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Gaylen, the King’s messenger, a skinny boy of twelve, is off to poll the kingdom, traveling from town to farmstead to town on his horse, Marrow. At first it is merely a question of disagreement at the royal castle over which food should stand for Delicious in the new dictionary. But soon it seems that the search for Delicious had better succeed if civil war is to be avoided.
Gaylen’s quest leads him to the woldweller, a wise, 900-year-old creature who lives alone at the precise center of the forest; to Canto, the minstrel who sings him an old song about a mermaid child and who gives him a peculiar good-luck charm; to the underground domain of the dwarfs; and finally to Ardis who might save the kingdom from havoc.

宰相狄克令在编纂新词典的时候犯了难：王宫里所有的人对“美味”一词的定义都各不相同，众人争吵不休，甚至大打出手。为了解决争论，十二岁的小男孩盖伦被选为国王的使者，前往王国各地广集民意，以选出最能诠释“美味”的东西。他骑着骏马美骆，一路上经历各种奇遇，见到了许多不同寻常的人物：900岁的林间精灵，叫歌多的吟游诗人——他为盖伦唱了有关小美人鱼的歌曲，还有居住在山里的小矮人……然而，一个巨大的阴谋正在酝酿着。最后，盖伦意识到，假如想让王国免于一场战乱，他的“找寻美味”之旅只能成功，不能失败。这时候他遇见了能拯救王国于浩劫的美人鱼阿迪丝……