Catching up on some old mail, although hit or miss... On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: #A discussion of food and drink could easily become a discussion of the plants #and animals of Dragaera, which I would enjoy. # #For example, what kind of animal is a kethna? I'd always imagined it #as some sort of bird, perhaps rather like a chicken, but in LoCB a #"suckling kethna" is served, suggesting that it is more likely to be a #mammal. What parallels can we draw between Dragaeran fauna and our #own? More specifically than that, I have always assumed that it was a pig or very much like one. I don't remember the citations but we do have "kethna bacon", and somewhere in Sethra Lavode there is the mention of an area that is renowned for, among other things, the stench of its kethna pens. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]