Editing Diaphane (section)

====The Feast of All Colors and None====

This holiday was popular in the time up to the Second Shattering, but has fallen to the status of minor festival in Diaphane, while becoming the major annual celebration in Iridos. Food is the focus of both festivals, but it is a specific, day-long meal. In each course of the meal, the foods served are always of one dominant color. It is said the lesson of the Feast is that it reveals the transience of colors, which all fade into blessed translucence.

The first course is white foods -- generally simply, bland dishes of polished rice. There are fewer following courses; often reduced to red, green, and "blue" courses. But there is another, final course -- the course of translucence. Crushed ices, crystal sugars, gelatins, and delicacies such as rare jellyfishes and transparent cave fish are served with clear and pure water.

-- by Kakita Kojiro