--- Tim Owen <feetalsjeez at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > 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. Also, the salt kethna that Vlad eats aboard ship in _Orca_ is presumably salt pork. I have the distinct feeling that you could match the Fenarian kethna dish(es) that get mentioned with Hungarian pork dishes. In short, I agree with you and Mark. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail