Today's cooking extract is from an inn the Silver Goblet on the Island of Elde: "There are as many ways to prepare the longfish as there are villages in the staffhead, from the spit-roasting common in the upper reaches to spicy stews of the lower river--but perhaps the best is the simplest: quick frying in butter with a bit of garlic, a few of the local sweet onions, slivered, and the merest hint of juice from the bitternut, the whole accompanied by goslingroot just barely steamed and the delicate white Roolina wine from the mountains. It was, in the event, this very meal that was being served at this moment by an inn, some ten or twelve miles from Kripna, marked by the sign of the silver goblet." The Lord of Castle Black, paperback, Chapter the Fifty-Second, page 200. Dinner at an inn on the Island of Elde: "They stopped that evening at an inn which could have been a twin to the Silver Goblet, save that the longfish was prepared with lemon and capers, and, in Illista's opinion, over-cooked." The Lord of Castle Black, paperback, Chapter the Fifty-Second, page 206. Breakfast at hostelry called Porter's in the town of Merinna on the coast of Dragaera: "They spend the night, then, in Porter's, and broke their fast on the fruit muffins for which that hostelry is so justly renowned, as well as klava, which Illista had not tasted since leaving the Empire." The Lord of Castle Black, paperback, Chapter the Fifty-Second, page 208.