Mark A Mandel <mam at TheWorld.com> wrote: 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. _________________________________________________________________________ I seem to recall Vlad and/or his dinner companion having Kethna ribs quite often. I'm thinking pig as in "Baby Back Ribs", chicken ribs would be kind of hard to manage. ~Tim --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!