Posted by Rodger Whitlock on August 06, 1997 at 12:41:07:
In Reply to: Vance Cookbook, anyone? posted by Menno vd Leden on June 19, 1997 at 08:30:38:
> If I (re re)read a Vance I am always amazed how Vance seems
> to be able to describe food in such a way that you would like
> to jump up, run to the kitchen and make it!
> (Not always, we all remember Wyst...;)
> Is there some sort of Vance cookbook where some of his
> recipes are worked out?
> Yum!
Well, don't forget the two or three extraordinary cuisines
described in the Demon Princes series...the Skankers (?) and
one other whose name I forget...full of strong, nay, rank
smelling pungencies and other such inedibilities.
The one of these described as Keith Gersen is looking for Beauty
Dace in "The Star King" is, I suspect, a parody of the contempo-
rary everyday diet of North Americans. One item exactly matches
a string of hotdogs: "pink sausages".