Foodstuffs

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.

• Açaí berry (palm)
• Apple and crabapple
• Apricot
• Bananna
• Blueberry—(see also whortleberry below)
• Blackberry
• Cherry
• Coconut (palm)
• Date
• Dewberry—(similar to blackberries)
• Dewfruit
• Elderberry
• Fig
• Galda fruit
• Grapes—red and white (or "green") varieties
• Grapefruit
• Hawthorn berry (mayhaws)
• Karafruit
• Langon
• Lemon
• Lime
• Mangrove apple
• Miro fruit (and juice)
• Mulberry
• Moonberry
• Naberry
• Nollip
• Olive
• Orange
• Peach
• Pear
• Pineapple
• Plantain
• Plum
• Pomegranate
• Pumpkin
• Raspberry
• Strawberry
• Pok berries
• Uskfruit
• Whortleberry—(either of two types of wild blueberries: red (mountain cranberries, lingonberry) or blue (bilberry or huckleberry[US])

Nuts

• Almond
• Chestnuts
• Goldenseed nuts
• Hickory nuts
• Walnuts
• Xantla nuts
• Yarpick nuts

Vegetables

• Artichoke
• Asparagus
• Beet
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Casava
• Celery
• Cucumber (pickle)
• Leek
• Mushroom
• Olive
• Onion and scallions
• Pea
• Pepper
• Potato
• Radish
• Rhubarb
• Seaweed
• Spinach
• String beans
• Truffle
• Tubers—inlcuding one which is "distressingly yellow-cream colored" grown in the Lone Heath
• Turnip
• Vilosa—a wild, red tuber with meaty flesh; boiled until soft for eating, also used in fabric dye
• Watercress
• Yam

Herbs and spices

• Anise
• Bay
• Caper
• Cinnamon
• Cloves
• Cress
• Dill
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Karispa—peppery wild cress, used as spice or in sauce
• Logod—an extremely spicy condiment beloved by fire giants but unpalatable to almost all other creatures
• Parsley
• Pepper
• Saffron

Staples

• Cornmeal
• Flour (wheat, rye, etc.)
• Honey
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Sugar
• Vinegar

Crop or grain foods (cultivated)

• Barley
• Coffee (see also: kaffet)
• Corn (maize)
• Millet
• Oats
• Pilac—long, brown grain
• Rice
• Rye
• Sugarcane
• Tea
• Wheat

Prepared foods

Regional or local foods

• Central Flanaess—rice and potatoes, with cheese and boiled or roasted meat
• Eastern Flanaess—"rice and potatoes with a variety of meats, especially seafood"
• Old Keoland—"fusion of Central Flan dishes of rice, potato, and meat with some spices and seasonings brought from the west, creating unique flavors"
• Western Flanaess—"rich flavors and spices"
• Potato and rice dishes—common in the Free City
• Spicy bean recipes—common in the south.
• Seafood—the Wild Coast is especially known for this
• "Rice and vegetable concoctions made across the plains of the Flanaess."

Restaurant fare in the Free City

• Red Serpent Restaurant is known for "an assortment of pepper-and-rice dishes".
• Wizard's Hat Inn—"widely known for its excellent spiced venison dishes with potatoes and rice", "specialty roast venison brought in by huntsmen in the Gnarly Forest", simmered and marinated for days.

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, jerked, dehydrated (dried), or pickled; and various portions like filet, shank, hock, ribs, tenderloin, etc.

• Beef
• Fowl
  • Chicken and eggs, seen also as "capon"
  • Duck— Mistmarsh duck
  • Goose and goose eggs
• Fish—trout, salmon, kippers, hogfish
• Mutton
• Pork—bacon, ham
• Venison

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
• Gruel or porridge—cornmeal gruel, barley porridge, oatmeal, farin (cream of wheat), groat clusters, etc.
• Oatcakes—a breakfast food, sometimes eaten with honey

Breads

A wide variety of breads are mentioned throughout many sourcebooks—including rolls, buns, muffins, scones, manchets, loaves; white, wheat, ryeblack, cornbread, etc.

• Biscuits
• Cracker-bread
• Crispbread—crackerlike wafers as long as a man's forearm (eaten by giants)

Deserts

• Cakes—various; including:

Celene Moonberry Cakes

Honeyed melon cake

Faerie cake

• Jam
• Pie
• Pickleberry—(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
• Tarts (fruits, nut, mincemeat)—sweet or savory

Dairy

• Butter
• Cheese

Ketite goat cheese(s)—see also "Molvarti" below

Perrenland cheese(s)—one variety has "great holes and a sharp, vaguely nutty flavor".

• Whipped cream

Meat

• Aspic—meat jelly in a savory gelatin made with a meat stock or broth. Often include pieces of meats)
• Chitterlings (goat)(intestines)—often in aspic (see above)
• Iguana tail (roasted)
• Jerky
• Mincemeat
• Pie, savory pies (meat, steak, and kidney) (meat, fowl, or even fish)
• Sausage (pork and goat), saveloy from Winetha (highly seasoned dry sausage)
• Squab-stuffed pheasant
• Stuffed pork chops

Seafood

• Clams (and giant clams of Fairisle)
• Cockles in laminari—small mussels/shellfish with a delicate flavor
• Crawfish (crayfish) bisque—pink, thick, creamy soup "made from the young giant crayfish from ... Agile Creek"; wine, onion, and herbs.
• Crawfish (crayfish)—boiled in drawn butter
• Pickled fish
• Poached salmon
• Prawns
• Shellfish
• Squid
• Star-eel fillets, also as just "eel"
• Stuffed trout

Excotic dishes

• Ixitxachitl fillets
• Kraken steaks

Specialty dishes

The following are each a specific, named food dish found in the Flanaess or Oerth.

• Almorian Stuffed Stirge
• Celene Moonberry Cakes
• Djekul cheese—creamy, powerfully aromatic cheese
• Galdawood-smoked hogsflesh—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.
• Karafruit sweetchews—small, seedless, sundried karafruit cubes
• Lindenbrook Pale—a specialty cheese made by Rasgon in Pest's Crossing.
• Molvarti—a type of Ketite premot goat cheese
• Okelard cheese
• Pickled Celene skylarks—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.
• Purple worm heart—considered a delicacy (at least by beholders?)
• Quij's Plate—a specialty of the Green Dragon Inn in Greyhawk City, consisting of a heaping bowl of potatoes and undercooked sausages.
• Rabbit Velunaise
• Rock lizard tail—baked with herbs; "considered a great delicacy"; common to the Abbor-Alz and Cairn Hills.
• Salted buffalo steak—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.
• Spiced boar-meat salami—a particular specialty of the Butcher's Guild in the Free City.
• Tusham—a variety of particular sausages which includes smoked, lard, "hard cure" and pronghorn sausages
• Wickler—ivory-colored cheese with greenish marbling from the Yeomanry

See also

See also: Beverages

References

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