Food and drink

Quetzl: Qutzl foods tend to be meat and vegetables grilled or roasted with lots of spicy sauces. Often served in separate bowls then combined by the diner from a set of central bowls shard by every one at the table, who mix and spice the food in their own bowl or plate. Sometimes a common mixing bowl is used in which the dinners combine the meal, which changes depending on who is setting at the table. Often Diners not familiar with Quetzl cuisine are surprised by the potent sauces and spices creaated by the Quetzl

Cesti: Cesti food is often slightly seared meat with herbs, sauces, and vegetables used for flavoring. Cesti Meals are often a communal one in which the diner carves the cut they want from a single roast or sometimes the entire animal. Cheeses, sauces and lots of Bomahd are usually served with the roast meat. Recently the Cesti have developed a taste for a Tae standard food, the hamburger, several Cesti hamburger chains have opened, serving large thick burgers with fries and onion rings as their only menu selection.

O’Maeda. O’Maeda cuisine is sophisticated and highly refined with pastas, sauces and many seafood, fowl, and shellfish based dishes. Cheeses, mushrooms and wine sauces are often used for flavor and garnishes with salads and soups served before the main course. O’Maeda detest beers and liquors but drink wine and ciders with almost every meal. O'maeda meals are usually eleborate with several courses served by the hosts servants. culinary refinement and ettiqutte are considered reuired for proper culture by the O'maeda. at time Presenting a meal or hosting a party seems to be a competitive sport among the O'maeda Matrons.

Valkiir: Valkiir foods are simple, hardy, and make use of many meats, sausages, fruits and cheeses served from a central set of serving trays with each person selecting their foods and eating from their own plates. Valkiir food doesn’t make use of many sauces or gravies, with the food being served with thick bread, soup or stews. Valkiir eat several times a day and often have bread cheese fruits and cold meats around to snack on throughout the day. To fuel their extremely fast metabolism the typical Valkiir needs almost twice the daily rations of a Tae, or O’maeda, but they can survive indefinitely on normal rations. The just get grumpy if they don’t get their snacks.
After contact with the Tae Valkiir have added common Tae snack foods to their diet, and seem to have a major sweet tooth, their bodies using the sugars and fats to keep them going better than their typical protein rich diet.

A’Niss: A’Niss serve seafood and shellfish with light sauces and steamed or stir fried vegetables. Most A’Niss do not eat red meat or fowl, or eggs, cheeses, strong, spices in their foods. Most A’Niss prefer a light very crisp flavor and small servings of their favorite foods; oddly enough certain A’Niss enjoy a special blend of peppers and spices that most people, most Quetzl for that matter, find excruciatingly painful.

Q’sa: Q’sa eat to live not to enjoy, most of their food is simple and almost tasteless, often they serve a lump of meat, some vegetables in a thick stew, in the field Q’sa will often hunt and kill wildlife to supplement their supplies. That’s their side of the story; many people seem to think they just like to eat their meat right off the bone, STILL BLEEDING!

Onai: You REALLY do not want to think about it.




Beverages:

Alcoholic Beverages:

M’poc, a potent alcoholic beverage made of fermented plant tubers, flowers and a weak solution of QzNk that has a powerful kick when imbibed by non Quetzl. M’poc is a favored drink in many locations due to it’s powerful effect and the warm slightly sweet cinnamon flavor.
Effects: Intoxication Fortitude DC 16 to resist
Purchase DC: 6
Restriction: None +0

S’Barri a fine light colored, slightly bubbly wine brewed on several Tau worlds, it comes in several distinct blend ranging from a dry, cler to a light pink fruity variation popular as a desert wine. Relatively low alcohol content makes it a choice for casual drinking or to be served with meals.
Effects: Intoxication Fortitude DC 10 to resist.
Purchase DC 6-12
Restriction: None +0

Bomahd: A Cesti Beer with a rich amber color and rich flavor popular with both Cesti and Tae for casual drinking and with spicy foods. “Boma” is brewed from a mixture of cereals and fruits, native to Cetu the Cesti Homeworld.
Effects: Intoxication DC 10 to resist.
Purchase DC 5-8
Restriction: None

Star Glow: A light colored sweet wine with high alcohol content and harmless bioluminescent algae added to give the wine its trademark blue shimmering glow. Star Glow is a popular and trendy drink often used as a mixer to add flavor and a slight glow to mixed drinks.
Effects: intoxication DC 12 to resist.
Purchase DC 8
Restriction: none

Soyko: a bitter dark ale with a slight after taste and lots of alcohol. One of the most common brews available it is brewed from whatever grains and cereals are easily available at the local brewery. Not a refined drink but it gets the job done.
Effects: intoxication DC 12 to resist.
Purchase DC 4
Restriction: None
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:38, Mon 18 Feb 2008.