Click photo to enlarge "The Search for Delicious" is written by
Natalie Babbitt. <p class='dotPhoto'>All Chico E-R photos are
available <a href=''>here</a>.</p> There was trouble in the
Kingdom. The Prime Minister was making a dictionary. Of course,
that was not the real trouble. The real trouble was "delicious"
— or rather the definition of it. The King and Queen and all the
other members of the court had very different ideas about what
was delicious.  So begins the quest of Vaungaylen to search the
Kingdom for the true definition of delicious.  Enter Hemlock,
the Queen's brother. Determined to prevent Vaungaylen from
completing his quest he sets out to spread lies and turn the
people against him and each other.  And what of the mysterious
mermaid, and the dwarves, and the elusive woldweller that no one
seems to believe in anymore? Are they just the stuff of legend?
Or do they actually exist?  "The Search for Delicious" is a
charming but deep story about the follies of human nature.
Although written in the s