Food

Emphasized with a great deal of herbs and spices. While beets, potatoes, asparagus, mushrooms, cheese, chevon and fish will make up the majority of meals, they are made distinct and tasty through the litany of herbs and spices grown within the Glassier district. Due to the nature of the fogs surrounding Sanctus, plants that grow without much sunlight are abundant. Fish, coming from the seaside city of Koraka, city of Crows, come pricy in the markets.

Spices and herbs make the more basic options able to stand out. Combinations of the multitudes of spices lead to varied and strikingly distinct tastes, which have become an odd staple for the cursed of Sanctus. Food carts make their way around the better off districts of the city, often brightly painted in order to stand out. The aroma of cooked cod, freshly baked breads, perfectly smoked monster meat, and a wide variety of herbs fill the noses of those who venture toward the carts and stores who sell such wares. The food businesses of Sanctus actually thrive, many of whom praising themselves on unique dishes featuring the best of imported goods from the other cities.

Common foods: Potatoes, asparagus, mushrooms, fish, beets, goat’s meat, cheese.

Common herbs: Mustard seed, mint, thyme, parsley, arugula, basil, dill, chervil, cilantro, chives, garlic chives, watercress, and alpine strawberries.

Common spices: Coriander, mustard seed, paprika, garlic, ginger.

Sweeter foods, made from sugars and syrups, are actually common. Around Cohor, the mangled and twisted white trees—called sweet-trees due to their sap, or bone-trees due to their ivory appearance and texture—contain a sugary, sappy interior. Able to be tapped and scraped away, this soft pink substance is astoundingly sweet.

Fruits are rarer than vegetables, with much less variety. The only common fruit is that of the  fogvine, a dark-flowered plant with tough black thorns that flourishes throughout the Gatelands. Its berries vary in taste from bitter to sweet, depending on the color of the blossoms. The most common varieties are red, blue, and purple, red being the bitterest and purple the sweetest; black fogvine is rare, but its berries are known for having a strong and distinctive flavor, comparable to that of pomegranates but with a much more citrusy tang. The blossoms themselves can be crushed for their juice, which creates a much milder flavor than the berries.