfish (crayfish) bisque—pink, thick, creamy soup "made from the young giant crayfish from ... Agile Creek"; wine, onion, and herbs.[39]
- Crawfish (crayfish)—boiled in drawn butter[41][36]
- Pickled fish[78]
- Poached salmon[41][36]
- Prawns[51]
- Shellfish[91]
- Squid[13]
- Star-eel fillets,[117] also as just "eel"[39][118][119]
- Stuffed trout[41][36]
Excotic dishes
Specialty dishes
The following are each a specific, named food dish found in the Flanaess or Oerth.
- Almorian Stuffed Stirge[32]
- Celene Moonberry Cakes[51]
- Djekul cheese—creamy, powerfully aromatic cheese[33][106]
- Galdawood-smoked hogsflesh—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.[120]
- Karafruit sweetchews—small, seedless, sundried karafruit cubes[33]
- Lindenbrook Pale—a specialty cheese made by Rasgon in Pest's Crossing.[121]
- Molvarti—a type of Ketite premot goat cheese[33]
- Okelard cheese[109]
- Pickled Celene skylarks—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.[120]
- Purple worm heart—considered a delicacy (at least by beholders?)[122]
- Quij's Plate—a specialty of the Green Dragon Inn in Greyhawk City, consisting of a heaping bowl of potatoes and undercooked sausages.[123]
- Rabbit Velunaise[32]
- Rock lizard tail—baked with herbs; "considered a great delicacy"; common to the Abbor-Alz and Cairn Hills.[124]
- Salted buffalo steak—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.[120]
- Spiced boar-meat salami—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.[120]
- Tusham—a variety of particular sausages which includes smoked, lard, "hard cure" and pronghorn sausages[33]
- Wickler—ivory-colored cheese with greenish marbling from the Yeomanry[33][106]
See also
See also: Beverages
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ a b c d e f g h T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), p.72.
- ↑ a b c d World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.6, Catalogue.
- ↑ a b c d e From the Ashes (1992), p.50, Atlas of the Flanaess.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h "SavageTidings: Beyond Sasserine". Dragon #349 (Nov 2006), p.78.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.6, Guide.
- ↑ Saga of Old City (1985), p.11.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.19, 210.
- ↑ a b c d e "A Return to Falcon's Bazaar". Dragon #271 (May 2000), p.76. Noel Graham
- ↑ Keep on the Borderlands: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.56.
- ↑ a b Night Watch (1990), p.40.
- ↑ a b c d e Night Watch (1990), p.265.
- ↑ King of the Dead. (1996), p.143-144.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Ivid the Undying (1995), p.88.
- ↑ White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.8, 18, 20.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Dungeon Masters Guide (1979), p.220.
- ↑ WGR3 Rary the Traitor (1992), p.14.
- ↑ a b c Night Arrant—Gord the Rogue novel (1986), p.83.
- ↑ a b c d Dance of Demons—Gord the Rogue novel (1988), p.291.
- ↑ Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), p.142.
- ↑ a b c d UK2 The Sentinel (1983), p.21.
- ↑ a b c d e f Saga of Old City (1985), p.148.
- ↑ World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.23, 62, 63, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ "Invaders of the Barrier Peaks". Dragon #280 (Feb 2001), p.91.
- ↑ World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.23, 63, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ a b Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), p.70.
- ↑ a b Dance of Demons—Gord the Rogue novel (1988), p.251.
- ↑ a b c Night Arrant—Gord the Rogue novel (1986), p.66.
- ↑ White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.147, 149.
- ↑ Queen of the Demonweb Pits: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.197.
- ↑ Queen of the Demonweb Pits: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.156.
- ↑ Descent Into the Depths of the Earth: Greyhawk Classics novel (2000), p.35.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.62, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l "A Return to Falcon's Bazaar". Dragon #271 (May 2000), p.74. Noel Graham
- ↑ World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.6, 7, Catalogue.
- ↑ Artifact of Evil—Gord the Rogue novel (1985), p.242.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.13.
- ↑ a b Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.5.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.55.
- ↑ a b c d e Saga of Old City (1985), p.147.
- ↑ WGA3 Flames of the Falcon (1990), p.15.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), p.14.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.69, 71.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.210, 214.
- ↑ Descent Into the Depths of the Earth: Greyhawk Classics novel (2000), p.225.
- ↑ The Eyes Have It (1989), p.98.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.69, 112, 114.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.114.
- ↑ a b "A Return to Falcon's Bazaar". Dragon #271 (May 2000), p.77. Noel Graham
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Dungeon #125 (Aug 2005), p.42 , Area 24. Storage Chamber.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Player's Handbook (2000), p.96, Table 7-3. Trade Goods.
- ↑ a b c d e f g World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.63, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ a b c Ivid the Undying (1995), p.49.
- ↑ a b Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff (1999), p.72.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.50.
- ↑ a b c Come Endless Darkness—Gord the Rogue novel (1988), p.363.
- ↑ a b c Artifact of Evil—Gord the Rogue novel (1985), p.237.
- ↑ a b White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.168.
- ↑ a b c d Queen of the Demonweb Pits: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.232.
- ↑ T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), p.71.
- ↑ a b White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.78.
- ↑ Night Watch (1990), p.149.
- ↑ The Shackled City (2005), p.13, 29.
- ↑ a b Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.84.
- ↑ SJR6 Greyspace (1992), p.61.
- ↑ Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), p.124.
- ↑ Dungeon Master's Guide (2024), p.163.
- ↑ Dungeon Master's Guide (2024), p.164.
- ↑ Dungeon Master's Guide (2024), p.169.
- ↑ Dungeon Master's Guide (2024), p.171.
- ↑ a b World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.81, Gem of the Flanaess.
- ↑ a b c World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.77, Gem of the Flanaess.
- ↑ The City of Greyhawk (1989), p.79, Gem of the Flanaess.
- ↑ The Adventure Begins (1998), p.106.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.40.
- ↑ a b Ivid the Undying (1995), p.45.
- ↑ a b Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.67, 210.
- ↑ ivid, p.114.
- ↑ a b Ivid the Undying (1995), p.113.
- ↑ a b c d The Adventure Begins (1998), p.118.
- ↑ a b c Saga of Old City (1985), p.270.
- ↑ From the Ashes (1992), p.26, Campaign Book.
- ↑ MC5 Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix (1990), p.Encounter Tables.
- ↑ From the Ashes (1992), p.19, Campaign Book.
- ↑ a b c Night Watch (1990), p.223.
- ↑ a b c White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.147.
- ↑ a b White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.307.
- ↑ a b Queen of the Demonweb Pits: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.297.
- ↑ White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.47.
- ↑ The City of Greyhawk (1989), p.81, Gem of the Flanaess.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.4, 5.
- ↑ a b Ivid the Undying (1995), p.51, 52.
- ↑ Keep on the Borderlands: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.96, 282.
- ↑ Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.98.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.19, 25, 26, 67.
- ↑ a b c The City of Greyhawk (1989), p.88, Gem of the Flanaess.
- ↑ a b Descent Into the Depths of the Earth: Greyhawk Classics novel (2000), p.59.
- ↑ T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), p.68.
- ↑ Night Watch (1990), p.197.
- ↑ Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.90.
- ↑ T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), p.15.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.210.
- ↑ World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.82, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ Night Watch (1990), p.72, 76.
- ↑ White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.165.
- ↑ The City of Greyhawk (1989), p.62, Gem of the Flanaess.
- ↑ a b c d e Saga of Old City (1985), p.149.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.25, 26.
- ↑ Keep on the Borderlands: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.185.
- ↑ a b Artifact of Evil—Gord the Rogue novel (1985), p.133.
- ↑ Saga of Old City (1985), p.74.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.105.
- ↑ King of the Dead. (1996), p.115.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.13.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.48.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.17.
- ↑ Ivid the Undying (1995), p.51.
- ↑ a b World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.23, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ From the Ashes (1992), p.18, Campaign Book.
- ↑ Monster Manual (1977), p.36.
- ↑ a b c d The City of Greyhawk (1989), p.31, Folks Feuds, and Factions.
- ↑ Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff (1999), p.68.
- ↑ "Critical Threats:Xollox". Dungeon #97 (Mar/Apr 2003), p.20
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- ↑ From the Ashes (1992), p.32, Campaign Book.
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.
| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almorian Stuffed Stirge | Item | Food, | The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | 62 |
| Celene Moonberry Cakes | Item | Food, | The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | 63 |
| Dewfruit (Fruit) | Item | Flora, Food (fruit) | Dance of Demons | 291 |
| Hosselholt Cheese | Item | Food (cheese), | Living Greyhawk, Living Onnwal Gazetteer, D&D 3.5e | 90 |
| Karafruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit) | The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | 3, 14, 89, 90 |
| Karafruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit) | From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess | 50 |
| Karafruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit) | Oerth Journal #09 | 6 |
| Karafruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit) | Oerth Journal #16 | 54 |
| Karafruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit) | World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) | 7 |
| Langon (Fruit) | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | Dance of Demons | 291 |
| Lindenbrrook Pale | Item | Food (cheese), | Against The Giants: The Liberation of Geoff | 68 |
| Maize | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | SJR6 Greyspace | 61 |
| Naberry (Fruit) | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | Dance of Demons | 291 |
| Nollip (Fruit) | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | Dance of Demons | 291 |
| Okelard Cheese | Item | Food (cheese), | Artifact of Evil | 133 |
| Perrenland Cheese | Item | Food (cheese), | The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | 63 |
| Rabbit Velunaise | Item | Food, | The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | 62 |
| Tusham | Item | Food (sausage), | Dragon magazine #271 | 75 |
| Uskfruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess | 51 |
| Uskfruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | Greyhawk Adventures | 100 |
| Uskfruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | Oerth Journal #33 | 8,9 |
| Uskfruit | Item | Flora, Food (fruit), | World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) | 7 |
| Wickler (Cheese) | Item | Food (cheese), | Dragon magazine #271 | 75 |
| Wickler (Cheese) | Item | Food (cheese), | Saga of Old City | 149 |
| Zaxox Mushrooms | Item | Food, | WGA3 Flames of the Falcon | 15 |