Worldbuilding

Food differs between places and between the four people species (humans, gnomes, ornad, bantalsa) that inhabit my world.

Ornad cuisine often involves spicy peppers as a filler and preservative, since they can't taste capsaicin. Aside from that it's palatable to humans and gnomes.

Gnomic food is mostly plants and mushrooms because gnomes are very small and hunting is hard when everything is bigger than you. They can taste starch as a basic flavor along with sweet, salty, etc.

Bantalsa aren't even part of the animal kingdom and i have yet to consider what they eat or how they taste (transitive). All i know is they use gastroliths.

Humans have the most fleshed out cuisine.

• Dwarfs, who live in a big underground city called Plagioclase, are big on root vegetables and garlic in particular. Fish from the river Lumbek that runs through Plagioclase are a minor luxury. Mostly though it's root vegetables, often pickled or in sauerkraut, and dairy from domesticated giant moles. Beer is made from some of these vegetables, usually potatoes, and is often flavored with ginger. Water comes from the river or from cisterns filled by rain.
• Toth is a city built in shallow water in the ocean. Staple foods here include fish, kelp, the fruit of the saltbark tree, and mareyze, a saltwater grain kind of like rice.

Other places also have cannon fruit, craproot, leiti, seecorns, acaba, steelwolly, and plenty of real world stuff too.

And vampires, no matter where or what species they are, have to supplement their diet with fresh blood because they can't produce their own red blood cells.