Aycha Mikhuq (ahy-chah meek-hook)

Purpose

A menu of mostly meat based foods meant to substitute the more vampiric tastes among the Dhani people.

Document Structure

Publication Status

Adoption has been mostly successful. People not born in the Silver Mountains are more appreciative of these efforts but still are less than appetizing.

Legal status

Where do they find so much blood

— a nervous Dara on the road to Mama

Bihorn

Ch'arki

Crystal Shrimp

Cuya

Dream Fish

Pecari

Viscacha

The bodies responsible for resource management throughout the empire worry over the excessive killing of wild game in such a poor region.
In addition to the environmental impact; the culling of the ever delectable vicuña, that roam the desert, and their valuable wool cuts into the region's taxability . Therefore, they mandated local tampus and encouraged ruruchiq to incorporate vegetarian elements into the local cuisine.

Historical Details

Background

Carnivorous Diet

The dhani, and much of their offshoots, have many blood drinking traditions that harken back to a dominant period in their past.
Such was meant to intimidate rivals, as well as address a lack of edible native plants. What did grow in their mountainous desert home were freely exploited by the birds, vicuña and guinea pigs who were inturn hunted upon.

Regardless, it was still a famine-prone place and many who lived there extracted all manner or nutrition as if they were always starving.

Public Reaction

Criticism

It is fairly uncommon to eat meat regularly.
In spite of this, there is a minority of Dhani traditionalists who parade through the desert wild to subsist just on what they catch. But this was too impractical for growing Dhani communities under ever growing pressure from outsiders.

A viable solution only came through those invaders, however; which led many to view them with suspicion. Indeed; in exchange for submission, the Innoit built terraces for farming which grew the population, which splintered opinion over their new overlords.

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Aycha Mikhuq

d15	Food	Description
1	Blood Bread	A traditional bread typically made with strong grain flour, yeast, salt, lukewarm water, wildberry juice, honey and oil; that has a slightly metallic taste.
2	Chicharon	Strips of fried animal skins further preserved under the sun with salt.
3	Aycha T'iqi	A meat-based tube of fat boiled in blood and herbs until thick enough to congeal when cooled.
4	Kulli Apichu	A plant-based dessert made from deep-fried squash and/or purple potatoes shaped into a donut.
5	Gallo Vinowan	A condiment made from duck blood and used as a thickener in sauces and to flavour or colour for meat.
6	Pankūkas	A potato dumpling favoured with blood.
7	Ganso	A pastry tarte for the winter season made from bird blood, filler grains and spices.
8	Barra	A sweet blood bar mixed-in with syrup and milk for a gummy supplement.
9	Kuchu	Soft, smooth and chewy cubes of blood can be eaten as is, but is normally kept cold to be used as ingredients for other dishes.
10	Yaguarlocro	A localized potato soup in the Silver Mountains mixed with the traditional entrails, brain, intestines, liver, lung, tongue and rumen.
11	Bat Fajita	Bat meat pan-seared with onions and sandwiched between its own dried and floured wings.
12	Cheese Cider	Fermented coconut jelly along with copious amounts of milk, potato starch and wine over high heat neutralizes most of the acidic elements. It has a mild anesthetizing effect tickles and numbs the mouth.
13	Ruphasqa Tuku	A bite-sized meaty candy prepared through slow cooking and braised in a syrup or honey.
14	Omaere	A sour milk sprinkled with blood; and partially neutralized with citric juice for a tart taste.
15	Shrimp Paste	A fermented dip made from finely crushed shrimp and salt; usually sun-dried into transportable bricks.

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Type

Record, Culinary (Menu)

Medium

Oral Tradition / Word of Mouth

Location

Tampu

Signatories (Organizations)

• Chan Awkisuyu
• Chaskikuna
• First Quadrant
• Fourth Quadrant