GLOGTOBER 6: FOOD

So food, huh? Food. Foooooooood... Food. What can you say about food... What can you say about food? Food is... uh... I feel like I'm back in high school, trying to start an essay.

This is tofu. I'm a vegetarian. Just wanted to let you know.

Local Cuisine

1. The locals eschew any kind of cooking, preferring to instead magically sanitize their meat and consume it raw. They generally use a variety of fermented vegetables to add flavor to their meals.
2. A rather local religion greatly restricts the eating of cattle, the staple livestock of the area at large. Instead they eat wheat-based meat substitutes, often accentuated by the small amounts of meat acquired from the small, flightless birds that live in the area
3. Almost all the cuisine contains a ton of spices, chiles, and garlic. Asking the village elders will reveal it is a precaution against the evil stench of vampires, for they are common in the nearby hills.
4. While not a common food, special occasions warrant a meal of aether squid, a type of semi-incorporeal cephalopod that wraps it's tentacles around leylines to suck some of the energy out. With the right charms, they can be rendered fully tangible and speared by special harpoons. They are served with a plum sauce and taste like normal squid, but have a numbing effect similar to Sichuan peppercorns.
5. Food is largely flavorless, and the main item is a fish known as the demmy that tastes rather oily. Any attempts to add spices or other such sources of small flavors is seen as heretical.
6. Funerals end with friends and family consuming a small part of the deceased's liver, as that is said to be where the soul resides. Similarly, they avoid eating liver in any other situation, and carefully removing the liver is the first step of butchering any animal.