This page is a compendium of food and drinks mentioned throughout the series. As the list grows, it can be better organized and sorted.
Planetary-Based Cuisine[]
Mercurian Cuisine[]
- Soletto - a Mercurian alcoholic beverage.[1]
- Spiced-clove wine - brewed in Keryx.[2]
- Cactus brandy - brewed in Polybos.[2]
- Fennel Sausages[3]
- Pecans - typically served either candied or coated in chocolate.[1][3]
- Sunflower butter (a.k.a. Sun Butter) - a type of butter presumably made on Mercury.[4]
- Nemean Lion - s
Venusian Cuisine[]
- Venusian Fury Cocktail - A drink developed during the Solar War, named in honor of Atalantia au Grimmus. It reportedly tastes of licorice and salt, and is made using rum, stout, and squid ink.[5][6]
- Oysters - Venusian crustaceans are said to be the best.[7]
- Venusian Atolls - a type of wine.[8]
Lunese Cuisine[]
- Doughy Cinnamon Noodles - sold at a stand on the edge of the wharf at the edge of the Sea of Serenity.[9]
- Iced Frizee - a dish typically served as a desert.[1]
Terran Cuisine[]
European[]
- Lagavulin 16 - The favorite whiskey of Lorn au Arcos.[10]
- Sottocenere - A Cheese from the Italian Penisula. It contains licorice, nutmeg, coriander, cloves, cinnamon & fennel.[11]
- European Gruyere Cheese - a hard cheese originating from Switzerland.[12]
- Bordeaux - a type of wine from France.[1]
- Azerole - a hawthorn fruit from the Mediterranean.[13]
- Medlar - a type of fruit from western Eurasia.
South American[]
- South American Prosciutto - an an uncooked, unsmoked, and dry-cured ham.[12]
Pacific[]
- Pacific Sweet Fried Cod - made with a bottom-dwelling fish from the northern pacific ocean.[12]
- Arrack - a strong liquor found in Southeast Asia, distilled from fermented palm sap, rice, or molasses.[14][15]
Martian Cuisine[]
Martian Cuisine is themed around cumin, cloves, and curries.[12]
- Spiced Thesslonican Wine - distilled in the region surrounding Thessalonica on the continent of Apollonia.[16]
- Elysian Red Wine - A red wine from the island of Elysium.[1]
- Ragnar's Vast Hunger - an ice cream desert, slathered with fudge, peanut butter, walnuts, cherries and bananas. Exclusively available at a civilian restaurant at Skyresh Interplanetary Spaceport on Phobos during the Solar War.[17]
Rim Cuisine[]
- Steamed Trout - has the consistency of wet cardboard and the flavor of old cashews.[18]
- Plum Liquor - distilled in Demeter's Garter on Io.[18]
Color-Based Cuisine[]
Red Cuisine[]
Cuisine in Red Culture is defined by food rations given in the mines, and whatever other little wildlife that can be found.
- Pitviper Blood Soup - Popular in lowRed mines on Mars during Yuletide, often served with Flaxbread and Okrablossom.[19]
- Fried Pitviper Eggs - popular in Red mines.[12]
Obsidian Cuisine[]
Cuisine in Obsidian Culture is themed around Old Norse Culture, and what little wildlife is found on the Ice.
- Azag - Berry liquor, colored purple.[20]
- Grog - A type of alcohol.[20]
- Atuka - A dish made of berries mixed with the blubber of an Ice Drake.[20]
- Spirit Berries - Hallucinogenic nuts that grow on Mars' south pole. Similar in appearance to Walnuts.[21]
- Ice Drake Meat - Taken from around the spine, where the most flavorful meat is.[20]
- Ice Drake Brains - Eaten raw in order to preserve the vitamin C.[20]
- Ice Drake Liver - Eaten raw in order to preserve the vitamin C.[20]
Gold Cuisine[]
- Hummingbird Tongues - A popular and expensive delicacy among Golds.[22][15]
- Snails - a prized delicacy.[15]
- Raw Oysters - served as an appetizers[1]
- Sow's Udders - steamed in wine and served as an appetizer.[23]
- Jucellum - an appetizer, presumably a fruit.[1]
- Stuffed thrush - eaten as a main course.[1]
- Stuffed Pachelbel - eaten as a main course.[1]
- Tactun - a dish served as a second course.[1]
- White Pudding - served as a second course.[1]
Miscellaneous Cuisine[]
- Jasmine Ice-Cream
- Custard stuffed dates
- Steamed squid.[12]
- Baiji - a beverage, presumably alcoholic.[15]
Trivia[]
- Lagavulin 16 also happens to be Pierce Brown's favorite whiskey.
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Dark Age, Chapter 92
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Light Bringer, Chapter 04
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Light Bringer, Chapter 05
- ↑ Light Bringer, Chapter 42
- ↑ Iron Gold, Chapter 07
- ↑ Pierce - Twitter - June 6, 2019
- ↑ Iron Gold, Chapter 29
- ↑ Morning Star, Chapter 55
- ↑ Iron Gold, Chapter 51
- ↑ Golden Son, Chapter 51
- ↑ Golden Son, Chapter 48
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Iron Gold, Chapter 31
- ↑ Dark Age, Chapter 92
- ↑ Wikipedia - Arrack
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Iron Gold, Chapter 34
- ↑ Light Bringer, Chapter 07
- ↑ Light Bringer, Chapter 34
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Light Bringer, Chapter 43
- ↑ Red Rising, Chapter 13
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Dark Age, Chapter 44
- ↑ Dark Age, Chapter 41
- ↑ Red Rising, Prologue
- ↑ Dark Age, Chapter 92