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Rusana's national cuisine descends from two traditions, the Nasrid-Islamic tradition of tastes and ingredients, and the [[Daxia]]n frontier cuisine peppered with more exotic ingredients brought by traders. Breakfast in Rusana tends to be a light meal consisting of fruit, tea with milk and honey and bread. Lunch is the heaviest meal of the day and usually a time where all the family gathers to eat together, Rusani people tend to always try to make time to have lunch at home. Lunch usually features horse and lamb meat in various presentations, platters of olives, bread and spiced rice. Dinner is lighter than lunch but The consumption of horse meat has existed for millennia, cemented among the idiosyncrasy of the people of the region by the myth of [[Gilgeam the Horse-Eater]]; a folk hero native to Rusana. Horse eating was frowned upon at first by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate|Oduniyyads]] who held horses to be prized companions in war, yet they were never able to stamp out the practice completely and it resumed after they had crumbled. Today horse meat is consumed in many forms, from smoked steaks, to boiled horse guts, kept as dry meat or jerky, salted sausages or marinated in lemon juice. Lamb meat or mutton is also a staple, lamb chops are served with rice, spices and boiled vegetables; since lamb tends to be a little cheaper than horse meat, it is more accessibly to people of lower incomes.