ORIGINAL ENGLISH PASSAGE
The ordinary Fremen family of the sietches lived on simple, healthy fare. (The donkeys that carried the family's belongings also provided milk, which was made into butter, cheese, and kvetch. a clabbered milk drink.) Fruits were mostly dates, figs, and apricots grown in the palmaries, and the occasional portygul or melon imported from Caladan, especially the pink-fleshed, sweet, and fragrant paradan melon. Fruits were eaten fresh, made into conserves, pickled, or dried.
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Details such as fruit from Caladan prevent us from imagining desert life as entirely cut off from the outside world. These everyday details belong to the McNelly corpus.
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FREMEN COOKING
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