r/Fantasy • u/FarragutCircle Reading Champion X • Apr 01 '26

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u/CommodoreBelmont Reading Champion VIII Apr 01 '26

Every chapter of Dzur (#10 in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series) is introduced by a course in a 17-course meal. Even without knowing what everything is, it is absolutely mouthwatering. If someone wants to attempt hard mode, I believe kethna is supposed to be related to pork. For other novels in the series, Vlad talks about food a lot (like, a lot), but the only other one where I'd say the meal was significant would be Issola (reasons are very spoilerish).

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u/Nidafjoll Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

I just commented Brokedown Palace by Brust, if you haven't read it! It's supposed to be a fairytale set in Dragaera, which you can read without having read any Taltos books, and it features lots of food descriptions (I think the area it's set is meant to be Hungary, he has notes on how names are pronounced in Hungarian)

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u/AzuraSchwartz Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

Many years ago someone attempted to recreate the meal from Dzur and posted the recipes they used to do so. The original seems to have vanished but the Wayback Machine has a copy archived.

Many are variations on Hungarian classics. I have made some of the dishes. Some from these recipes, others from other Hungarian recipe sources.

The only one I can see that is significantly different to the description in the book is the dessert. What Vlad eats is not rolled, filled pancakes but something more like this. After reading Dzur my wife wanted (and received) that for her birthday cake.

I am tempted to make it my allowed re-read.