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Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 162 | Dear Master Fobagan:
Greetings, I hope this finds you and yours well. I am writing for help with a quote, that is really a bit silly but has turned into a quest for both the Master and myself. It is about cosian wingfish.
Answer
Hello girl,
I will agree that the whole fish can be eaten, providing one takes care not to eat the spines. Also, the liver seems to be considered a delicacy.
The only mention of cooking is that the livers are "braised". However, there is no reference in the Books to 'who' has prepared it. Therefore I cannot support the idea that "only a Master Chef can prepare the fish".
I wish you well,
Fogaban
Following now are all the quotes from the Books:
"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish."
This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. This fish is also sometimes
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 84
referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies. "How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?"
"I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish."
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 85
I tried the liver of the wingfish. Then another swig of Paga.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 86
Cos had many terraces, on which the Ta grapes are grown. Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines. It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle. Their livers are regarded as a delicacy. I recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 139
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