Nukimau Food
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Pronunciation table
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| IPA | /m/ | /n/ | /p/ | /t/ | /k/ | /s/ | /ɸ/ | /h/ | /j/ | /l/ | /i/ | /e/ | /a/ | /o/ | /u/ |
Foods
- Obviously, the species of plants and animals that live on Litoria are not the same as those that live on Earth. I will, however, use English words to name the Litorian plants and animals that resemble their Terran counterparts.
- Root crops and squashes are grown in the family's vegetable gardens.
- The root crops are stored and will last through the dry season. The root is roasted and eaten either warm as a vegetable or cold and raw.
- The following herbs and spices are available: white mustard, caraway, cumin, wild rosemary, angelica, and sage.
- Potherbs Greens (sumama) and edible flowers (kite) are gathered from the environment.
- Grasshoppers (neke), locusts (tosoimama), and grubs (kumusi), when they are in season, are added to the menu.
- Nuts (poke) and fruits (tiosu). Eaten fresh at first, they are dried to keep over the dry season.
- Honey (lafua) is gathered from wild bees. Various tree saps (konoi) are also used as sweeteners.
- In the areas where they are available, cattails (saloye) are harvested for their stems, leaf bases, flower spikes, pollen and rhizomes.
- The Islanders also forage for mushrooms (nomaokio).
- Food is gleaned from the streams and the ocean: fish (yeso), crayfish (sanoe), frogs (tatase), turtles (tapi), crabs (totoso), oysters (keu), and seaweed (meno).
Beverages
- If enough fruit is harvested, some of it is made into an alcoholic beverage which is sometimes flavored with flowers.
- Tisanes (sofa) are brewed from various species of leaves and flowers.
- Game is not dressed in the field so that the blood will be available for drinking to those back home.
Meals
- The Islanders eat two meals a day. Breakfast (ha tosesona) is eaten shortly after sunrise (ha nomenopoi). Supper (ha oyesona) is eaten just before sunset (ha nomenoka). These times take full advantage of daylight for work.
- The Islanders eat while seated on the floor around a rush mat on which are placed the various dishes of the meal.
- The only table utensil is the knife. Hands are used for every other eating task.
