Dragaera

Food and drink

Fri Jul 2 12:32:17 PDT 2004

I thought of it as something like a pig as well.




--- 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.
> 
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>    http://cracksandshards.com
>    a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website
> [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
> 
> 
> 


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