Category Archives: quote
Bear-wrapped Apples — Prince Caspian
Illyrio Mopatis/Food = OTP
…hot peppers and pearl onions in a wooden bowl, goose livers, fat black mushrooms kissed with garlic and bathed in butter, eels and sweetmeats, bowls of black cherries in sweet […]
Arya Serves, Sweetrobin Sulks
“She got along well enough with the cook. Umma would slap a knife into her hand and point at an onion, and Arya would chop it. Umma would shove her […]
Jo March’s Dinner Disasters
“‘Mother isn’t sick, only very tired, and she says she is going to stay quietly in her room all day and let us do the best we can. It’s a […]
Ode to Conger Chowder by Pablo Neruda
In the storm-tossed Chilean sea lives the rosy conger, giant eel of snowy flesh. And in Chilean stewpots, along the coast, was born the chowder, thick and succulent, a boon […]
Daisy Learns to Cook
“Quite a thrill pervaded the school-room when Daisy was dismissed at eleven o’clock, for everyone knew that now she was going to have the new and mysterious play. Many eyes […]
Soup & Journey Food in the Middle Ages
“Brother Luke brought soup in which dark bread was to be sopped. Robin didn’t want any of it. He wanted only to go on with his whittling, and turned away […]
Chesterton’s Dreams of Anarchist Diets
“The cab pulled up before a particularly dreary and greasy beershop, into which Gregory rapidly conducted his companion. They seated themselves in a close and dim sort of bar-parlour, at […]
Anna Karenina’s Dinner Parties
“When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure […]