FOOD short stories/poems

[mhron]

Thanks Miriam for your Czech contribution! Mustn't forget that in all my
culture pot-au-feu!

Otherwise, how are you doing? How is baby? The pictures you sent me were
truly precious. I am sorry I have not answered right away but Aug was a bit
hectic for me; my sister was married and I was off in Edmonton visiting and
then hiking in the Rockies...

Hope you are well, and enjoying your bundle of joy!
pac a pusu,
Madla

At 08:31 PM 9/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Madelaine,
>
>Hrabal's Postriziny is a good suggestion - especially the zabijacka and
>then the entire "veprove hody" scene. Plenty of images and metaphors.....
>
>
>Regards
>Miriam
>
>
>Leslie Farmer wrote:
>
>>The first story that comes to mind is Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's)
>>"Babette's Feast." On a more modern note, one of Trevanian's spy novels
>>features a
>>gourmet dinner ordered by a man who can eat very little--in fact, is dying.
>>There was a longish story or report in the New Yorker about one of Francois
>>Mitterand's last meals--supposedly, orlotans. Wislawa Szymborska wrote a poem
>>about The Onion, included in English translation in a volume of her collected
>>works.   There is a huge, delicious (and, eventually, uneaten) spread in
>>Keats'
>>"St. Agnes' Eve". In "Postrizeni" Hrabal wrote at length about the
>>collection of
>>mushrooms.   And that's all the literary food I can bear to contemplate at
>>the moment, probably because I ate too much of a thin-crust pizza
>>(mushroom and
>>onion).
>>
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