Not many authors can live long enough to poison their readers, at least not in the physical sense. Take, for example, the different types of dwarven bread. Crushed brick is not commonly added to food in the UK, not even to sausages. It's too hard for teeth. Granite is rarely served to people on a platter. The old proverb “you can eat a pound of dirt before you die” does not imply that this pound should end up all in one plate. In addition, almost all of our food, with the exception of the clotted cream cake, was designed not for aggressive actions. We must therefore warn that strict compliance has been sacrificed to ensure that we continue to have as many readers after the publication of this book as before. Our goal was to convey the look and feel of the original Discworld cuisine, while at the same time avoiding at all costs its true taste.