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Food and Drink

Food

One of the staples of Rosharan cuisine is lavis grain, which is similar to corn but would resemble barley if popped. Thaylen bread is baked with wheat from Shinovar. Flatbread is made from a different grain that resembles wheat.

Cheeses on Roshar are made from sow's milk, but Rosharan cuisine is not very milk-based.

Many armies rely on Soulcast food because it does not require transportation. It is known to be bland and stale, caused by a lack of microbiome and different fat and water content.

Herdaz meat is well-flavored, and Soulcast Herdazian meat tastes better than Soulcast Alethi meat. Alethkar's men's food is very spicy.

Outside of Shinovar, Roshar's fruits and vegetables have evolved to be resilient to storms.

A wide variety of alcoholic drinks can be found on Roshar.

Wines

by Miranda Meeks

Types of Rosharan wine

Unlike Earth wines, on Roshar the term refers to a number of alcoholic drinks, only a small subset of which are made of fermented fruit. The use of the term "wine" is the result of linguistic shift, much in the same way that all birds became chickens and all small crustaceans became cremlings. The alcohols that fall under the term "wine" are categorized by strength and color, with different colors denoting different alcohol content. Additionally, the stronger "wines" are actually distilled spirits.

In order from weakest to strongest, those are:

• Pink, which typically has a distinct floral taste. It's said to assist alertness. This wine is actually a juice and has no alcoholic content.
• Orange, fruity and with notes of ginger, although apparently it's not made of fruit.
• Yellow, which has a deep, "bold" taste while being weak enough to drink casually.
• Auburn, spicy and with a tasty aroma - this could be closest to Earth's red wine, as it's made of fermented fruit.
• Red, said to be "flavourful with a pleasant burn".
• Sapphire, with a taste of nuts and honey, made of lavis grain. It's usually infused, and the closest equivalent to Earth whiskey.
• Blue, tasting of berry and lemon.
• Violet, the strongest, typically with an aroma of sandalwood.

Within those colors, a number of different wines exist - for example, among the sapphire varieties are kimik, vari and Veden saph. While generally the wine colors are standardized, they gain their color by intentional colored infusions, and are occasionally made without them.

Other Beverages

by Yen Shu Liao

Rosharan drinks

Apart from wines, Roshar has a number of other alcoholic drinks. Among those is beer, of which the most popular variety appears to be mudbeer, often drank to warm up. Another drink is a liquor called honu, which comes in several varieties that differ in strength. Both beer and honu are made from lavis grain.

The Unkalaki people have a number of their own alcoholic beverages. This includes a brownish drink called shiki, which has to be chilled overnight, and the infamous Horneater lager, which is far stronger than regular beers, with one bartender claiming it melts their cups. Strongest among the Horneater beverages is the Horneater white. A clear, distilled moonshine, it is the strongest known alcohol on Roshar (with the possible exception of some violet wines). It is known to strip paint, and can apparently be deadly to non-Unkalaki.

Other, unspecified alcohols drank across Roshar include a variety of ciders, juices and lagers.

Drinking Culture

Vorin parties typically involve wine of the weakest colors, watered down to prevent the participants from getting drunk too quickly. Sapphire appears to be the strongest color imbibed casually, and the phrase "to be in (someone)'s violets" refers to a person being heavily, perhaps dangerously drunk.

Beer and mudbeer are typical casual drinks, commonly served in taverns. Among Unkalaki, mudbeer is also used for duels - the winner is decided by who can drink the most without passing out.

Like most processes on Roshar, the act of drinking has its own dedicated spren. Winespren, or alespren, appear near people who are heavily intoxicated, taking form of small bubbles clinging to nearby objects. They are considered quite rare or even nonexistent, as they require a person to be deeply drunk before they appear, which can also lead to the assumption that an alespren sighting was simply a drunken hallucination; however, both Axies and Nazh attest to their existence.