[Sca-cooks] foods in fantasy novels

[Cat Dancer]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>> 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...)

I particularly like the bit in the first Kerowyn book where she's 
coordinating her brother's wedding feast, and the bread sculptures of deer 
subtlety comes back hacked to bits. ;-)

Margaret FitzWilliam