Kaladin Didn’t Invent Therapy (And Why That’s Actually Great)

“...You need someone to talk to, Noril, when the darkness is strong. Someone to remind you the world hasn’t always been this way; that it won’t always be this way.” “How do you … know this?” Noril asked.“I’ve felt it,” Kaladin said. “Feel it most days.” - Rhythm of War, Ch. 25 Devotary of Mercy

I’m writing as someone with a background in psychotherapy and peer support, and I'm bursting with excitement about one of my favourite topics. You can imagine why I love Kaladin’s arc in Rhythm of War so much! I actually yelled out loud when I read some of these parts the first time.
I’ve seen people online saying and making jokes that Kaladin invents therapy, and while that could eventually be true, what Kaladin actually invented in RoW is mental health peer support. Psychotherapy as most people would understand it simply doesn’t exist yet on Roshar. However, peer support is a legitimate modality for healing on its own merits. Even more importantly for the story, peer support is something Kaladin would personally really benefit from, and it fits his narrative arc way better than therapy would.
1. Therapy won’t exist for a while yet.

“We need to study their responses, use an empirical approach to treatment instead of just assuming someone who has suffered mental trauma is permanently broken.” - Rhythm of War, Ch. 25 Devotary of Mercy
“Someone needs to talk to them, try different treatments, see what they think works. What actually helps.” - Rhythm of War, Ch. 25 Devotary of Mercy

Obviously, Kaladin has not been educated in battle shock or melancholia or any other diagnosis. In Alethkar there's hardly any knowledge to be had on the subject. Even now in real life, research into effective interventions for various diagnoses is still ongoing, over 100 years after modern therapy was founded.
Building an empirical knowledge base* will take time, not to mention the years it will take to train new therapists across Roshar in how to provide interventions specific to various issues. In the meantime, there are people who need help today, including Kaladin.
Peer support can fill that gap because its knowledge base is different. The group members will bring their expertise, which is their years of trial and error, successes and failures - their lived experience. Peer facilitators need to know the basics of managing a group, and they have to be willing to share their own experiences and learn from the group. Thus, training peer leaders is relatively quick, and incredibly scalable and adaptable across cultures and many mental health issues/diagnoses.
2. Peer Support is a distinct path to recovery that doesn’t require an expert in therapy.

Kaladin located six men in the sanitarium with similar symptoms. He released them and got them working to support each other. He developed a plan, and showed them how to share in ways that would help...Today they sat in seats on the balcony outside his clinic. Warmed by mugs of tea, they talked. About their lives. The people they’d lost. The darkness. - Rhythm of War, Ch. 33 Understanding
“While you can’t force it, having someone to talk to usually helps. You should be letting him meet with others who feel like he does.” - Rhythm of War, Ch. 25, Devotary of Mercy

Kaladin is already positioning himself to align with the values of peer support. Some of these values overlap with therapy, such as dignity, respect, inclusion, hope, and trust. What makes peer support different is a particular emphasis on equal relationships, self-determination, and personal growth (Peer Support Canada, 2022). I’ll explain. In peer support, the group facilitator is not considered an expert like a therapist would be. A peer leader may be further on the road to recovery, but they may not be. They are expected to listen and grow just like any other group member.
Because the leader of the group is also a learner, peer support groups tend to be more collaborative and open-ended. Everyone in the group has something they can take out of it and something to give. Everyone in the group is responsible for managing their own self care, and everyone in the group is responsible for the direction of their own growth. This is different from most therapy groups, which often have a specific focus or goal that the therapist is responsible for implementing. And speaking of responsibility...

1. Peer Support Fits Kaladin’s Narrative Arc Better than Therapy

At his father’s recommendation—then insistence—Kaladin took it slowly, confining his initial efforts to men who shared similar symptoms. Battle fatigue, nightmares, persistent melancholy, suicidal tendencies. -Rhythm of War, Ch. 33 Understanding
…he’d learned—these last few months—that his battle shock could take many forms. He was getting to where he could confront it. -Rhythm of War, Ch. 39 Invasion

I think everyone can agree that Kaladin needs to participate in therapy just as much as the other battle-shocked men he finds in the Devotary of Mercy.
However, in therapy, the focus is solely on the needs of the clients. A therapist should not be distracted by their own issues (when this happens, it’s called countertransference). Further, therapy is generally framed such that the therapist is the only expert in the room, which means therapists have a higher level of responsibility for how the clients are doing (which varies depending on the issue and the circumstances).
In his own recovery, Kaladin is working on trying to take less responsibility for others, so setting him up as a therapeutic authority could be harmful for him. In a position of authority, he might be tempted to replicate the hierarchical structure he was in before (which would impede his own growth), or try to save everyone (which could impede everyone else's growth). He simply doesn’t have the mentorship or knowledge base he'd need to work through those issues before leading as an expert.
In contrast, the point of peer support is the mutual sharing of lived experience. The group facilitator is expected to share their own struggles (as a model of recovery), and allow others to support them. In the context of a more balanced power dynamic, Kaladin can give the other group members the space they need to grow, and he can pursue his own recovery without feeling like he’s letting others down. Also, he will be able to leave the group during KOWT without worrying that the group won't be able to run without him. Everyone in the group carries some responsibility for each other, so group members can come and go with less stress than a change in therapist would cause in group therapy.
This is the beauty of peer support. It can happen anywhere people with similar experiences get together. No formal education is required. What is required is a willingness to know yourself as well as you can; to share your experiences; to listen to others tell their stories; to question your own assumptions as you learn how others handle things differently; to look out for each other's safety; to care.
Peer support creates a place of belonging and a community repository of shared wisdom. Kaladin almost had it on Bridge Four, but his position of authority wouldn’t allow him to grow the way he needed. Peer support is what Kaladin needs - he needs a place where he can take off his armour among people who get it because they're struggling with similar issues. When he (eventually**) attends the groups, they help him grow!
Anyway, that's why Kaladin didn’t invent therapy, and why I think that's great.

For the men chatting together softly, the change was in being shown sunlight again. In being reminded that the darkness did pass. But perhaps most important, the change was in not merely knowing that you weren’t alone—but in feeling it. Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there were others who understood. - Rhythm of War, Ch. 33 Understanding

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*Funny enough, empirical research could lead Rosharan researchers right back to peer support. Empirical research on Earth has shown that modern therapy and peer support have similar levels of effectiveness (for example for depression and PTSD).
**Look who’s resisting attending the groups he founded…KALADIN!! (shakes fist in the general direction of the sky) (This is the most relatable passage for me in this whole book, by the way, helper types unite lmao):

Kaladin looked down at the table. Had it? Had talking to Noril helped? “He’s been avoiding joining in,” Teft said. “I haven’t,” Kaladin snapped. “I’ve been busy.” Teft gave him a flat stare. Storming sergeants. They always heard the things you weren’t saying. - Rhythm of War, Ch. 38 Rhythm of the Terrors

Peer Support Canada. (2022). Peer Support Core Values. Accessed from https://peersupportcanada.ca/ Jun 27, 2022.

Let's Continue Building: d100 Dwarven Cuisine and Ingredients

This list is long, and nearing the 10K mark, so it will be split into two messages. I'm looking for a number of food ingredients and menu items of various qualities, from "Trail Rations", "Street Food", "Home Cooking", and "High Cuisine". The food is sorted into categories of "Ingredient", "Beverage", "Side", "Main", and "Dessert". If you want to invent a new under-dark animal, or make a meal from an existing monster, go for it. Describe the taste, the texture, or the creation process of the foodstuff. Try and provide multiple categories and qualities.

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Part 2: 51-69 Here
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1-50 (In no particular order)

d100	Quality	Category	Food	Credit
1	Trail Rations	Ingredient	Moss-flour; a cave moss-fungus-lichen structure that only grows near luminescent or dimly lit regions of the underdark. It can be eaten raw, easily scavenged on the go, and is mostly flavorless, lightly crunchy, and provides a tiny amount of nutrition; it is usually dried and ground into a flour-like powder and used in making breads and the like. Unlike Bluecap, for which only the spores are edible, Moss-flour is completely edible, if less flavorful overall (Not that either are particularly flavorful).
2	Street-food	Ingredient	Q'tchoop (Dwarven Ketchup), uses fungus and pureed fruits in a ketchup-like consistency.
3	Street Food	Ingredient	Grawr Tolnur or Dwarven Mustard; Dwarves take their mustards seriously. A condiment made from coarsely ground mustard seeds and a harsh selection of herbs and minerals. Compared to a human mustard or an elvish poupon, it’s hard to mistake the bold, robust tang; the strong spice of grawr tolnur, to the milder sweet mustards and pleasant, complex-yet-light poupon. In dwarven tongue, "yellow pleasure" (literally) is a common part of their daily spice intake in an otherwise relatively bland diet. Be warned that if you try to pass off a mild mustard as grawr tolnur, you may make an enemy of the dwarf that you lie to!	[u/Th3R3493r]
4	Street-food	Ingredient	Balıq Şarabı (Literally, "Fish Swimming in Wine"); is a fermented fish-puree sauce. 150 years or so ago, some numpty decided to mix various top-side fruits, spoiled wine, hot peppers, and ...other things... into the same barrel. Since then it's almost a mandatory seasoning for street-food, and sealed ceramic pots of the stuff are even quickly becoming a dwarven household condiment, adding an intense blast of salty, savory, spicy flavor to even the most bland staples.
5	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Plump-Helmet; fungus which grows to the size of, and closely resembles the appearance of a large dwarven helmet. One of the most basic, resilient, and versatile ingredients in a Dwarven kitchen and forms the basis for much of their cuisine.
6	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Dwarven Sugar; dried, ground powder of Sweet Pods, a dwarven staple. The starchy powder is sweet tasting, and can be used to thicken liquids or be mixed with various flours to form sweet-breads.
7	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Dwarven Syrup, Press the oil-juice from Sweet Pods and you get Dwarven Syrup, which can vary in consistency from clear and slightly thicker than water, to nearly dark brown in color and the consistency of honey; used as a sweetener that won't thicken liquid dishes like Dwarven Sugar does.
8	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Fortified Treacle; after you've pressed out most oil-juice from sweet-pods, grind them up, and heat-treat them under high pressure in the presence of water and ethanol. Flavor the pap-like ooze with herbal 'fortification', and press once more. The resulting sweet tar-like liquid is known as Fortified Treacle is a staple of most Dwarven homes, with flavor resembling molasses, tones of coffee, chocolate, tobacco, burnt rubber, and herbal notes that are unique to each individual clan's preferences. Unless heated, it usually has the consistency of pitch, and has to be "chipped" out of the barrel.
9	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Rock-Nut Yeast Paste; Grind up some Rock-Nuts and add Rock-nut Oil, Dwarven Syrup, ground Lauter (cooked grains leftover from making Dwarven beers), Beer Yeast, and some Salt; press into cakes and age for at least a month in a cheese-cave. The resulting paste is spread on toasted dwarven bread.
10	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Rothé; large creatures resemble Musk-ox, and can be used for Hair, Horn, Hide, Bone, Meat, and Milk. Their milk tends to have sour funk to it, resembling a more intense goat's milk.
11	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Purring Maggot; aren't actually fly-larvae, but those of several species of giant beetles. Tends to produce a "milk" as well as edible flesh that serves the purpose of dairy and meat. The milk is mild and has a high fat-content. Smaller, much more docile than Rothé, but don't tolerate as wide of a variation in environmental conditions (light, temperature, humidity) compared to the larger creatures.
12	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Bison Grass; An imported plant has become a near constant flavoring agent in Dwarven Cuisine. A common variety of Hierochloe alpina; its herbaceous aroma suggests chamomile; the flavor is grassy, fruity, with hints of coconut. Because it is imported, it’s more expensive the deeper one goes underground, but is common in larders closer to the surface.
13	High Cuisine	Ingredient	Aged Mammoth / Elephant Cheese; In the Far North and Distant South, are two beasts of different adaptations but similar appearance. Used by Northern and Southern Dwarves as a beast of burden, raised and trained as war machines, trained muscle and livestock; the Mammoth (North) and Elephant (South). The animals’ aged milk-cheeses, considered common-fare among the dwarves where elephantidae handlers are a frequent sight, it is upsold as a rarity everywhere else. If you manage to get elephant cheese cheap from a dwarven merchant, you can clearly see they took a shine to you. Terroir is prominent and starts with the fields and valleys the mammoth or elephant fed from; flavors like pine, valley meadow flowers; cactus fruit, and savanna grasses. After milking and processing, the cheese is traditionally left in ageing chambers to gain body and uniformity of texture; "only" 3 years (for quick racks) to 3 decades (for a wheel fit for sale and the table of kings or conquerors).	[u/Th3R3493r]
14	High Cuisine	Ingredient	True Demi-glace; 'Haqiqat Şoğırlanğan Thahkurs Gūşt'; (literally 'Truth Concentrated Meat Foundation'); the very best of Dwarven Cuisine must have a solid foundation; that foundation is the very essence of meatiness known to the dwarves as "Truth". Haqiqat, is the alchemically distilled essence of finest aged meats; Dwarven Chefs go to great lengths to acquire it. Sub-par sauces do not qualify as Haqiqat, and one may go so far as to start a generations long blood-feud were one to serve a sub-par decoction, passing it off as 'True'!
15	Trail Rations	Beverage	Ground Rock-nut Qaff (Dwarven Coffee). Trail Ration tip: If you soak your Dwarven Cave-Croc jerky in your Qaff it softens, and mellows out the bitterness of the Qaff somewhat. Keeps you warm, full, and awake on long watches.
16	Military	Beverage	Armored Kegs; the contents of a barrel may vary wildly, lagers, whiskeys, wines, or war-gins; the history of the armored kegs is a deceptively simple one. For many militaries, warbands, and militias, courage and morale is usually measured by the alcohol in a soldiers' or man-at-arms' blood and breath. For Dwarves, courage in battle is tied to their inherent code of honor; bravery is found in the sober and drunk alike. Nevertheless, Dwarven culture is a drinking one, thus booze is needed to remind the common soldier and high-ranking general of what and whom they fight for. Normal barrels would break if improperly handled by the inexperienced hands of a soldier, or leak under an enemy's arrows and attacks; to combat this quartermasters banded together to design a keg that could survive enemy fire and still keep a dwarf happy; the booze inside not tasting of foundry dust and soot! (Except when that is precisely what they may seek, flavorwise, but that is another story!) After much trial and error, the design perfected; the inside of an armored keg is a regular barrel modified to screw into a fluffy cocoon of copper or tin placed into an armored shell. It is tradition to safeguard the keg from enemy forces; a sign of the collected spirit and resolve of each troop. A keg is lost, stolen by rival dwarves or enemy forces, the ones assigned to guard it must retrieve it whether assistance of the rest of the troop is given or not; honor demands it. Traditionally, if a keg is destroyed by enemy attack, the remnants of the keg must be retaken and used to forge the new keg. In the eyes of many, a tarnished and beat keg is a thing of beauty as it holds to the grit and resolve all dwarves live for.	[u/Th3R3493r]
17	Street-food	Beverage	'Mahamma Moonshine'; an ancient recipe and process guarded by the Mahankam clan, until a head-brewmaster got shitfaced and sent a drunken love letter on the back of the original mash recipe to his ex in a different clan. A small civil war happened; the brewmaster ran off with his now lover again, and the recipe got spread around without the process. It ranges from boot-leg and off-flavor version of 'Mahankam Moonshine' to Rotgut liquor with a flavor of troll-snot and appearance. Will easily catch on fire (most of the time); a strong, cheap drink; reserved for drunkards, adventurers, and those who want to forget all of their lives. One will eat almost anything while drunk on it.	[u/Th3R3493r]
18	Street-food	Beverage	Borehole 9's Dark Brown Special Fortified Bitter! Officially, the loose amalgamation that makes up the clans living in "Borehole 9" have issued a ruling that the exclamation mark in the name should always be pronounced whenever speaking of this brew; for most Dwarves, the ruling isn't necessary, it's that good.
19	Home-cooking	Beverage	Dwarven Syrup and Fortified Treacle; Small beer, made from a combination of fresh-water, Dwarven Syrup, bread-yeast, and a small amount of Fortified Treacle; the mixture is left to ferment for a few days and forms a slightly sweet, carbonated, lightly alcoholic beverage.
20	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Sweet Warm Maggot-Milk; when young dwarves are offered a treat, or have trouble sleeping, or have to take their medicine, they often ask for flavored Purring Maggot Milk. Parents usually melt a few chips of Dwarven Treacle in warm milk, add a tot of Dwarven Rum, and a pinch of whatever medicine is needed and simmer for a few minutes before serving.
21	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Dwarven Spiced Root-Wine; Dwarven beets and potatoes are as hardy as the dwarves that grow them. When the harsh winds blow hard on one's hearth fires, one reaches for a drink to warm the body and soul. Root-wine is made from the pulp of any beets and potatoes that not be fit to eat or deliberately grown for wine brewing. Snubbed by most wine fans as a "unfit, spit in the face for being called wine", many dwarves enjoy the taste and experience of root-wines. The wine by itself is uber-sweet with the aroma of the earth and rocks it came from. Spices vary from house to house, those which mountain or trade routes could supply. Some wines are tempered with only a spartan amount of salt and vinegar to dampen the sweetness, while others are given cinnamon, nutmeg, arc-root, orc-bane, fox-glove, and a veritable bouquet of flora to alter their flavor.	[u/Th3R3493r]
22	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Alad Krowg (literally 'Fruit Jug' ); most closely matched with the human beverage known as "Kompot" IRL. A fruit drink made with lots of water and all the leftover fruit near the end of a harvest, or when a dwarf feels like adding more to the fruit jug. No Alad Krowg is the exact same and strangely, for being a dwarven drink, is not supposed to be fermented; instead boiled to sterilize the drink and capped to keep fresh; a taste of summertime for a bitter winter's day. Some dwarves exchange personal Alad Krowg in a show of fraternity and to deepen personal ties.	[u/Th3R3493r]
23	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Dry Milk or Mluka Dupat (literally 'milk dust' in dwarven); Livestock does not fair well in cramped caves, but dwarves still want an occasional glass of milk now and then; mluka dupat or 'dry milk' (common tongue) is a dwarven staple that was found by accident. On an expedition into a cold and dry mountain range, a young dwarf brought a skin of milk that had blemishes that allowed moisture to escape; after a long hike, when they went to drink the beverage they got a mouthful of milk flavored dust instead! Before the youth could toss the wine skin in anger, a veteran climber calmed him, tasted the powder and said they would put it into the next water ration as it may become milk again. It turned the water to milk and made a market in the dwarven world, almost over night, as now even the most isolated dwarf could enjoy milk when ever they need its comfort. As word spread and morphed, non-dwarven nobles started to share tales of a group of magical dwarves that could grind the mountain rocks to make creme-snow that turned to milk when put to water. It is a story that was jokingly spread more and more by dwarven merchants until almost all nobles on the continent got a desire to taste the 'rock milk'. As soon as the nobles and gentry began offering large rewards for a cheap milk powder, the human and elvish markets got tricked thinking milk powder is rare as blue diamonds. To the dwarven peasantry, it is a cheap cellar stock item, but to the rich, it is an item to not take dwarven land for.	[u/Th3R3493r]
24	High Cuisine,	Beverage	Half-Pints of Aged Dwarven Rum and Fine Cigars in the Great Room.
25	High Cuisine	Beverage	'Mahankam Secret Nectar': After the “War of the Barrels”; failure to kill the former brewmaster (ran off with a lover from a rival clan), the Mahankam Clan began production again, not ceasing for the past 1,419 years. A palate of bitter notes, sharp tones, and ever-present 'mule kick to jaw'. The old mash recipe may be out in the open, but a tweak to improve on it, the filtration process, herbal soaks, and secret steps in storage is what makes the imbiber keep on coming back for the “Bitter Nectar of the Mahankam Clan”. Pairs well with sweet, savory, hearty meals.	[u/Th3R3493r]
26	High Cuisine	Beverage	“The Missing Master's Moonshine”; to most, a myth or legend, but to a chosen few, the closest to paradise they get besides being in their lover's arms. Some tellings of the love ballad of the “Drunken Brewmaster”, instead of being caught and killed, say the master and lover started production of the original Mahankam Clan Moonshine with all the processes, painstaking steps supposedly held to. Compared to regular Mahankam is not noticed unless one drinks it with a “true one whom you love and loves you back”. If drank with true-love (even at great distances) the bitter notes are dulled and the hints of jasmine, rosemary, and juniper berry dances on one’s tongue. The regular punch of the drink is replaced only with the feeling of your heart filling with a comfortable warmth and a faint dwarven love poem (that worms in the ear, skipping translation, but is still understood). The fly in the balm is "true love" is needed for any of these effects to happen, so many drink it without knowing, and fail to relive it (or those who know they have a genuine bottle can never prove it to a loveless expert).	[u/Th3R3493r]
27	High Cuisine	Beverage	Assassin Vine Wine; dangerous carnivorous plant that doesn't cultivate well, and so must be tended wild. It grows above and below ground, its fruits can be pressed for a bitter juice, fermented, and with great skill turned into an expensive wine. The finished wine is crisp and very dry, and has mildly psycho-active properties; provides a long-lasting feeling of warmth and happiness.
28	Ritual	Beverage	Spirits of the Forge; (Arvohi Vykavać Rwxtar); In truly Dwarven Foundries, stills can be found near the main forge. Every few months (or years for very large keeps) the ash and clinker of the forge must be removed for cleaning; Dwarves stick to a traditional ritual of flushing the cold forge with alcohol as the booze will disappear with the next fire lighting without much effort. All the ash, soot, charcoal that is surplus is shoveled out and recycled or sold to other races. The runoff booze from cleaning the foundry is collected and poured into the still where it is distilled again, and again, and again. Once yearly, the used alcohol is left to flow through a filter tube of activated charcoal, ash, local rocks, and dwarven sand (painstakingly ground quartz and the grindings of precious stones), while a ritual is performed. This runoff it is put into a barrel and saved for drinking or the next cleaning. As it is believed that even with a barrel being used over millenniums, the spirits used to clean a forge holds the history of the forge and what was made in it, tradition dictates that any foundry worker begins their service to the foundry with a stein of fresh cleaning spirits, and retire their service with a shot of the washing spirits. These two actions symbolize the proper starting and ending of things; the fresh alcohol cleans the foundry and ensures the proper function of it, and the shot of forge-spirits shows the fruit and devotion to an ashy, bold, honorable occupation. The flavor is smoky as a red dragon's angry breath, smooth as a blazing hot sword flowing through snow and ice. The parting shot of the spirit of the forge is one of the few times it is expected for a dwarf to cry. If a bottle is found of it in a collection, this is a sign of a great foreman or overseer of a traditional dwarven foundry; do not expect to receive a shot.	[u/Th3R3493r]
29	Prison Food	Main	Maggot Gruel with "Greens"; Food spoils and corpses rot, both lead to flies finding them and maggots (not the Purring kind) coming by the droves; a batch process that takes all the refuse from the hold and sometimes even other local kingdoms. Traditionally reserved as a punishment food for only traitors in military service, prisoners who commit heinous crimes, and merchants who falsely advertise goods or quality. Vats with maggots are tended by a team of dung-farmers (collecting the feces of the town), morticians (usually only allow prisoner corpses or trash monsters but, in war, may throw enemy corpses of non-caring races or deserters), and trash-collectors (who focus on the waste food). The maggots feast until they are ready for harvest, when the vat is flooded with a mixture of warm water and lye. The maggots are allowed to die, swell to the top and burst. The "green" is an algae that purifies the gruel along with adding some nutrients. Not an appetizing dish, but it will keep one alive. In extreme sieges, it has been recorded that the more proud or weak of stomach chose to starve instead of eating the maggot gruel when rations completely ran out. Served cold to those who are forced to eat it, but (even worse) served warm for those merchants who lie to their customers as "blow all that hot air must be rewarded". This one is a nasty dish, but logical for a hold that needs to be kept clean. Reserved for a strong stomach or those who will get a strong stomach.	[u/Th3R3493r]
30	Trail-ration	Main	War Ration Bars; dried marinated war-boar jerky (or whatever jerky you have on hand), Goodberry puree, and Old-Man's-Beard Moss (for fiber as it will eventually give constipation to anyone who has to survive off of it exclusively); compressed into a block for ease of storage and wrapped in a thin layer of wax paper. Pairs will with Mahankam moonshine or bitter dry gins as the bitterness holds down the sweet notes of the Goodberry puree.	[u/Th3R3493r]
31	Trail Rations	Main	Dried Cave-Crocodile Jerky; even Dwarves find it a bit tough to chew, but it will provide adequate nourishment, and help support a good strong Dwarven jawline.
32	Street Food	Main	Dwarven Beard Knots; when dwarves first started to trade with humans and elves, naturally the first dwarven merchants made mistakes on how much food they needed on the travel to which they need to buy from the people they were selling to. In a small town in the Far North, a baker inspired by the first sight of a dwarven beard, made loaves of bread in the shape and style of its weaves and knots. When a merchant guard first saw the bread bread and mistook it as dwarven beard, a throwing ax was chucked at the baker and he was challenged in dwarvish to combat! The baker in shock, not knowing what is happening, looked to the caravan leader for mercy, to which the leader laughed and called off the guard. The leader ordered that "beard that fooled an honest dwarf to think was real" plus 20 more Knots, and paid the craftsman with the guard's ax and 1000 gp in compensation. The story spread fast and the style of bread gained popularity with the old and young alike. Almost all dwarven bakers worth their salt and chin hairs can braid a loaf to the style of a dwarf's beard in their hold. Try it with coarse Black Janderhoff-ian Salt and Truffle Oil or Mustard!	[u/Th3R3493r]
33	Street-food	Main	Rat on a Stick, mustard costs extra. Sometimes, the squirt of Q'tchoop (Dwarven Ketchup) the dealer adds on is mandatory, but included gratis.	[u/Elethana]
34	Street-food	Main	Grilled Alpaca Sausage (Cooked over sprigs of Rosemary and Alder-wood), Q'tchoop (Dwarven Ketchup)
35	Street-food	Main	Steamed Cave Beetle Moss-flour Bao-buns; their meat resembles that of tough crab, the buns are made from flour ground from common cave-moss.
36	Street-food	Main	Purring Maggot in Sweet Cream; Bite sized morsels in a sweet creamy sauce!
37	Home Cooking	Main	Cave-moss and Bean Stew; A hearty, but usually bland stew. According to Ancient Dwarven Religious Edict, stew can only consist of: Water, Boiled Beans, Cave-moss, and Salt; On high holy days it is acceptable to brown some Rothé organ-meat mince and include in the dish, usually tripe, pizzle, liver, or "High-country Oysters". Sometime within the last 1000 years, as religious edicts were relaxed in the interests of fostering trade between the top-side and underdark, an adventurous dwarf skirted the law and added new ingredients: onion, garlic, hot-chillies, and tomato, and "Dwarven Chilli" was born!
38	Home Cooking	Main	Fried Cuy Sausages with Onion (vegetables traded from the surface).
39	Home-cooking	Main	Lacto-Fermented Cave Axolotl and Sauteed Plump-helmet over Boiled Barley
40	Home-cooking	Main	Steamed Blind-Cavefish, with Pickled-Cave-Lemon and Young White-Fungiwood Shoots; Goes good with a pint of Lager.
41	Home-Cooking	Main	Stirfried Purple Fungiwood-hearts and Black Garlic; the heart of Fungiwoods are edible, if prepared correctly.
42	Home-cooking	Main	Lona Mohii Osmonī; (literally 'Sky-fish Nest'), this dish is Roasted Bat (or Stirge, if one can get it) seasoned with Salt, Smoked Cave-fish, Bison Grass, Sliced Cave Carrot; is coated in a layer of Bentonite Clay and ground Moss-flour. The clay hardens as the dish cooks, but is eaten with the meat to celebrate a dwarf's connection with the earth (also absorbs any lingering toxins from any questionable side-dishes they may have consumed).
43	Home Cooking	Main	Kowt Genstaan (literally “Meat Gems”); common to miners who need to eat a hearty dish with little work, guardsmen who see their supply-line fail to deliver, or a ranger who must make every part of a kill be useful. Meat Gems (when it freezes, can be cut like gemstone, polished to shine like one) is a meat jelly dish that can be made of the refuse parts of animals. Put into a kettle of water and left on a long slow boil; the meat falls from the bones, the stock is strained through thin cloth into a large bowl, the bones and unwanted blemishes are removed. The cleansed meat and fat is returned to the stock and slowly mixed until the stock begins to let the meat chunks float in the center. This is allowed to cool and gelatinize. and Served with slice of baked bread, or bit of potatoes; add a dash of Balıq şarabı or mustard and it is fit for a common working dwarf or man!	[u/Th3R3493r]
44	High Cuisine	Main	Qo'ziqorinlari and Truffle Soup; a Dwarven version of Huitlacoche (Corn Smut), prized for its earthy flavor; a delicacy consumed with great zeal.
45	High Cuisine	Main	Spring Onion and Smoked Chicken Sausage Delight; A Savory Pudding, (the chickens are often imported) One can use Diatryma, but the result will be much gamier and lower quality fare.
46	High Cuisine	Main	Poached Young Cave-Fisher in Rothé-Milk and Plump-Helmet sauce; surprisingly tender and delicate when young, it takes a deft hand to poach them without them becoming gooey.
47	Trail Rations	Side	Slices of Smoked Moosh-melon; a woody fungus which tastes reminiscent of melon, which is preserved by wood-smoke.
48	Trail Rations	Side	Hard Cheese, on Cave Biscuit (a dry cracker); either Cow-, Goat-, Rothé-*, or Purring Maggot-Milk.
49	Trail Rations	Side	Potted Cave-Smelt; tiny sightless fish; a common food-stuff on the trail. Tiny fish are salted, smoked, and cooked before "potting". A waxy layer of Purring Maggot milk-fat provides a barrier to air and putrefaction; potted foods can last for many months if not opened. Once opened, the food only lasts for a few days. Their high oil content makes them a nutrient rich snack. Eat with bread, a dry cracker, or mix into a quick trail-side fish stew.
50	Street Food	Side	Fried Hide Strips; the dwarves were not the first to take animal hides and make food out of them (orcish cuisine like 'Kjani Gore'; Blacktongue for 'gore food', raw skins dipped in oil), but these are a staple for a low-budget adventurer who wants meat but cannot afford it, or a copper-pincher who wants a barrel of snack food that should last them a month or three for the low-low price of only a few gold. Fried Hide Strips are a classic bar food in most holds. The hides that get fried are usually ones that are too damaged to repair or make equipment out of, or surplus hides that would flood a warehouse or marketplace, tanking their value. Rarely, instead of scrap hides, a choice few friers focus on the best quality hides and use exotic spices to make simple crunchy snacks an underappreciated treasure. The crunch and smoky flavor of a well made hide strip is a common, but pleasant experience.	[u/Th3R3493r]

To be continued as a comment of this thread.

List Complete, but too big for this post!

d100	Quality	Category	Food	Credit
1	Trail Rations	Ingredient	Moss-flour; a cave moss-fungus-lichen structure that only grows near luminescent or dimly lit regions of the underdark. It can be eaten raw, easily scavenged on the go, and is mostly flavorless, lightly crunchy, and provides a tiny amount of nutrition; it is usually dried and ground into a flour-like powder and used in making breads and the like.
2	Street-food	Ingredient	Q'tchoop (Dwarven Ketchup), uses fungus and pureed fruits in a ketchup-like consistency.
3	Street Food	Ingredient	Grawr Tolnur or Dwarven Mustard; Dwarves take their mustards seriously. A condiment made from coarsely ground mustard seeds and a harsh selection of herbs and minerals. Compared to a human mustard or an elvish poupon, it’s hard to mistake the bold, robust tang; the strong spice of grawr tolnur, to the milder sweet mustards and pleasant, complex-yet-light poupon. In dwarven tongue, "yellow pleasure" (literally) is a common part of their daily spice intake in an otherwise relatively bland diet. Be warned that if you try to pass off a mild mustard as grawr tolnur, you may make an enemy of the dwarf that you lie to!	[u/Th3R3493r]
4	Street-food	Ingredient	Balıq Şarabı (Literally, "Fish Swimming in Wine"); is a fermented fish-puree sauce. 150 years or so ago, some numpty decided to mix various top-side fruits, spoiled wine, hot peppers, and ...other things... into the same barrel. Since then it's almost a mandatory seasoning for street-food, and sealed ceramic pots of the stuff are even quickly becoming a dwarven household condiment, adding an intense blast of salty, savory, spicy flavor to even the most bland staples.
5	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Plump-Helmet; fungus which grows to the size of, and closely resembles the appearance of a large dwarven helmet. One of the most basic, resilient, and versatile ingredients in a Dwarven kitchen and forms the basis for much of their cuisine.
6	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Dwarven Sugar; dried, ground powder of Sweet Pods, a dwarven staple. The starchy powder is sweet tasting, and can be used to thicken liquids or be mixed with various flours to form sweet-breads.
7	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Dwarven Syrup, Press the oil-juice from Sweet Pods and you get Dwarven Syrup, which can vary in consistency from clear and slightly thicker than water, to nearly dark brown in color and the consistency of honey; used as a sweetener that won't thicken liquid dishes like Dwarven Sugar does.
8	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Fortified Treacle; after you've pressed out most oil-juice from sweet-pods, grind them up, and heat-treat them under high pressure in the presence of water and ethanol. Flavor the pap-like ooze with herbal 'fortification', and press once more. The resulting sweet tar-like liquid is known as Fortified Treacle is a staple of most Dwarven homes, with flavor resembling molasses, tones of coffee, chocolate, tobacco, burnt rubber, and herbal notes that are unique to each individual clan's preferences. Unless heated, it usually has the consistency of pitch, and has to be "chipped" out of the barrel.
9	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Rock-Nut Yeast Paste; Grind up some Rock-Nuts and add Rock-nut Oil, Dwarven Syrup, ground Lauter (cooked grains leftover from making Dwarven beers), Beer Yeast, and some Salt; press into cakes and age for at least a month in a cheese-cave. The resulting paste is spread on toasted dwarven bread.
10	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Rothé; large creatures resemble Musk-ox, and can be used for Hair, Horn, Hide, Bone, Meat, and Milk. Their milk tends to have sour funk to it, resembling a more intense goat's milk.
11	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Purring Maggot; aren't actually fly-larvae, but those of several species of giant beetles. Tends to produce a "milk" as well as edible flesh that serves the purpose of dairy and meat. The milk is mild and has a high fat-content. Smaller, much more docile than Rothé, but don't tolerate as wide of a variation in environmental conditions (light, temperature, humidity) compared to the larger creatures.
12	Home-Cooking	Ingredient	Bison Grass; An imported plant has become a near constant flavoring agent in Dwarven Cuisine. A common variety of Hierochloe alpina; its herbaceous aroma suggests chamomile; the flavor is grassy, fruity, with hints of coconut. Because it is imported, it’s more expensive the deeper one goes underground, but is common in larders closer to the surface.
13	High Cuisine	Ingredient	Aged Mammoth / Elephant Cheese; In the Far North and Distant South, are two beasts of different adaptations but similar appearance. Used by Northern and Southern Dwarves as a beast of burden, raised and trained as war machines, trained muscle and livestock; the Mammoth (North) and Elephant (South). The animals’ aged milk-cheeses, considered common-fare among the dwarves where elephantidae handlers are a frequent sight, it is upsold as a rarity everywhere else. If you manage to get elephant cheese cheap from a dwarven merchant, you can clearly see they took a shine to you. Terroir is prominent and starts with the fields and valleys the mammoth or elephant fed from; flavors like pine, valley meadow flowers; cactus fruit, and savanna grasses. After milking and processing, the cheese is traditionally left in ageing chambers to gain body and uniformity of texture; "only" 3 years (for quick racks) to 3 decades (for a wheel fit for sale and the table of kings or conquerors).	[u/Th3R3493r]
14	High Cuisine	Ingredient	True Demi-glace; 'Haqiqat Şoğırlanğan Thahkurs Gūşt'; (literally 'Truth Concentrated Meat Foundation'); the very best of Dwarven Cuisine must have a solid foundation; that foundation is the very essence of meatiness known to the dwarves as "Truth". Haqiqat, is the alchemically distilled essence of finest aged meats; Dwarven Chefs go to great lengths to acquire it. Sub-par sauces do not qualify as Haqiqat, and one may go so far as to start a generations long blood-feud were one to serve a sub-par decoction, passing it off as 'True'!
15	Trail Rations	Beverage	Ground Rock-nut Qaff (Dwarven Coffee). Trail Ration tip: If you soak your Dwarven Cave-Croc jerky in your Qaff it softens, and mellows out the bitterness of the Qaff somewhat. Keeps you warm, full, and awake on long watches.
16	Military	Beverage	Armored Kegs; the contents of a barrel may vary wildly, lagers, whiskeys, wines, or war-gins; the history of the armored kegs is a deceptively simple one. For many militaries, warbands, and militias, courage and morale is usually measured by the alcohol in a soldiers' or man-at-arms' blood and breath. For Dwarves, courage in battle is tied to their inherent code of honor; bravery is found in the sober and drunk alike. Nevertheless, Dwarven culture is a drinking one, thus booze is needed to remind the common soldier and high-ranking general of what and whom they fight for. Normal barrels would break if improperly handled by the inexperienced hands of a soldier, or leak under an enemy's arrows and attacks; to combat this quartermasters banded together to design a keg that could survive enemy fire and still keep a dwarf happy; the booze inside not tasting of foundry dust and soot! (Except when that is precisely what they may seek, flavorwise, but that is another story!) After much trial and error, the design perfected; the inside of an armored keg is a regular barrel modified to screw into a fluffy cocoon of copper or tin placed into an armored shell. It is tradition to safeguard the keg from enemy forces; a sign of the collected spirit and resolve of each troop. A keg is lost, stolen by rival dwarves or enemy forces, the ones assigned to guard it must retrieve it whether assistance of the rest of the troop is given or not; honor demands it. Traditionally, if a keg is destroyed by enemy attack, the remnants of the keg must be retaken and used to forge the new keg. In the eyes of many, a tarnished and beat keg is a thing of beauty as it holds to the grit and resolve all dwarves live for.	[u/Th3R3493r]
17	Street-food	Beverage	'Mahamma Moonshine'; an ancient recipe and process guarded by the Mahankam clan, until a head-brewmaster got shitfaced and sent a drunken love letter on the back of the original mash recipe to his ex in a different clan. A small civil war happened; the brewmaster ran off with his now lover again, and the recipe got spread around without the process. It ranges from boot-leg and off-flavor version of 'Mahankam Moonshine' to Rotgut liquor with a flavor of troll-snot and appearance. Will easily catch on fire (most of the time); a strong, cheap drink; reserved for drunkards, adventurers, and those who want to forget all of their lives. One will eat almost anything while drunk on it.	[u/Th3R3493r]
18	Street-food	Beverage	Borehole 9's Dark Brown Special Fortified Bitter! Officially, the loose amalgamation that makes up the clans living in "Borehole 9" have issued a ruling that the exclamation mark in the name should always be pronounced whenever speaking of this brew; for most Dwarves, the ruling isn't necessary, it's that good.
19	Home-cooking	Beverage	Dwarven Syrup and Fortified Treacle; Small beer, made from a combination of fresh-water, Dwarven Syrup, bread-yeast, and a small amount of Fortified Treacle; the mixture is left to ferment for a few days and forms a slightly sweet, carbonated, lightly alcoholic beverage.
20	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Sweet Warm Maggot-Milk; when young dwarves are offered a treat, or have trouble sleeping, or have to take their medicine, they often ask for flavored Purring Maggot Milk. Parents usually melt a few chips of Dwarven Treacle in warm milk, add a tot of Dwarven Rum, and a pinch of whatever medicine is needed and simmer for a few minutes before serving.
21	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Dwarven Spiced Root-Wine; Dwarven beets and potatoes are as hardy as the dwarves that grow them. When the harsh winds blow hard on one's hearth fires, one reaches for a drink to warm the body and soul. Root-wine is made from the pulp of any beets and potatoes that not be fit to eat or deliberately grown for wine brewing. Snubbed by most wine fans as a "unfit, spit in the face for being called wine", many dwarves enjoy the taste and experience of root-wines. The wine by itself is uber-sweet with the aroma of the earth and rocks it came from. Spices vary from house to house, those which mountain or trade routes could supply. Some wines are tempered with only a spartan amount of salt and vinegar to dampen the sweetness, while others are given cinnamon, nutmeg, arc-root, orc-bane, fox-glove, and a veritable bouquet of flora to alter their flavor.	[u/Th3R3493r]
22	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Alad Krowg (literally 'Fruit Jug' ); most closely matched with the human beverage known as "Kompot" IRL. A fruit drink made with lots of water and all the leftover fruit near the end of a harvest, or when a dwarf feels like adding more to the fruit jug. No Alad Krowg is the exact same and strangely, for being a dwarven drink, is not supposed to be fermented; instead boiled to sterilize the drink and capped to keep fresh; a taste of summertime for a bitter winter's day. Some dwarves exchange personal Alad Krowg in a show of fraternity and to deepen personal ties.	[u/Th3R3493r]
23	Home-Cooking	Beverage	Dry Milk or Mluka Dupat (literally 'milk dust' in dwarven); Livestock does not fair well in cramped caves, but dwarves still want an occasional glass of milk now and then; mluka dupat or 'dry milk' (common tongue) is a dwarven staple that was found by accident. On an expedition into a cold and dry mountain range, a young dwarf brought a skin of milk that had blemishes that allowed moisture to escape; after a long hike, when they went to drink the beverage they got a mouthful of milk flavored dust instead! Before the youth could toss the wine skin in anger, a veteran climber calmed him, tasted the powder and said they would put it into the next water ration as it may become milk again. It turned the water to milk and made a market in the dwarven world, almost over night, as now even the most isolated dwarf could enjoy milk when ever they need its comfort. As word spread and morphed, non-dwarven nobles started to share tales of a group of magical dwarves that could grind the mountain rocks to make creme-snow that turned to milk when put to water. It is a story that was jokingly spread more and more by dwarven merchants until almost all nobles on the continent got a desire to taste the 'rock milk'. As soon as the nobles and gentry began offering large rewards for a cheap milk powder, the human and elvish markets got tricked thinking milk powder is rare as blue diamonds. To the dwarven peasantry, it is a cheap cellar stock item, but to the rich, it is an item to not take dwarven land for.	[u/Th3R3493r]
24	High Cuisine,	Beverage	Half-Pints of Aged Dwarven Rum and Fine Cigars in the Great Room.
25	High Cuisine	Beverage	'Mahankam Secret Nectar': After the “War of the Barrels”; failure to kill the former brewmaster (ran off with a lover from a rival clan), the Mahankam Clan began production again, not ceasing for the past 1,419 years. A palate of bitter notes, sharp tones, and ever-present 'mule kick to jaw'. The old mash recipe may be out in the open, but a tweak to improve on it, the filtration process, herbal soaks, and secret steps in storage is what makes the imbiber keep on coming back for the “Bitter Nectar of the Mahankam Clan”. Pairs well with sweet, savory, hearty meals.	[u/Th3R3493r]
26	High Cuisine	Beverage	“The Missing Master's Moonshine”; to most, a myth or legend, but to a chosen few, the closest to paradise they get besides being in their lover's arms. Some tellings of the love ballad of the “Drunken Brewmaster”, instead of being caught and killed, say the master and lover started production of the original Mahankam Clan Moonshine with all the processes and painstakingly detailed steps they are supposedly held to. The difference compared to regular Mahankam is not noticed unless one drinks it with a “true one whom you love and loves you back”. If drank with true-love (even at great distances) the bitter notes are dulled and the hints of jasmine, rosemary, and juniper berry dances on one’s tongue. The regular punch of the drink is replaced only with the feeling of your heart filling with a comfortable warmth and a faint dwarven love poem (that worms in the ear skipping translation, but is still understood). The fly in the balm is "true love" is needed for any of these effects to happen, so many drink it without knowing, and fail to relive it (or those who know they have a genuine bottle can never prove it to a loveless expert).	[u/Th3R3493r]
27	High Cuisine	Beverage	Assassin Vine Wine; dangerous carnivorous plant that doesn't cultivate well, and so must be tended wild. It grows above and below ground, its fruits can be pressed for a bitter juice, fermented, and with great skill turned into an expensive wine. The finished wine is crisp and very dry, and has mildly psycho-active properties; provides a long-lasting feeling of warmth and happiness.
28	Ritual Ceremony	Beverage	Spirits of the Forge; (Arvohi Vykavać Rwxtar); In truly Dwarven Foundries, stills can be found near the main forge. Every few months (or years for very large keeps) the ash and clinker of the forge must be removed for cleaning; Dwarves stick to a traditional ritual of flushing the cold forge with alcohol as the booze will disappear with the next fire lighting without much effort. All the ash, soot, charcoal that is surplus is shoveled out and recycled or sold to other races. The runoff booze from cleaning the foundry is collected and poured into the still where it is distilled again, and again, and again. Once yearly, the used alcohol is left to flow through a filter tube of activated charcoal, ash, local rocks, and dwarven sand (painstakingly ground quartz and the grindings of precious stones), while a ritual is performed. This runoff it is put into a barrel and saved for drinking or the next cleaning. As it is believed that even with a barrel being used over millenniums, the spirits used to clean a forge holds the history of the forge and what was made in it, tradition dictates that any foundry worker begins their service to the foundry with a stein of fresh cleaning spirits, and retire their service with a shot of the washing spirits. These two actions symbolize the proper starting and ending of things; the fresh alcohol cleans the foundry and ensures the proper function of it, and the shot of forge-spirits shows the fruit and devotion to an ashy, bold, honorable occupation. The flavor is smoky as a red dragon's angry breath but, smooth as a blazing hot sword flowing through snow and ice. The parting shot of the spirit of the forge is one of the few times it is expected for a dwarf to cry. If a bottle is found of it in a collection, this is a sign of a great foreman or overseer of a traditional dwarven foundry; do not expect to receive a shot.	[u/Th3R3493r]
29	Prison Food	Main	Maggot Gruel with "Greens"; Food spoils and corpses rot, both lead to flies finding them and maggots (not the Purring kind) coming by the droves; a batch process that takes all the refuse from the hold and sometimes even other local kingdoms. Traditionally reserved as a punishment food for only traitors in military service, prisoners who commit heinous crimes, and merchants who falsely advertise goods or quality. Vats with maggots are tended by a team of dung-farmers (collecting the feces of the town), morticians (usually only allow prisoner corpses or trash monsters but, in war, may throw enemy corpses of non-caring races or deserters), and trash-collectors (who focus on the waste food). The maggots feast until they are ready for harvest, when the vat is flooded with a mixture of warm water and lye. The maggots are allowed to die, swell to the top and burst. The "green" is an algae that purifies the gruel along with adding some nutrients. Not an appetizing dish, but it will keep one alive. In extreme sieges, it has been recorded that the more proud or weak of stomach chose to starve instead of eating the maggot gruel when rations completely ran out. Served cold to those who are forced to eat it, but (even worse) served warm for those merchants who lie to their customers as "blow all that hot air must be rewarded". This one is a nasty dish, but logical for a hold that needs to be kept clean. Reserved for a strong stomach or those who will get a strong stomach.	[u/Th3R3493r]
30	Trail-ration	Main	War Ration Bars; dried marinated war-boar jerky (or whatever jerky you have on hand), Goodberry puree, and Old-Man's-Beard Moss (for fiber as it will eventually give constipation to anyone who has to survive off of it exclusively); compressed into a block for ease of storage and wrapped in a thin layer of wax paper. Pairs will with Mahankam moonshine or bitter dry gins as the bitterness holds down the sweet notes of the Goodberry puree.	[u/Th3R3493r]
31	Trail Rations	Main	Dried Cave-Crocodile Jerky; even Dwarves find it a bit tough to chew, but it will provide adequate nourishment, and help support a good strong Dwarven jawline.
32	Street Food	Main	Dwarven Beard Knots; when dwarves first started to trade with humans and elves, naturally the first dwarven merchants made mistakes on how much food they needed on the travel to which they need to buy from the people they were selling to. In a small town in the Far North, a baker inspired by the first sight of a dwarven beard, made loaves of bread in the shape and style of its weaves and knots. When a merchant guard first saw the bread bread and mistook it as dwarven beard, a throwing ax was chucked at the baker and he was challenged in dwarvish to combat! The baker in shock, not knowing what is happening, looked to the caravan leader for mercy, to which the leader laughed and called off the guard. The leader ordered that "beard that fooled an honest dwarf to think was real" plus 20 more Knots, and paid the craftsman with the guard's ax and 1000 gp in compensation. The story spread fast and the style of bread gained popularity with the old and young alike. Now, almost all dwarven bakers worth their salt and chin hairs can braid a loaf to the style of every dwarf's beard in their hold. Try it with coarse Black Janderhoff-ian Salt and Truffle Oil or Mustard!	[u/Th3R3493r]
33	Street-food	Main	Rat on a Stick, mustard costs extra. Sometimes, the squirt of Q'tchoop (Dwarven Ketchup) the dealer adds on is mandatory, but included gratis.	[u/Elethana]
34	Street-food	Main	Grilled Alpaca Sausage (Cooked over sprigs of Rosemary and Alder-wood), Q'tchoop (Dwarven Ketchup)
35	Street-food	Main	Steamed Cave Beetle Moss-flour Bao-buns; their meat resembles that of tough crab, the buns are made from flour ground from common cave-moss.
36	Street-food	Main	Purring Maggot in Sweet Cream; Bite sized morsels in a sweet creamy sauce!
37	Home Cooking	Main	Cave-moss and Bean Stew; A hearty, but usually bland stew. According to Ancient Dwarven Religious Edict, stew can only consist of: Water, Boiled Beans, Cave-moss, and Salt; On high holy days it is acceptable to brown some Rothé organ-meat mince and include in the dish, usually tripe, pizzle, liver, or "High-country Oysters". Sometime within the last 1000 years, as religious edicts were relaxed in the interests of fostering trade between the top-side and underdark, an adventurous dwarf skirted the law and added new ingredients: onion, garlic, hot-chillis, and tomato, and "Dwarven Chilli" was born!
38	Home Cooking	Main	Fried Cuy Sausages with Onion (vegetables traded from the surface).
39	Home-cooking	Main	Lacto-Fermented Cave Axolotl and Sauteed Plump-helmet over Boiled Barley
40	Home-cooking	Main	Steamed Blind-Cavefish, with Pickled-Cave-Lemon and Young White-Fungiwood Shoots; Goes good with a pint of Lager.
41	Home-cooking	Main	Stirfried Purple Fungiwood-hearts and Black Garlic; the heart of Fungiwoods are edible, if prepared correctly.
42	Home-cooking	Main	Lona Mohii Osmonī; (literally 'Sky-fish Nest'), this dish is Roasted Bat (or Stirge, if one can get it) seasoned with Salt, Smoked Cave-fish, Bison Grass, Sliced Cave Carrot; is coated in a layer of Bentonite Clay and ground Moss-flour. The clay hardens as the dish cooks, but is eaten with the meat to celebrate a dwarf's connection with the earth (also absorbs any lingering toxins from any questionable side-dishes they may have consumed).
43	Home Cooking	Main	Kowt Genstaan (literally “Meat Gems”); common to miners who need to eat a hearty dish with little work, guardsmen who see their supply-line fail to deliver, or a ranger who must make every part of a kill be useful. Meat Gems (when it freezes, can be cut like gemstone, polished to shine like one) is a meat jelly dish that can be made of the refuse parts of animals. The parts are put into a kettle of water and left on a long slow boil; when the meat falls from the bones, the stock is strained through a thin cloth into a large bowl, the bones and unwanted blemishes are removed from meat and fat. The cleansed meat and fat is returned to the stock and slowly mixed until the stock begins to let the meat chunks float in the center. This is allowed to cool and gelatinize and is then served with a slice of baked bread, or a nice bit of potatoes; add a dash of Balıq şarabı or mustard and it is fit for a common working dwarf or man!	[u/Th3R3493r]
44	High Cuisine	Main	Qo'ziqorinlari and Truffle Soup; a Dwarven version of Huitlacoche (Corn Smut), prized for its earthy flavor; a delicacy consumed with great zeal.
45	High Cuisine	Main	Spring Onion and Smoked Chicken Sausage Delight (A Savory Pudding, the chickens are often imported);
46	High Cuisine	Main	Poached Young Cave-Fisher in Rothé-Milk and Plump-Helmet sauce; surprisingly tender and delicate when young, it takes a deft hand to poach them without them becoming gooey.
47	Trail Rations	Side	Slices of Smoked Moosh-melon; a woody fungus which tastes reminiscent of melon, which is preserved by wood-smoke.
48	Trail Rations	Side	Hard Cheese, on Cave Biscuit (a dry cracker); either Cow-, Goat-, Rothé-, *or Purring Maggot-Milk**.
49	Trail Rations	Side	Potted Cave-Smelt; tiny sightless fish; a common food-stuff on the trail. Tiny fish are salted, smoked, and cooked before "potting". A waxy layer of Purring Maggot milk-fat provides a barrier to air and putrefaction; potted foods can last for many months if not opened. Once opened, the food only lasts for a few days. Their high oil content makes them a nutrient rich snack. Eat with bread, a dry cracker, or mix into a quick trail-side fish stew.
50	Street Food	Side	Fried Hide Strips; the dwarves were not the first to take animal hides and make food out of them (orcish cuisine like 'Kjani Gore'; Blacktongue for 'gore food', raw skins dipped in oil), but these are a staple for a low-budget adventurer who wants meat but cannot afford it, or a copper-pincher who wants a barrel of snack food that should last them a month or three for the low-low price of only a few gold. Fried Hide Strips are a classic bar food in most holds. The hides that get fried are usually ones that are too damaged to repair or make equipment out of, or surplus hides that would flood a warehouse or marketplace, tanking their value. Rarely, instead of scrap hides, a choice few friers focus on the best quality hides and use exotic spices to make simple crunchy snacks an underappreciated treasure. The crunch and smoky flavor of a well made hide strip is a common, but pleasant experience.	[u/Th3R3493r]
51	Street-Food	Side	Toasted Sweet Pods; red-fungal nodules that grow and resemble fat sweet-peas, the starch and sugar content of Sweet Pods lends them well to toasting and eating as a snack food. Normally they are about as sweet as a sweet potato. Sweet Pods are also dried and ground into Dwarven Sugar, Pressed into Dwarven Syrup, and further processed into Fortified Treacle.
52	Street-food	Side	Pickled Cockatrice Eggs: In Dwarvish 'qus jemisi' or literally 'bird-fruit', the disproportionately large eggs of the Cockatrice are pickled and sold as snack-food. Quality vendors add spices to pickling brine, and then pickle eggs after incubating them for a period to allow the young chicks inside to grow. Adding mustard tends to cover up the naturally sulphurous stink of the monster's eggs. Non-dwarves may find the flavor too strong.
53	Street-food	Side	Jellied Slow-Eels; tiny, sightless, cartilaginous eels. They subsist mostly on fungal scum growing in semi-stagnant, shallow pools. Street vendors manage to grow them in large barrels in captivity. Steamed, they are mixed with gelatin, spring onion, flakes of dried, smoked cave-fish, and a sauce made from Balıq şarabı and Dwarven Syrup; and served over boiled grains.
54	Home Cooking	Side	Slow-roasted Cave Cabbage, with a tankard of Borehole 9's Dark Brown Special Fortified Bitter! Just like Mam used to make!
55	Home-cooking	Side	'Spicy' Cave-muck Tuber and Bentonite Slurry: The sauce is to neutralize the toxins from the Cave-muck and provide a really nice earthiness to the poison-heat, you know?
56	Home Cooking	Side	Boiled Luminescent Cave-moss Greens; Extra nutritious, and only slightly bitter. Add onion and sauteed in bacon- or sausage-grease!
57	Home-Cooking	Side	Purring Maggot Cheese; Most dwarven cheese for export is the hard, crumbly, dry, salty "cheddared" sort that stores well, but locally, some dwarven cheeses are young, soft, and melty, with a sweet nuttiness. A gooey glob smeared on some home-cooked bread is just the thing.
58	Home-Cooking	Side	Candied Cave-Carrot; The Cave-Carrot only resembles mundane top-side carrots in flavor, but look like large barrels. The fibrous 'plants' are split into carrot-sized chunks; then need to be soaked in salty-brine for several days, inoculated with a flavorful fungal culture, then dried and aged for a year in the carrot equivalent of a cheese-cave, and then re-soaked for several days in fresh water before being edible. Most commonly, dwarven cooks flavor them up by slow-roasting and then candying them with Dwarven Syrup, and Fortified Treacle.
59	High Cuisine	Side	Salted Chuul Caviar on Boiled Cave-Silk Foam; harvested Chuul caviar tends to be the size of a grape, so one is usually all it takes to top the delicate foams of boiled cave-silk. More of an amuse-bouche than a side, often one of several courses in a high-class dwarven meal; considered a delicacy.
60	High Cuisine	Side	Tempura battered Cave-fisher Cheeks; the muscles that squeeze the silk-glands of the Underdark predator are flavorful and are hammered before frying to be delightfully tender.
61	High Cuisine	Side	Darkmantle Escargot; the blind, underdark ambush predator is gathered while still young, often still in the grub portion of their life-cycle. They are raised in metal-wired pens for a few weeks or months until they achieve optimum size, before their tentacle dentition are fully developed, and cooked in Rothé-butter with herbs. Adult darkmantles can also be eaten, but the meat is considered fit only for the poor, as it must be beaten with a mallet and then braised for the better part of a day before it can be eaten. Adults tend to have gamier meat, almost unpalatably so, even for iron-stomached dwarves.
62	High Cuisine	Side	Q'ate Uyası (literally 'Bug nest bladder'); Spicy "Honeycomb" Tripe, Horseradish, Black Garlic, and Star Anise Soup, long ago dwarves once traded with the elves for flavorful staples such as Ginger, and rare spices such as Star Anise and Wild Horseradish; none of which grow well under the conditions that most dwarves find themselves to commonly occupy. Dwarven royalty would be treated to the aromatic experiences of these foods, and only rarely would the common folk get to experience such refined tastes. Several thousand years later, some human cultures grow and trade ginger and horseradish, ranging far and wide for spices with their ships and caravans; this has lowered the cost and rarity of the ingredients in this dish, now even the moderately wealthy can occasionally afford to experience the finer things in life. Most dwarves enjoy crunching on the anise pods and whole ginger-roots, while chewing the tripe; lots of fresh horseradish and garlic really bring the dish to life. Typically Tripe from Cattle is used in the dish, but dwarven communities further underground may occasionally substitute Rothé instead.
63	Street-food	Dessert	Jüzüm Teşik (Literally 'Cave Grapes') are a type of phosphorescent aphid-like beetle-larvae cultivated on Sweet Pod roots; grown to the size of a large grape. Best consumed fresh; sold still alive at most street vendors. The 'grapes' are drowned in a broth 'u Sharobdan' (literally 'drunk on wine') made with high-strength wine, vinegar, and salt; and then promptly deposited into the mouth; they pop with a delightfully sweet taste, balancing the vinegar. In drunken death-throes, their 'juice', a defensive compound they excrete when frightened, causes the sauce to glow and adds extra depth of flavor, lost when the 'grapes' come pre-killed.
64	Street-food	Dessert	Fried Fungi-wood Shoots and Dwarven Sugar; Fungiwood shoots are sliced thinly, deep fried, and coated in dwarven sugar; served warm, with a small dollop of ground Rock-nut, spices, and Dwarven Syrup.
65	Home-cooking	Dessert	A special treat of Smoked Ham-brosia; Ambrosia, with chunks of smoked ham!
66	Home-Cooking	Dessert	Jellied Sausage Cake with Sweet Pickle; Ask any dwarf if 'Bıljır Nhầy' (literally 'mucous sausage') is a dessert, and you'll either be punched in the face, or told that, "Yes, it is, but only on holidays". Every year, someone in the clan makes this traditional dish, gives it away, passing it from family to family as if they were the ones who made it (think of a holiday fruit-cake). Eventually family members stuck with the dish on the eve of a special holiday, are "forced" to eat it, thanking the person they received it from; who then pretend that they too ate the dish to the person they received it from, etc.
67	Home-Cooking	Dessert	Cave-Bear Claws; simple fried dough stick that is coated in powdered Dwarven sugar with the subtle addition of ground Bison Grass. Most dwarves prefer it fried in sweetened lard made of boar-fat but, any oil will work for others. Sometimes served with a sweet 'gravy' (fat, sugar, syrup, flour, and milk given heat to thicken) or a jam.	[u/Th3R3493r]
68	Home-Cooking	Dessert	Pầalçıq Kēk Behet (literally 'Mud Medicine Cake'); Dwarven grandparents make these desserts for young dwarven children. Originally, medicinal in nature, designed to stretch limited resources for hungry children; generally tasty and wholesome enough to be given as treats for good behavior. The traditional recipe: a slurry of Bentonite Clay mixed with ground Cave-moss flour and a small amount of Dwarven Sugar. To this, the elder-dwarf cake preparer adds small amounts of medicinal mineral compounds, and hides the bitter flavor minerals with medicinal herbs, then hides that bitterness with Dwarven Sugar and a fine powder of ground Bison Grass. Cakes are often prescribed to clear out intestinal parasites, as well as cure vitamin deficiencies. Most adult dwarves look back on the taste of Mud Medicine Cakes with fond nostalgia.
69	High Cuisine	Dessert	Pickled Cave-Lemon and Raisin Tart with honey sweetened Rothé-milk whipped cream and spiced Dwarven-Rum syrup;
70	High Cuisine	Dessert	Bird's Milk Cake; many layered cake of buttercream custard and a light savory sponge cake; a dish that takes time and patience to perfect, and precise timing that only a master-chef or a mother-dwarf will ever see and complete. Occasionally given a crystallized sugar to decorate the top and give it audible crunch, a foil to the soft and sweet layers of the pastry.	[u/Th3R3493r]
71	Ritual	Dessert	Sonnlinors' Hlaaf (literally 'Hammer Clerics' Bread'); religious meal for orthodox dwarves; reserved for the altar of Moradin; eaten on Hammer 1st, the Dwarf Father's Blessed Day. Made the finest ingredients a dwarf can find; leavened with scions of the master yeast from which the stronghold's best alcohol is produced. In the mix of the leavened dough, blessed gold dust, mithril powder, and even gem grindings are placed in as it is kneaded to the sound of a chorus of hammers striking anvils and working alloys into arms and armor. Cooked on the heat of the forges, instead of a common oven (as is willed by Moradin) to evoke his blessings on the meal. When done, it sits and is placed in an ore cart, cleaned and decorated for the occasion. At the table, all honorable dwarves are let to sit and part take in the bread. If an outsider is accepted by the clan for act of bravery and valor, they also sit and partake in the bread as Moradin wills it. None is left to stale or be uneaten, and no one at the table of Moradin goes hungry on that day.	[u/Th3R3493r]
72	High Cuisine	Beverage	Golden Outlander A heavily alcoholic spiced wine. It is an unhealthy amount of spices, rhubarb, powdered gold and silver for 'Flavor'. First made by a wandering minstrel preforming in a fortress. While mocking the elves he made this as an example "Of what Elves eat". Turns out it was actually good, but rhubarb and spices tend to be difficult or expensive for dwarves to acquire; often drank only by the wealthy or on special occasions.	[u/MalarkTheMad]

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