Didn’t get the memo (or the menu)
A wry comment by Steinbeck on his 1946 visit to Georgia, and the hotel in which he and Robert Capa...
A thinking breakfast
This is one of two delightful quotations from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan in which the characters mention their need to...
Food-rich water
Here's to hoping the future will see the ocean still full of food-rich water.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape...
Laying on a spread
You may have noticed that I can't resist descriptions of feasts, be it fine breakfasts, picnics, or other spreads. Here...
Civilization, one scoop or two?
‘What is civilization?’ A deep and vital question we need to keep asking. I liked this pithy response, particularly one...
Breakfast before a journey
Thorin the chief dwarf places his breakfast order having invited himself to stay at Bilbo Baggins’ house.
See also the...
Strip-cartoon dreams
Yes, you can picture a cartoon tramp dreaming of a spit-roasted chicken. And those six-on-a-spit rotating rotisseries of plump, golden...
Slumgullion
A deliciously awful North American word meaning a cheap or insubstantial stew. Can't recall what I was reading to come...
Feeding & reading: nuts vs apples
Thoreau's observation on the pitfalls of eating nuts. However, the upside, as far as I gather, is that nuts are...
Dredger-bucket mouth
You can see this gaping maw hoovering up all in its path.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape for the...
Care package
Rory Stewart has a moment of home comfort when some British soldiers he encounters on his hike across Afghanistan brew...
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