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
- Apple[1][2][3][4][5] and crabapple[1]
- Apricot[1]
- Cherry[4]
- Fig[1]
- Galda fruit
- Grapes[4]—red and white (or "green")[6] varieties
- Grapfruit[1]
- Karafruit
- Lemon[1][7]
- Lime[1]
- Miro fruit (and juice)
- Mulberry[1]
- Moonberries[8]
- Olive[1]
- Orange[1][4]
- Peach[1][4]
- Pear[1]
- Plum[1]
- Pok berries
- Uskfruit
Nuts
Vegetables
- Beet[11]
- Carrot[9][12]
- Casava [13]
- Cucumber (pickle)[14]
- Mushroom[9]
- Olive[9]
- Onion[9] [15]and scallions[14]
- Pea
- Pepper[9]
- Potato[9][12]
- Radish[14]
- Vilosa[10]—a wild, red tuber with meaty flesh; boiled until soft for eating, also used in fabric dye
Herbs and spices
- Bay[1]
- Caper[9]
- Cinnamon[16][17][18]
- Cloves[17][18]
- Cress[6]
- Dill[19]
- Garlic[9][6]
- Ginger[17][18]
- Karispa[10]—peppery wild cress, used as spice or in sauce
- Parsley[6]
- Pepper[9][17][18]
- Saffron[17][18]
Staples
Crop or grain foods (cultivated)
Prepared foods
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; baked, fried, or jerked meats; and various portions like shank, hock, ribs, tenderloin, etc.
- Beef[24]
- Chicken[24] and eggs[12][25][26], seen also as "capon"[25]
- Fish—kippers[27]
- Mutton[6][17][18][24][25][28]
- Pork[24]—bacon,[27] ham[29]
- Venison[30][31]
General foods
- Biscuits[32]
- Bread[33][34]—a wide variety of breads are mentioned, including rolls, buns, manchets, loaves, white, wheat, black, corn, etc.
- - cracker-bread[35]
- Cheese[36][37]
- Cockles in laminari[10]—small mussels with a delicate flavor
- Crayfish bisque[14]—pink, thick, creamy soup "made from the young giant crayfish from ... Agile Creek"; wine, onion, and herbs.
- Gruel, porridge,[38][20][21]—cornmeal gruel, barley porridge, oatmeal, farin (cream of wheat), etc.
- Ixitxachitl fillets[19]
- Jerky[39]
- Ketite goat cheese(s)[10][40]—see also "Molvarti" below
- Kraken steaks[41]
- Mincemeat[6]
- Perrenland cheese(s)[19][40]—one variety has "great holes and a sharp, vaguely nutty flavor".
- Sausage[28]
- Star-eel fillets[41], also as just "eel"[14][42][43]
Deserts
- Faerie cake[44]
- Tarts
Specialty dishes
Special, named foods unique to the Flanaess or Oerth.
- Almorian Stuffed Stirge[9]
- Celene Moonberry Cakes[19]
- Djekul cheese[10][40]—creamy, powerfully aromatic cheese
- Karafruit sweetchews[10]—small, seedless, sundried karafruit cubes
- Molvarti[10]—a type of Ketite premot goat cheese
- Purple worm heart[45]—considered a delicacy (at least by beholders?)
- Quij's Plate[46]—a specialty of the Green Dragon Inn in Greyhawk City, consisting of a heaping bowl of potatoes and undercooked sausages.
- Rabbit Velunaise[9]
- Tusham[10]—a variety of particular sausages which includes smoked, lard, "hard cure" and pronghorn sausages
- Wickler[10][40]—ivory-colored cheese with greenish marbling from the Yeomanry
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ 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 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.
- ↑ World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.23, 63, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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 f "SavageTidings:BeyondSasserine". Dragon #349 (Nov 2006), p.78.
- ↑ a b c d e Saga of Old City (1985), p.147.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.210, 214.
- ↑ 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 World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), p.63, Folks, Feuds and Factions.
- ↑ a b White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.78.
- ↑ a b Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.84.
- ↑ Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.13.
- ↑ Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), p.124.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.147.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.90.
- ↑ Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.98.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.19, 25, 26, 67.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.210.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.25, 26.
- ↑ Keep on the Borderlands: Greyhawk Classics novel (2001), p.185.
- ↑ KotBnovel282.
- ↑ Against the Giants: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.67, 210.
- ↑ a b c d Saga of Old City (1985), p.149.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ White Plume Mountain: Greyhawk Classics novel (1999), p.165.
- ↑ "Critical Threats:Xollox". Dungeon #97 (Mar/Apr 2003), p.20
- ↑ Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk (2007), p.14.
Bibliography
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.
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