So I’ve talked about the northern whaling and fishing industry and eventually I’ll get around to talking about transportation of food but I wanted to talk about the other land’s various food supplies and their exports to give a general sense of what people are eating and what they have access to.

Humann cuisine is almost entirely built around meat with traditional dishes often including rock berries or their derivatives and often some lime or other zest fruit from the southern desert. The meats are almost always salted except in the rare circumstances you buy the meat straight from a hunter pack coming back form the west and there have been some other methods of preserving the food in the heat of the desert such as pickling or dust freezing both of which are somewhat experimental and not really trusted.

Gwarven food is very varied from coast to coast with the majority being grain focused, many towns having a series of bakeries primarily produce food for export. The other large staple of the gwarven diet is horse meat as they raise them both for riding and bearing goods and for food purposes with two breeds being raised specifically for this purpose. Gwaves often have fish on their plates too due the busy trade with the northern villages and the cobalt sea and their own fishing villages in the eastern lowlands.

The havlin are an aquatic people but they mostly export their fish and oysters to other places on Eir choosing for the most part to not eat them. This is mostly a cultural thing but it is also based on their physiology, most of the fish in the cobalt sea are high in amino acids which don’t sit well in high concentrations with the havlin people. They mostly live off imported grain, dried sea weed and a blue moss called Finner found near the bottom of the sea.

Orckran are a tribal majority so many of them simply eat meat but a lot of them have taken up large agricultural set ups farming large mushrooms called black stem that are great for eating. The black stem is native to the western coastline and only grows well out of the sunlight so most of the farms are in cave systems of the deepest parts of the swamplands near there. They also import fish from the cobalt sea.

The nomes don’t have much in the way of farmland with most of their settlements being at high altitudes although outside the capital they do grow fennel flowers in large numbers which are then dried and pressed into chocolates which is perhaps their biggest export which they brought over from the western seas about forty years ago and is made with goat milk.