Today's cooking extract is from Lord Adron's army kitchen outside Dragaera City. "It was not large, as such breakfast go--it was Adron's opinion that he, and, by extension, his troops, would be fight better if not weighed down by a large meal, although some sustenance was certainly required. Hence, each guest was given warmed bread and butter, a ration of potatoes, a piece of dried whitefruit, and a slice of roasted kethna. There was also blood-tea in good quantity (Adron being superstitious about the name, had forced himself to enjoy the acrid tang) and klava." Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Twenty-Four, page 362 Another food mystery: whitefruit Since it was breakfast, I was thinking grapefruit or some citrus. But whitefruit Earth version could also be like very juicy pears. Whitefruit does not seem to be just a breakfast food. "Mario, having finished the piece of kethna, bit into a whitefruit, somehow contriving to eat it without, as usually happens to victims of this fruit, finding that it has exploded into his face or down his chin. He chewed thoughtfully, brought his napkin up to his lips and expelled a few seeds, then swallowed. Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Nineteenth, pages 289-290. What do you think might be the closest Earth version of whitefruit? Bye. Linda G.