"...a snack in a restaurant featuring outsystem food."
-Poul Anderson, "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 175-197 AT p. 187.
Adzel, on Earth, eats (a lot) at the Silver Dragon Chinese Food and Chop Suey Palace. Nicholas van Rijn likes onion soup a la Ansa here, Dominic Flandry recommends an Ansan vermouth here and I think that the Technic History has more about mixing Terrestrial and extraterrestrial foods?
In fact:
The only other Avalonian city is Centauri at the mouth of the Sagittarius in the Gulf of Centaurs. In the Phoenix House, Tabitha/Hrill orders a catflower cocktail. She and Chris/Arinnian eat piscoid-and-tomato chowder, beef-and-shua pie, salad of clustergrain leaf and pears and drink coffee spiced with witchroot and a bottle of vintage dago. The Nest, a tavern for ornithoids, is the tallest building in Centauri with a gravshaft to its rooftop for humans who have not brought flying gear. It is unwalled, protected from rain by a vitryl canopy. Insectoids circle fluoroglobes and a service robot serves New African beer.
-copied from Who Knows Of Avalon?
3 comments:
Paul:
There's a brief scene in A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows when Flandry has a meeting with Tachwyr the Dark, and — not by prearrangement; realizing it amuses them — each chooses a form of liquor from the other's home culture. Flandry picks Merseian telloch, while Tachwyr reaches for Scotch. (They also toast in one another's language; "tor ychwei" and "Here's to you.")
David,
I remember. Also, when Tachwyr asks Flandry whether he is still a bachelor, Tachwyr has to speak Anglic because the Eriau equivalent would be a mortal insult.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul and DAVID!
And in A STONE IN HEAVEN we see mention of Flandry and Miriam Abrams dining on imported sea food native to Unan Besar.
Sean
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