Today's cooking recipe is a dessert served to Noima, Her Majesty the Consort in Dragaera City: "Her Majesty seemed oblivious to the discussion, and concentrated all of her attention on a plate of sliced peaches, grapes, and rednuts that had been covered with a decoction of white wine and cinnamon mixed with sugar and sweet cream, all surrounded by tiny blocks of ice carved into the shape of trees. Khaavren, after noting it, turned his eyes firmly away, feeling uncomfortably like the family dog salivating at the bone on his master's plate." Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Eleventh, page 147 Hi, If someone wants to try making the above dessert, I would suggest finding a Christmas Tree shaped ice tray instead of carving out trees from "tiny blocks of ice". If you make the dessert, below is a description of the type of cooking article that David would like to post on dragaera.info . David Dyer-Bennet wrote on Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:17:34 -0600 >The other kind of cooking article I hope to have some of some day is a >specific recipe, worked out in detail, with explanations of what >decisions they had to make along the way, why they made them, and how >their friends liked the result :-). Or perhaps several recipes >combined, as a report on a "Dragaeran dinner" (yes, it's been done >before). >And kinds of cooking articles I haven't thought of will be looked at >with a moderately open mind. Bye. Linda G.