Falumpaset cheese

Falumpaset cheese
Historical information
Found	Black Spire Outpost, Batuu Saleucami
Food specifications
Type	Cheese
Edible by	Artiodacs Humans Togrutas
Dishes	Fried Endorian Tip-Yip Mashed chokeroot
Chronological information
Affiliation	Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo Tuggs' Grub

"Never would've guessed that mixin' in some falumpaset cheese and simple spices would bring out an inherent sweetness hidin' beneath the chokeroot's surface."

―Strono Tuggs, The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook

Falumpaset cheese was a type of cheese used to make the side dish mashed chokeroot, a component of the meal Fried Endorian Tip-Yip. Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs included the recipes in his cookbook. The cheese could be found on the planets Batuu and Saleucami in the Outer Rim. Webb Taffral once fell face-first into a bowl of mashed chokeroot. The tip-yip meal was eaten by the humans Vi Moradi and Julen Rakab, by Izal Garsea, and by the Togruta Neelo.

Description

Falumpaset cheese was an ingredient in mashed chokeroot, a side dish that was a component of the entrée Fried Endorian Tip-Yip; the cheese and some orange-colored simple spices helped to bring out the sweetness of the otherwise bland chokeroot. Falumpaset cheese shared its name with falumpasets, a species of domesticated animals from Naboo. It could be found on the Outer Rim planets Batuu and Saleucami.

History

Mashed chokeroot was a dish made with falumpaset cheese.

In 4 ABY, mashed chokeroot was served at the Taffral house on Saleucami during a family dinner. The dinner was interrupted when TIE fighters flew over the Taffral residence due to Imperial loyalist Webb Taffral alerting Imperial forces to the location of his Rebel-aligned brother, Dav. Their father, Glen, stunned Webb with a blaster, causing him to fall face-first into a bowl of mashed chokeroot.

Sometime after the Battle of Takodana in 34 ABY, Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs had launched his mobile restaurant, Tuggs' Grub, which he operated out of a modified transport shuttle. Around that time, chokeroot was considered an old family standard on many worlds, but Tuggs thought the root lacked flavor and was not suitable for use in his cooking. Upon a visit to Saleucami, he discovered a creamy mashed chokeroot recipe that used falumpaset cheese and spices to enhance the underlying sweetness of chokeroot. When Tuggs wrote his cookbook, he included the recipe for mashed chokeroot and his entrée that included it, Fried Endorian Tip-Yip.

In 34 ABY, Tuggs brought Tuggs' Grub to Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu and worked as one of the rotating guest chefs at Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo. During one of his monthly week-long visits, Vi Moradi, a human Resistance spy, ate Fried Endorian Tip-Yip at Tuggs' Grub. In the same year, the farmer Julen Rakab and the smuggler Izal Garsea also ate the meal when Tuggs served it to them. After Garsea left the table, the Togruta musician Neelo helped himself to Rakab's dish. In his book Traveler's Guide to Batuu, the adventurer Eloc Throno described the meal, but referred to mashed chokeroot as "mashed vegetables."

Behind the scenes

Falumpaset cheese first appeared, albeit unnamed and retroactively, as an ingredient within the dish mashed chokeroot in Aftermath, a 2015 novel written by Chuck Wendig. Mashed chokeroot is a component of the entrée Fried Endorian Tip-Yip, both of which were first made available to guests in the restaurant Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, a themed attraction that opened at Disneyland on May 31, 2019.

Falumpaset cheese was first identified by name in the 2019 cookbook Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, written by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Marc Sumerak, which also establishes it as an ingredient in mashed chokeroot. The out-of-universe mashed chokeroot recipe uses parmesan cheese as an ingredient, and the recipe for Fried Endorian Tip-Yip allows for mashed potatoes to be used as a substitute for mashed chokeroot.

Appearances

• Aftermath (First appearance, simultaneous with audiobook)
• Aftermath audiobook
• Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (Indirect mention only) (as fried Endorian tip-yip)
• Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire audiobook (Indirect mention only) (as fried Endorian tip-yip)
• A Crash of Fate (as fried Endorian tip-yip)
• A Crash of Fate audiobook (as fried Endorian tip-yip)
• Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge — Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo (First pictured)
• Halcyon Legacy 1 (In flashback(s))

Sources

• Everything You Need to Know About Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on D23.com (backup link)
• From Blue Milk to Ronto Wraps: The Food and Beverages of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on StarWars.com (backup link)
• How to Taste Your Way Through Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on D23.com (backup link)
• Foodie Guide to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on the Disney Parks Blog (backup link)
• Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook (First identified as Falumpaset cheese)
• Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Traveler's Guide to Batuu
• Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia