AND A FOODIE QUOTE OR SO TO END THE NIGHT .......


" Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
ANTHONY BOURDAIN.  ' Kitchen Confidential '


Anthony Bourdain's book about working in restaurant kitchens is well worth a read .. you can find it very reasonably priced here on at the Book Depository  http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Kitchen-Confidential-Anthony-Bourdain/9780747553557


AND .........

My two favourite literary food lists.

From OLIVER GOLDSMITHS'   "She Stoops to Conquer" .
Hardcastle's menu at his pretend 'Inn'

At the top  a pig in pruin sauce
A pork pie
A boiled rabbit and sausages
A florentine
A shaking pudding
A dish of tiff - taff - taffety cream
And at the bottom   a calf's tongue and brain

I think I could do without the calf's brains ( though I'd be prepared to give it a go ! ) but I long to try tiff - taff - taffety cream and a shaking pudding ...... blancmange perhaps?

The second food list is the trunk full of Christmas goodies and presents that arrive for Katy and Clover in Susan Coolidge's  " What Katy Did at School "
When I was young,  I read and reread the list of cakes, fruits and candies that the box contained and desperately wanted to eat those mysterious American treats ..... jumbles, frosted plum cake, crullers..... I had no idea what they were but longed to taste them !
( I still don't know what jumblies and crullers are ! )


" The top of the box was mostly taken up with 
four square paper boxes

Each box held a different kind of cake. 

One was full of jumbles, another of ginger-snaps, 

a thu'd of crullers, and the fourth contained a big 

square loaf of frosted plum-cake, with a circle of 

sugar almonds set in the frosting. 

 .................................................................

Never was such a wonderful box. It appeared 
to have no bottom whatever. Under the presents 
were parcels of figs, prunes, almonds, raisins, candy ; 
under those, apples and pears. There seemed no 
end to the surprises. "

Goodnight.     Sweet Dreams !