A TASTY LIST of FOOD short stories/poems

[Elena Gapova]

Smth else that comes to mind - Gogol's "Vechera na hutore bliz Dikan'ki" and
how blacksmith Vakula thinks that tsarina in St. Petersburg eats only "med i
salo", and how he looks at "chyort" eating vareniki, and these just jump
into his mouth after having bathed in smetana.

Also, a Belarusian epigram (ascribed to Pimen Panchanka?):

Жылі ў ателях і матэлях,
Мы пілі ром і вустрыц елі (rum stands for exotic travel, and oysters as
symbols of luxury) ,
Але няма нічога, браце (brother, vocative case)
Смачней за бульбы ў роднай хаце.
(More delicious than potatoes in one's native farmhouse).

Elena Gapova

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Sent: 4 September 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] A TASTY LIST of FOOD short stories/poems


> Dear Seelangers:
>
> I would just like to thank all of you for your delectable suggestions that
> you sent me off line!  I opened my box this morning and it was full of
> tasty morsels for me to sample...!! It is clear that all of you enjoy
> food... ;-)
>
> Since many of you offered me so many treats, I thought that perhaps you
> might be interested in the smorgasbord menu that was prepared for me. So I
> compiled a list of food stuff. I was also sent many a savory synopses and
> some appetizing recipes, but those will remain secrets of the chef... ;-)
>
>
> - Please to the Table by Anya?Von?Bremzen, includes little snippets of
> Russian food-related prose (Chekhov and the like) as well as general
> discussions of Russian food customs.
>
> -  The Domostroi (in Carolyn Pouncys wonderful translation, if you need it
> in English)
>
> -  Joyce Toomre's translation of Podarok molodym khoziajkam, Classic
> Russian Cooking: Elena MolokhovetsA Gift to Young Housewives.
>
> - Nadezhda Teffi story called  'Love' (from GORODOK 1927)
>
> - Shalamov story about the narrator NOT eating a piece of bread entrusted
> to him by another zek.
>
> - any number of camp works by Varlam Shalamov (esp. Lend-Lease, A Piece of
> Meat). - - Sukhovo-Kobylin's short comic play "Smert' Tarelkina"
>
> - Chekhovs "The Stupid Frenchman" (Glupyi frantsuz) and  "The Siren."
>
> - Gorky's "26 Men and One Girl"
>
> - Bunin's "Antonovskie iabloki"
>
> - Vysotsky's "Esli b vodka byla na odnogo" (vodka) and  Vysotsky's
"Smotriny"
>
> - Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's) "Babette's Feast.
>
> - report in the New Yorker about one of Francois Mitterand's last meals.
>
> - Wislawa Szymborska's poem "The Onion"
>
> - Keats' "St. Agnes' Eve"
>
> - Hrabal's "Postrizeni"
>
> - Charles Simic short essays (and, I believe, poems) about food.
>
> - Dostoevsky's Skvernyi anekdot has a good dinner scene.
>
> - Zoshchenko stories
>
> - Tarasov-Rodionovs novella Chocolate
>
> - Kollontai's Love of the Worker Bees (Vasilissa Malygina).
>
> - just about everything Platonov wrote.
>
> - Ron LeBlancs articles
>
> - Issac Babel's "My First Goose."
>
> - Virginia Woolf's lunch description
>
> - Gogol's  descriptions of dinners in"the inspector general;"
>
> - Tolstoys Anna Karenina.
>
> - Solzhenitsyn's _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_ or _Cancer Ward_
>
> - "Mieso" ("Meat"), film by Piotr Szulkin,
>
> -  film "Chef in Love"
>
> Thank you all again!
> Bon appetit!
> Madelaine
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Madelaine Hron
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> University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
>
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> Email: mhron at umich.edu
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