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dipped in bubbling cheese, with or without a type of chili, are the most successful ventures. 6. What is the absolute weirdest thing eaten? The weirdest thing eaten would have to be the scent of food, typically fruit, which sustains many of the fey folk without them actually ingesting anything at all. The majority of them can eat, but only in tiny portions and usually for social reasons, like celebration, rather than due to hunger.

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be lightly stir fried vegetables and nuts, and perhaps even some meat, with noodles. But be cautious about the sauces, since the metropolis gathers cooks from all over the east and beyond. There is only one hill city in the north, and street hawkers are rare due to competition from the plentiful hospitality hostels, where good food and clean lodgings are both available for a pittance, thanks to the social programs of the four Princesses. Still, where it is found, toasted nuts or breadsticks

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5. What is the street food like? In the great commerce city to the south, kababs are on every market street corner, and are generally both inexpensive and delicious, along with flat bread, and sticky candy much like baklava or Turkish delight. The capitol city of the east, however, is more decorous regarding street vendors, and restricts them to tents, carts, and booths to ply their wares. Here, though, you can find virtually anything to your taste. Still, the majority of offerings tend to be

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a sweet potato pie, while the children play with the empty gourd rinds. To the plains people, the autumn equinox means it is time to stop following the cattle herds so closely and head back to their winter campsites, the end of their year. Therefore they celebrate their abundance by eating everything that would be inconvenient to carry on that long journey. Often grey geese migrating overhead are brought down, to combine with end of summer berries, and special butter made from mareâs milk.

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of sun and moon. Edible flowers are surprisingly popular, along with fish to symbolize prosperity, and fortified wine to salute the new year. Because the summer solstice heralds the beginning of the dry season in the south, that is when they do their feasting. In some ways it is like a grand communal barbecue; much mead is drunk and all of the remaining prior yearâs rainy season stock of root vegetables, tubers, and gourds are hollowed out and the contents made into something rather like

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Traditional society-wide holidays, as opposed to more personal festivities, do have some characteristic foods that are always seen. In the north, the winter solstice which marks the days getting longer again, is the most important holiday; snowcream is a favorite of the children, but toasted nuts and mulled wine have become ritually significant as well. The eastern Central Kingdom places most emphasis on the spring equinox, and many delicacies are consumed at that time to welcome the balance

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4. Are there any traditional holiday foods? Yes, although these vary with the local cuisine and holidays observed by any one particular civilization. Common occasions for celebration are the solstices and equinoxes, weddings, naming days, and sometimes wakes. Feasting is a major element in any party, of course, and the preferred foods of those concerned usually make up the major portion of the menu. Desserts are always plentiful, and may be associated with small âfortunesâ, toys, or charms.

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The north is unique in its extreme fondness for sweets; it is said that this is because the government is matriarchal and women love confections, but in reality it is simply that high energy sugary compounds are useful in the cold. Likewise, the nomads of the vast desert prize fatty foods to keep their skin supple in the arid air.

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3. Are foods more sweet, salty, sour, or spicy? A travelersâ rule of thumb is that any one dish will be found to be spicier in the south, sweet and sour in the east, salty in the west, and sadly bland in the north where fewer seasonings grow and all must be traded for. This does not completely hold true, but it gives one a rough idea of what to expect. Also, the denser the vegetation, the more likely the food is to be spicy, since more herbs and spices are available in those areas. (cont)

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