Meals: These vary according to price and type, with more expensive meals emphasizing variety and freshness. A good evening meal may consist of rice heaped high with fresh mutton, figs, dates, and olives pulled from the tree, finished with honey-candies. A more common evening meal (in a town or city) would be a simple ragout or meat stew, with bread, and fruit. A poor evening meal consists of just rice, perhaps with dates, dried fruit, a bit of tripe, or a strip of dried meat.

Jelly Delight is generally served as small squares of sweet jelly gusted in very fine sugar. It is commonly flavoured with lemon juice or rose water.

Fruit: Figs, Dates, Olives, Pomegranate, Oranges, Lemons and Almonds are the most common fruits.

Coffee is readily available at most food outlets. Generally served strong and black, the grounds have been boiled in water to make a strong, fairly bitter brew. Sweet Coffee is also available, although that is more expensive, where the sugar has been cooked in with the coffee. Coffee is not, generally, sweetened after it has been cooked.

Koumiss: A drink of fermented mare’s milk, koumiss (KOO-miss) is very potent, and is more popular among the tribes of The bad Lands, than in the city.

Sherbet: A sweet fruit drink in Zakhara. It is often sold by vendors roaming the streets of major cities, carrying chilled tanks of sherbet on their back, along with cups to share.

Wine: Wine is produced in many coastal areas, but lower rainfall tends to produce dryer wines, that are matured in pine barrels. Think of poor quality retsina.

Wine, Heart of Wine: A potent brew. Heart of Wine is a wine that has been aged in the desert heat or in mountain snows until the water has evaporated or frozen, leaving a more powerful substance behind. Like all alcoholic or fermented beverages, Heart of Wine is forbidden in moralist areas.

The most commonly used herbs and spices are:
NOTE: Please do not take these herbal properties as real life health benefits - without checking for yourselves.

• Cumin, imparts an earthy, warming and aromatic character to food, making it a staple in stews and soups. When used in remedies, it is said to aid digestion and boost the immune system. Herbal Properties (Potential component for Anti-Toxin and health related con checks)
• Sumac, seeds are dried are ground into a reddish-purple powder, then used to add a tart, lemony taste to salads or meat. Herbal Properties (Ease respiratory and digestive complaints, Ease discomfort of urinary tract infections, Help the body fight unwanted inflammation)
• Caraway, fruits are used whole and give an anise-like flavor to dishes. Herbal Properties (Good for Digestion, Food Poisoning, Tooth ache)
• Alligator Pepper, similar to modern black pepper, the seeds are baked and then ground to add heat and depth of flavour to a dish. Health Benefits (Helps heal wounds, good vs Venoms)
• Nigella, the seeds are dried and ground to make a bitter paste. Health Benefits (Fights infections, reduce inflammation)