Mordax et al

The Dersite diet is in fact quite fascinating. As a culture they are given to heavily spiced food, and preserved food as well, with very little in the way of vegetables. This is of course because Derse has no suitable land for farming, and thus, nearly every foodstuff is imported from one area of the medium or another.

The greatest exception to this is mushrooms. Dersite cuisine is quite mushroom heavy- an ingredient which is one of the few actually farmed on the moon and is thus a staple of the diet. The fungus, which resembles earth portobello mushrooms for the most part, is cultivated in mushroom farms at the foot of the mountains outside the city, and is considered a staple food, often used as a cheap and hearty filler in recipes. 

Dersite cooking is heavy on things like stews, chili, casseroles and pies and in some ways resembles a mix between Earth Eastern European and South American cuisine. Dersites eat a lot of things pickled- cucumbers, sausages, eggs, even meats. 

Dersites do not use microwaves, everything is heated on the stove or hotplate (which is slightly inconvenient due to the amount of canned food they eat). Spices on Derse and in the medium are mostly a match for what we have on earth, though there are a few differences. The medium (at least my medium) doesn’t have paprika. I have no idea why.

On Derse people have a fondness for savory over sweet- candy like we are used to is a bit rare, and often much more salty or sour than we are used to, especially if you are an american. Licorice sweets are the most common, followed by chocolate, which is generally a thin shell over custard. Snack foods more commonly are preserved meats, hard boiled eggs, pickles of any kind, and things like potato chips, which are generally packaged in quite spicy flavors. One popular Dersite snack food is popcorn with something a lot like curry powder on it.

Dersite meals are not generally separated into breakfast lunch and dinner foods, rather any dish might be made for any part of the day. Breakfast often consists of the previous evening’s leftovers, along with coffee. Pancakes and other traditional breakfast pastries, interestingly, are generally served with gravy rather than syrup or jam, and often with sliced, pan-fried mushrooms. I absolutely recommend this novelty to all my followers, though perhaps not at breakfast.