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The wide spread of cultures and biomes across Hendalarsk has given rise to a similarly diverse array of food and drink. | The wide spread of cultures and biomes across Hendalarsk has given rise to a similarly diverse array of food and drink. | ||
====Food==== | ====Food==== | ||
Counterintuitively, the strongly environmentalist traditions of the Hendalarskara Catholic Church (and, by extension, most Hendalarskaren) have not actually led to a wide vegetarian movement in Hendalarsk. Instead, the vast majority of Hendalarskaren eat meat and fish ''sparingly'', a custom bolstered by the still-popular tradition of fasting days, with the cultural emphasis instead being on sustainability rather than total abstinence. Hunting of animals like deer and wild boar is a common pastime among rural Hendalarskaren, and the abundance of both species has led to their meat - whether wild-caught or free range - becoming a popular delicacy in urban areas too. | |||
Hendalarsk's abundance of rivers, lakes and coastline have also made fishing a popular pastime across the country, although commercial fishing is even more tightly regulated than hunting, and fish-farming is the preferred approach to mass production. Different fish are popular in different regions of Hendalarsk; the amed [[Vandarch sturgeon]], for example, is an esteemed delicacy in the communities of the Vandarch littoral, and especially in the Pentapolis, but was almost unheard-of even among royalty in the Hendalarskara heartlands prior to the invention of refrigerated transport; it therefore has little cultural cachet to the average Khunyer or Frémenwerder. | |||
The climate of Hendalarsk, which is for the most part temperate but wet, is ideal for growing crops such as barley, oats and rye, all of which are integral to the diet of northern Hendalarskaren. (Wheat is more prevalent in the somewhat hotter and drier south.) Potatoes are Hendalarsk's other staple crop, enjoying broad popularity across all cultures and social strata of Hendalarskara society. Since their introduction into the Vandarch from Kiravia by Burgundian traders in the sixteenth century, potatoes have proven perfectly suited to Hendalarskara conditions, and their high and reliable yields - with the conspicuous exception of the [[Blight of 1773]] - played a significant role in ending famine in the country from the early nineteenth century onwards. | |||
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The nation's most renowned alcoholic export is [[jenwer]], a beverage made from the infusion of various botanicals including juniper into a base of neutral grain spirit. Distilleries specialising in the production of jenwer can be found across the length and breath of Hendalarsk, with more than 300 logged by the Federal Duties Bureau in 2018; as of 2004 it is also the nation's largest alcoholic export by value, although it remains surpassed in volume by the arrayed beers of [[Heferau-Jung-Brauerei]]. While jenwer-drinkers nearer the equator tend to mix the spirit with various tonic waters, the fashion in Hendalarsk is to mix it with ginger ale, ginger beer or fruitades. | The nation's most renowned alcoholic export is [[jenwer]], a beverage made from the infusion of various botanicals including juniper into a base of neutral grain spirit. Distilleries specialising in the production of jenwer can be found across the length and breath of Hendalarsk, with more than 300 logged by the Federal Duties Bureau in 2018; as of 2004 it is also the nation's largest alcoholic export by value, although it remains surpassed in volume by the arrayed beers of [[Heferau-Jung-Brauerei]]. While jenwer-drinkers nearer the equator tend to mix the spirit with various tonic waters, the fashion in Hendalarsk is to mix it with ginger ale, ginger beer or fruitades. | ||