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Indo-Pacific, I'd suggest coconuts...but maybe a relative of Brazil nuts (do they float?) Brazilnut grows in tall trees in deep forest, and probably wouldn't survive in such an environment. Coconut would probably work, but it can't really sustain much of a cuisine on its own. You could have a cassa...

Looking up laurisilvan environments brings up various such islands, and then you can look up the cuisines of those islands. Here, have some links: Canarian cuisine Culture of Cape Verde Madeiran gastronomy Thanks... that mojo idea seems like one I'd incorporate, but my conpeople would have a differ...

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I'm from the US, when I went through K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grade), we learned a smattering of phrases here or there in Spanish or other languages in elementary school, but nothing formal until I got to seventh grade. During that year, they had a one semester course called Foreign Language ...

Would it be plausible to posit some sort of nut- like almonds, or tuber- like sweet potatoes or casava, being used to make flour for bread in such an environment? Would some sort of peppers or an avocado like plant be plausible? @ Astraios- I guess it is safe to assume that the first rule about huma...

They could still eat seaweed. It's pretty tasty, actually. I never really thought of that... I may take that into consideration. I'm just trying to think of possibilities like what kinds of seasonings the Xorfavoi probably have access to, what they'd use to make bread; what they would use to make a...

Astraios wrote:Seaweed.

Oops, I should've added the phrase "on a pair of large islands" between "out" and "in." *lol*

I've been trying to think about the cuisine for my conculture and I am not sure what kind of (edible) plants would grow in a laurisilvan environment. From what I gather from the PCK, wild cereal grasses generally need a much drier environment, like that found in the modern Mediterranean, to grow. Ho...

That plant I just call a weed. When doing work around outside, I always have to stamp them down... there are so many of those near my folks's rhubarb patch that I find them very annoying!