Today's cooking extract is from a conversation between Piro and Ibronka: "For the third time, Piro cleared his throat, then said, 'So, do you know of the twisted noodles, made from a decoction of whipped hen's eggs, prepared in the fashion of the Southern Coast?' 'Well, yes, I had this in Hartre.'" Lord of Castle Black, paperback, Chapter the Sixtieth, page 305.