Today's cooking extract is from His Majesty's kitchen in Dragaera City: "which gave Khaavren the chance to make his way to His Majesty's kitchen, where he gorged himself in good style. The staff, we ought to say, looked upon him suspiciously, recalling the last time he had eaten there, but as he seemed, this time, to have no intention of collapsing before them, they eventually relaxed into their accustomed good humors. After finishing the meal (which consisted of bread and a large portion of certain cold fowl which had been prepared in the Elde Island manner, with a sauce of tart fruit and handshoot seeds)" Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Twenty-seventh, page 414.