[Sca-cooks] foods in fantasy novels

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Wed Sep 13 11:13:44 PDT 2006


> For this you should consult Diana Wynne Jones' (very tongue-in-cheek) book,  
> The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (soon to be reprinted), which sends up many of  
> the cliches of fantasy novels. Her comments on stew (since we have only seen  
> dogs, cats, horses, and vermin, one wonders what meat is in the stew always  
> served in taverns....) can give one - erm - pause.

People are always catching things to eat in Mercedes Lackey... and 
stewing them, sometimes. (Yes, my brain is completely fried by 
'beginning of semester' and I've reverted to whatever mushbrain reading 
I can dig out of the attic where my fiction collection ended up-- I'm 
now on my 4th Lackey of the week and desperately wishing I could find 
my copy of anything DWJ that I haven't read repeatedly in the last 
year...)

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it screams
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