As with any colony sim or city builder game, it's important to know how to make food in Norland, in order to keep the population healthy and happy. There are three types of food, and both peasants and lords will eat them in the following order if all of them are available: Meat, Flour, and Rutabaga. Predictably, the more sought-after foods of Flour and Meat are harder to produce, and in fact, require multiple steps, the first of which is purchasing books.