Kǒnglóng Foods

To cover every food and food additive We the Kǒnglóng consume and digest would feel enough tomes to fill a Worldship. Instead here we will discuss the important foods and the basic ones we all consume.

For most of us we eat MEAT. I think that pretty much covers all we need to cover here. Well No? Fine, We prefer our meats cooked and well seasoned. There are many ways to prepare meats for the tables: Fire roasted, Braised, Charred, Stewed, Fricasseed. I could go on again for hours.

Though what you need to know, my young apprentice, is that there are some who feel the urges of the old ways, and demand their meat cold and bloody. then there are others who choose to fight those instincts, and like their meat cook until dry and plenty dead. Though your most likely be cooking most meats right in the middle.

Then there is everything else.

We thoroughly test plants on each planet we arrive on. We find more and more of them and start farming the ones we enjoy and can digest. We seem to prefer the leafy greens, though as we have settled to being less nomadic and more sedated to planet systems, more and more root vegetables and gourds have entered our diet.

We serve most raw with a bit of oil and seasons over them, but some have taken fancy to the plants being cooked, specialty the root tubers with the meats… Hey I just cook here I don't say why they like it.

Some of the plants that we harvest on the farming worlds are claimed to be form the original world, our old home. Those plants seem to taste the best, but who knows anymore.

Every one of you ought to know by now about the history of the Noodily Soups¹⁾. ::Shakes head:: You back there… Tell us about it for the ones who seemed to come from a backwards Worldship.

~~Noodily Soups come from a time when we were in the Black, when foods were grown aboard the ships and we had to stretch them as far as we could. Our Noodles are made form rice, and mixed with broth from the used bones of other meals, and bits of real meat and vegetables gives us a hot filling meal that allowed one to be filled and energized for more glorious work with in the Worldships.~~

Correct, and though we are not out past the stars in the Black any more, we fall back to this meal for comfort and to remember the times when food was rationed. We consume it almost ritually during our holidays for that very reason: the memories. Or better to say, To Remember.

Now we are discussing ritually ingested meals there is the Blood Salad. the Recipe isn't standard but it always have the same few parts:

A. Vegetables B. Blood of an Animal.

Now it hard to understand this, but there was a time we as a race was different races. Separated between the hunters and the prey. Carnivores and the Herbivores. When we first boarded the Worldships we were merely animals. But over time we learned. And a great calling was made to bring us all together. It was decided that we all must take part in a ritual that would bond us all as one people. The blood salad brought together the key essence of both. So we consume this in the mid year, On Bonding Day, to reconsecrate our pack and bond with each other as a people.

This was written as a lecture to a culinary class. Please indulge this with me. i suffered through many culinary lecture in my time as a student of this science.