A TASTY LIST of FOOD short stories/poems
mhron
mhron at UMICH.EDU
Thu Sep 4 15:05:39 UTC 2003
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
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Madelaine Hron
Dept. of Comparative Literature
2015 Tisch Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
Tel (734) 763-2351
Fax (734) 764-8503
Email: mhron at umich.edu
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