We shall aim for a 1400s-esque time period, with no gunpowder.

A time where roaming bands of

adventurers keeping the roving monsters at bay is a reasonable solution, and populations are large
enough for interesting rows of shops in the cities.
Adventurers are viewed with suspicion, being inherently wanderers and vagabonds, yet are treated
with a grudging respect: they risk their lives to keep the common peace, and bounty pay is rich for it.
They’re much the same as roadster-mercenaries, in a way.
Hunter-Orders are a thing, but adventurers also pull from brigands, soldiers, and other wanderers;
it’s a very mixed-background group.

Grains
Wheat: nice bread
Rye: peasant bread, ale
Oats, barley: animal fodder, pottage
All were used for thatching, and to an extent pottage (boiled grain; porry is the veg version)

Non-grain crops
Hops for beer, rape for oil, flax for linen & oil, hemp for rope & weed
Dye plants for dyes: madder (red), woad (blue), greenweed (green), weld (yellow)

Staple vegetables
Two d20 tables (summer/autumn & winter/spring): 5/2/1 cabbage, 6/2 onions, 3/1 peas
Onions: regular, red, shallots, scallions
Cabbage: white, red, kale, sprouts, broccoli, mustard greens
Peas (legumes): peas, fava (broad-beans), chickpeas

Other vegetables
Leaves: leeks, asparagus
Roots: Beetroot, swede, carrot (many colours), turnip, parsnip, skirret, salsify (purple, black), radish
Gourds: Calabash, marrow

Herbs & spices

Spring, summer, autumn, winter d20 tables (include overlap). Include both flowers and leaves.
Dry & wet season d20 tables for South American and Eastern spices.
Herbs (crushed leaves or flowers), spices (ground seeds, bark, or roots)
Wild, cultivated, culinary, medicinal
Tree (large bush), bush (small tree), vine (crawling bush), herbaceous (soft-stemmed)
Anise, mint, mustard, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, garlic, quite a lot more

Seeds
Two tables: autumn & winter. Minimal overlap.
Nuts: hard shell, single seed (rarely two), doesn’t open on its own
Fruit/berry: soft flesh covering the seeds. Definition problem is solved by calling all fruits berries.
Stone: From a fruit with a single large seed
Pip: From a fruit with many small seeds
Apples, pears, plums, berries (straw, blue, black, elder, sloe, red)

Notes
Ignore Mediterranean stuff: Grapes, citrus (lemon, lime, orange*), olives, figs, melon
*Oranges were bitter, until bred to be sweet in the 1400s
Refrigeration is impossible, so swings towards saltable things and naturally storable stuff. Thus, salt is
very important, and grades of salt are noticeable, and sweets are stuff like comfits and candies.
South American
Three sisters: maize (corn), beans (runner), squash
Here, the Three Sisters don’t exist, since the use of domesticated animals make European fields more
efficient than the triple symbiotic planting. However, the components still exist, and colour southern
continent food compared to northern.
Potatoes**, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkin
Chilli, coca, allspice, agave, tobacco, pepper (pink)
**A problem. Have people never cultivate them – they consider them nightshade-adjacent.

Eastern
Cotton
Pepper (black & white), cinnamon (ceylen & cassia), cumin, nutmeg, ginger, cloves
Turmeric, saffron, rhubarb

Animals
This won’t be relevant for a while. Note: domesticated animals played a much greater import than
food, cash, or companion animals.
Dog, cat, horse, sheep, cow, pig, chicken
Pheasant, duck, deer, rabbit, grouse
Salmon, other fish
Crayfish, lobster, crab, oyster