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 Everyone knows Dwarf Ale, it’s heavy and as black as the deepest night, with a thick creamy head.  The ‘real stuff’ is rumoured to have some type of fungus in the recipe and, like all Dwarven food has a slightly tinny, tangy taste to it.
-==== Dwarf Sausage ====
+==== Traditional Foods ====
+These foods are heavily associated with traditional Dwarf culture.  In reality, they are  'Store Cupboard' food that all Dwarf holdings  keep as insurance against hard time, when fresher food is running low. However, they also feature prominently in Dwarf Trail Rations and may well remind dwarves of their younger, apprentice, days.  Many 'Dwarf Bars'  will feature them as delicaies.
+=== Dwarf Sausage ===
 A cold sausage, often made with mutton that has been preserved with Keep All.  Packed full of ground meat, the sausage could be a bit flavourless - except for the tinny tanginess of the keep all.  Dwarven folk-lore says it will last almost as long as the fabled Dwarf Bread, although that has never really been tested.
-==== Dwarf Bread ====
+=== Dwarf Bread ===
-Dwarf bread is not really bread at all, but more like a dense, unsweetened biscuit.  It can be eaten as it is, but it is dry and hard work – however, it can also be broken up and added to stews, where it dissolves works as a thickener.  Dissolved in water, it would probably make an excellent wallpaper paste -  but don’t tell the dwarves that.  It would normally last well anyway, but the small amounts of Keep All that is added to the recipe extends the shelf life of Dwarf Bread to a ridiculous extent, there are rumours that two hundred year old Dwarf Bread is still edible.  And still has that slightly tinny taste. It is another 'store Cupboard' food that is used in Trail Rations and when fresh supplies are running low.
+Dwarf bread is not really bread at all, but more like a dense, unsweetened biscuit.  It can be eaten as it is, but it is dry and hard work – however, it can also be broken up and added to stews, where it dissolves works as a thickener.  Dissolved in water, it would probably make an excellent wallpaper paste -  but don’t tell the dwarves that.  It would normally last well anyway, but the small amounts of Keep All that is added to the recipe extends the shelf life of Dwarf Bread to a ridiculous extent, there are rumours that two hundred year old Dwarf Bread is still edible.  And still has that slightly tinny taste.
-==== Pickled Mushrooms ====
+=== Pickled Mushrooms ===
-Perhaps not mushrooms that many humans would recognise, but many underground dwarf-holds have caverns that are used as fungus farms.  They are dried and bottled in fresh water that has been laced with Keep All.  They rehydrate in the bottle to make flavoursome, tangy mushroom sections.  It is another 'store Cupboard' food that is used in Trail Rations and when fresh supplies are running low.
+Perhaps not mushrooms that many humans would recognise, but many underground dwarf-holds have caverns that are used as fungus farms.  They are dried and bottled in fresh water that has been laced with Keep All.  They rehydrate in the bottle to make flavoursome, tangy mushroom sections.
-==== Nubbe Paste ====
+=== Nubbe Paste ===
-A thick spread that looks and tastes a bit like peanut butter – although with that slight tang that dwarves love.  It is best when spread on Dwarf-Bread and is a staple in any Dwarfs field rations.  It isn't made from nuts, of course, and every dwarf knows it is made from Cave Crickets.  It is another 'store Cupboard' food that is used in Trail Rations and when fresh supplies are running low.
+A thick spread that looks and tastes a bit like peanut butter – although with that slight tang that dwarves love.  It is best when spread on Dwarf-Bread and is a staple in any Dwarfs field rations.  It isn't made from nuts, of course, and every dwarf knows it is made from Cave Crickets.
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