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A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

Green: a complete dish, e.g. porridge and honey, or an ingredient treated in a specific way, e.g. salted pork
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Black: generic food / ingredient, e.g. cheese, or a generic drink, e.g. mead
Red text: food or drink used figuratively, e.g. ‘pale as milk'
In alphabetical order:
  • Almonds (eye shape)
  • Apples
  • Berries
  • Brot (‘a thick, viscous liquid … more like porridge than anything else. It was the giants’ staple travelling food, incredibly nourishing and possessing healing agents as well’)
  • Cheese (a round of)
  • Eggs (eaten raw)
  • Elk
  • Fish (including salted fish)
  • Grain (picked up like a sack of)
  • Herbs
  • Honey
  • Mead
  • Meat (including salted meat)
  • Melon
  • Milk (pale as)
  • Porridge and honey
  • Red meat, milk and cheese (for a hound)
  • Ribs and parsnips
  • Salmon (trapped like)
  • Salted pork
  • Spices
  • Spit-roasted venison
  • Stew and black bread
  • Tea
  • Venison stew, fried onions and mushrooms bobbing in the fat-glistening gravy
  • Water
  • Wine
In order of appearance:
  • Water
  • Wine
  • Elk
  • Porridge and honey
  • Meat (including salted meat)
  • Grain (picked up like a sack of)
  • Almonds (eye shape)
  • Mead
  • Milk (pale as)
  • Stew and black bread
  • Fish (including salted fish)
  • Herbs
  • Spices
  • Cheese (a round of)
  • Apples
  • Berries
  • Honey
  • Brot (‘a thick, viscous liquid … more like porridge than anything else. It was the giants’ staple travelling food, incredibly nourishing and possessing healing agents as well’)
  • Salmon (trapped like)
  • Spit-roasted venison
  • Venison stew, fried onions and mushrooms bobbing in the fat-glistening gravy
  • Red meat, milk and cheese (for a hound)
  • Ribs and parsnips
  • Melon
  • Salted pork
  • Eggs (eaten raw)
  • ​Tea
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