I was asked to join the blog tour,very happy as it was one of my favourite reads last year and a book I feel people should get to know bettr ,anyway I thought a few words on some of the food served during the meal would be fun .I did review The dinner last year and Alan from words of mercury kicked of the tour yesterday any way lets look at the food .
The dinner menu
Starter
Crayfish with baby onions dressed in a tarragon vinaigrette
Main course
Fillet of Guinea fowl
wrapped in ultra thin german bacon
on a bed of lettuce
Desert
A parfait of home made chocolate and shaved almonds
and grated walnuts
Topped with our own Blackberries fresh from the garden
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Starter
Well I look at the crayfish and thought two things about why it might be chosen .One that they are fish that live of clean the water around them and maybe that is a fore warning of what is about to happen in the meal .The other point is there not Lobster smaller and is the maybe a point is this about a small fish in a big world ,one of the brother is a politician and is he maybe a small fish not the big one he thinks he is .
Main course
The main course again has Guinea fowl, which like the crayfish is a smaller version of fowl that one would usually eat and why is the bacon German ? at this point the action round the table is starting to get heat up as the two brothers discuss what their they are there for I do wonder what Dave lamb would say as he saw the four people round the table discussing there sons actions .
Desert
Parfait is a hard dish to make as it takes time and care to master .Strange rather like the decisions the two brothers and the wives are making round the table if one step goes wrong the outcome will be completely wrong .Blackberries from the garden maybe shows that the politician brother needs to get back to the people and maybe have something everyone would eat like Blackberries we’ve picked up ourselves .
Well sure I’m wrong but thought a quick look at the foods the brothers and wives ate during the dinner .
Do you ever wonder about the food mentioned in books you read ?
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Do you ever wonder about the food in books you read ?
Who, me? No, never notice it. There is food in books?
Ha true got that a bit wrong thanks
At times I wonder if I actually focus too much on the food in books. But I always suppress those dark, destructive thoughts and resolve to write about food even more.
There is actually a serious argument to be made about the aesthetic purpose of food in fiction, so I am not apologetic. Most fiction has insufficient food.
“After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny walked back to the breakfast-room with a very saddened heart to grieve over the melancholy change; and there her uncle kindly left her to cry in peace, conceiving, perhaps, that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her tender enthusiasm, and that the remaining cold pork bones and mustard in William’s plate might but divide her feelings with the broken egg-shells in Mr. Crawford’s.” (Mansfield Park, Ch, 29)
This be up your street then and agree I’ve read books with no mention of food strange as we eat three times a day one and all
Currently reading The kitchen of half truth and it is full of food and references to food.
Those pictures are making me hungary.
I always wonder about the food that is mentioned in books. Come to think of it I wonder about food mentioned anywhere.
Yikes. I scrolled down to the dessert bit. 🙂 I never notice when food is mentioned in books: I probably skip over those parts.