[Dragaera] Vlad and his father

[Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood]

We can infer (based on some book content) that he learned to cook some 
things from Noish-pa, however (like langosh). And in particular, I 
suspect Vlad's father didn't prepare many Easterner dishes, since he 
seems to have been trying to pretend to be a Dragaeran (rather than 
going the Valabar's route of being accepted by Dragaerans AS a purveyer 
of Eastern cooking).

Alexx Kay wrote:
> An idle notion while re-reading.  Vlad almost never talks about his
> father, and when he does, he is usually contemptuous or dismissive.  But
> it's rare for two chapters to go by without Vlad's deep and abiding love
> of cooking and eating being mentioned.  And who do you think he learned
> those things from?  While we don't, strictly speaking, *know* the answer
> to that, his father the restaurateur seems the most obvious candidate.  So
> it seems that, in some senses, his father's influence on him is incredibly
> strong.

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ErzsŽébet of Catspirit Wood
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