I'd imagine the elves would enjoy some wine, and the humans would have something like vodka.
I think elven wine would be like a slightly alcoholic bearry juice. Super sweet, could get you drunk if you took a bunch, but a good drink no matter where you are. Idk if humans would make vodka, it seems like dwarves would be the ones who would have a liking of that type of hard lichor, though humans may come up with the recipe due to it kinda using corn and potatoes and honey. Stuff you'd usually find on the surface. Dwarves on the other hand, they'd kill you, because they'd need the extra strong shiz
I don't see why humans in a D&D world wouldn't make anything that real-world humans don't.
You'd have to think about what they have access to.
Sure, and you can say that elves have a monopoly on tequila production or something if they control the only place where agave grows, but for the most part any foodstuff that's got a cosmopolitan distribution ought to be something that anyone can make. If humans have potatoes and/or grains, then they should be just as capable of producing vodka as dwarves. There can certainly be some differences between them based on distilling techniques or the base crop used, but it's not like building a still is a hard process.
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I don't see why humans in a D&D world wouldn't make anything that real-world humans don't.
You'd have to think about what they have access to.
Sure, and you can say that elves have a monopoly on tequila production or something if they control the only place where agave grows, but for the most part any foodstuff that's got a cosmopolitan distribution ought to be something that anyone can make. If humans have potatoes and/or grains, then they should be just as capable of producing vodka as dwarves. There can certainly be some differences between them based on distilling techniques or the base crop used, but it's not like building a still is a hard process.
Actually, atleast in terms of biology, and where they tend to live, their cuisine would differ. Dwarves are resistant to harsh poisons and live underground, so potatoes wouldn't be hard to come by, but once they do, they have the ability to make vodka that could kill a human and only give them a hangover
Assuming that dwarves live underground, they'd be more likely to be growing varieties of edible mosses and mushrooms than potatoes. Or rather, edible by dwarf standards. Though just because dwarves are more resistant to toxins doesn't mean that their standard food is lethal by human standards. Dwarven food might just give a human or elf stomach cramps for a while. Or it might not even be toxic since just because they can resist poisons better doesn't automatically translate into them wanting to eat things that are poisonous on a regular basis.
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Assuming that dwarves live underground, they'd be more likely to be growing varieties of edible mosses and mushrooms than potatoes. Or rather, edible by dwarf standards. Though just because dwarves are more resistant to toxins doesn't mean that their standard food is lethal by human standards. Dwarven food might just give a human or elf stomach cramps for a while. Or it might not even be toxic since just because they can resist poisons better doesn't automatically translate into them wanting to eat things that are poisonous on a regular basis.
Poisonous to us. It wouldn't really be to them. Its like how people eat certain poisonous fish if prepared right
I don't see why humans in a D&D world wouldn't make anything that real-world humans don't.
You'd have to think about what they have access to.
Sure, and you can say that elves have a monopoly on tequila production or something if they control the only place where agave grows, but for the most part any foodstuff that's got a cosmopolitan distribution ought to be something that anyone can make. If humans have potatoes and/or grains, then they should be just as capable of producing vodka as dwarves. There can certainly be some differences between them based on distilling techniques or the base crop used, but it's not like building a still is a hard process.
Actually, atleast in terms of biology, and where they tend to live, their cuisine would differ. Dwarves are resistant to harsh poisons and live underground, so potatoes wouldn't be hard to come by, but once they do, they have the ability to make vodka that could kill a human and only give them a hangover
Potatoes don't grow without direct sunlight where I live. Granted potatoes originate from Peru's mountaineous regions IIRC, but still grow in soil where the sun shines. Could dwarves trade for potatoes or have farms outside their tunnels. Sure. The "farming aboveground" dwarves are not exactly canon, though.
Making alcohol is, in this world at least, mostly about extracting sugars from plants and fermenting the must or wort (I believe some nomadic cultures have made alcohol from milk, though). The fermentation is done with yeast which essentially are single cell fungi (don't develop into mushrooms). The most common yeasts are flowing around us in the air and can lead to spontaneous fermentation (this is probably how beer was discovered/invented). Most yeast strains are not able to ferment above 10-14% ABV, and we (humans) have found methods for increasing the alcohol strength in liquid. The simplest is putting a bucket of fermented liquid outside in hard frost. Some of the water in the liquid freezes and when you remove that, the ABV of the remaining liquid has gone up. This was a common method on farms in temperate climate zones in medieval times.
Another method is distillation. It requires a bit more equipment and skill but may have begun as early as 2000 BC in Mesopotamia, Egypt and/or China. Clearly a technically advanced race such as dwarves would be able to do this, elves, maybe, they certainly have glass containers in Tolkiens world and metallurgy, but would they have the inclination to make liquor?
In terms of habitat humans have access to grain and potatoes, elves berries and possibly proto-grapes, dwarves mushrooms and lichen. If you have distillation the sugar content of the wort or must doesn't matter much (for liquor production purposes), you just distill some more water out, but obviously it costs more heat (energy) and time to do so.
Concerning poisons, some if not all can be gotten rid of in the distillation process (if organic it's all about at which temp the poisonous material/concoction evaporates so that might require good temp control) - question is, would the dwarves care? If they trade with other races they might. Removing the poison might alter the taste as well, some might like that, some might deem it untraditional.
This whole treatise because TLDR; potatoes require sunlight :-)
I'd imagine the elves would enjoy some wine, and the humans would have something like vodka.
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I think elven wine would be like a slightly alcoholic bearry juice. Super sweet, could get you drunk if you took a bunch, but a good drink no matter where you are. Idk if humans would make vodka, it seems like dwarves would be the ones who would have a liking of that type of hard lichor, though humans may come up with the recipe due to it kinda using corn and potatoes and honey. Stuff you'd usually find on the surface. Dwarves on the other hand, they'd kill you, because they'd need the extra strong shiz
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I don't see why humans in a D&D world wouldn't make anything that real-world humans don't.
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You'd have to think about what they have access to.
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Sure, and you can say that elves have a monopoly on tequila production or something if they control the only place where agave grows, but for the most part any foodstuff that's got a cosmopolitan distribution ought to be something that anyone can make. If humans have potatoes and/or grains, then they should be just as capable of producing vodka as dwarves. There can certainly be some differences between them based on distilling techniques or the base crop used, but it's not like building a still is a hard process.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Actually, atleast in terms of biology, and where they tend to live, their cuisine would differ. Dwarves are resistant to harsh poisons and live underground, so potatoes wouldn't be hard to come by, but once they do, they have the ability to make vodka that could kill a human and only give them a hangover
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Assuming that dwarves live underground, they'd be more likely to be growing varieties of edible mosses and mushrooms than potatoes. Or rather, edible by dwarf standards. Though just because dwarves are more resistant to toxins doesn't mean that their standard food is lethal by human standards. Dwarven food might just give a human or elf stomach cramps for a while. Or it might not even be toxic since just because they can resist poisons better doesn't automatically translate into them wanting to eat things that are poisonous on a regular basis.
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Poisonous to us. It wouldn't really be to them. Its like how people eat certain poisonous fish if prepared right
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Potatoes don't grow without direct sunlight where I live. Granted potatoes originate from Peru's mountaineous regions IIRC, but still grow in soil where the sun shines. Could dwarves trade for potatoes or have farms outside their tunnels. Sure. The "farming aboveground" dwarves are not exactly canon, though.
Making alcohol is, in this world at least, mostly about extracting sugars from plants and fermenting the must or wort (I believe some nomadic cultures have made alcohol from milk, though). The fermentation is done with yeast which essentially are single cell fungi (don't develop into mushrooms). The most common yeasts are flowing around us in the air and can lead to spontaneous fermentation (this is probably how beer was discovered/invented). Most yeast strains are not able to ferment above 10-14% ABV, and we (humans) have found methods for increasing the alcohol strength in liquid. The simplest is putting a bucket of fermented liquid outside in hard frost. Some of the water in the liquid freezes and when you remove that, the ABV of the remaining liquid has gone up. This was a common method on farms in temperate climate zones in medieval times.
Another method is distillation. It requires a bit more equipment and skill but may have begun as early as 2000 BC in Mesopotamia, Egypt and/or China. Clearly a technically advanced race such as dwarves would be able to do this, elves, maybe, they certainly have glass containers in Tolkiens world and metallurgy, but would they have the inclination to make liquor?
In terms of habitat humans have access to grain and potatoes, elves berries and possibly proto-grapes, dwarves mushrooms and lichen. If you have distillation the sugar content of the wort or must doesn't matter much (for liquor production purposes), you just distill some more water out, but obviously it costs more heat (energy) and time to do so.
Concerning poisons, some if not all can be gotten rid of in the distillation process (if organic it's all about at which temp the poisonous material/concoction evaporates so that might require good temp control) - question is, would the dwarves care? If they trade with other races they might. Removing the poison might alter the taste as well, some might like that, some might deem it untraditional.
This whole treatise because TLDR; potatoes require sunlight :-)
I just recently got the Heroes' Feast Cookbook, and there are three things I've learned from it regarding the more uncommon groups:
The other two little nuggets of info make some sense, but I didn't expect dragonborn to dine on other people.
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