[Sca-cooks] Fantasy foods was Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 5, Issue 43

[Guenievre de Monmarche]

> > Margaret FitzWilliam
> What is the deal with the English language on Pern anyway?  How did they
> lose all their food words in favor of descriptions? I guess
> "heardbeasts" instead of "cows" and "red roots" instead of "beets"
> sounded more Fantasy somehow.  Meh.  I was never sure what a "wherry"
> bird was anyway.  Turkey?  I never lived with one so I don't know how
> good a turkey is as an intruder warning system.  Ducks are great at that
> though.

I always thought it was a lizard relative of the dragons - didn't they
mention it in Dragonsdawn? I don't own that one, but seem to remember it.

Guenièvre