tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post2558253526127664207..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Waugh Foodzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-55340916724253807732016-09-23T19:13:01.741+02:002016-09-23T19:13:01.741+02:00Ah Reuben's. I'm going to look that meal u...Ah Reuben's. I'm going to look that meal up. You may be conflating a meal enjoyed there with the dinner at a fish place near Victoria that Peregrine gives to Virginia one evening when Guy is recovering from a parachute jump. I shall go and investigate.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-41782353149760174362016-09-23T03:52:19.405+02:002016-09-23T03:52:19.405+02:00Mayonnaise this evening on sandwiches, and a refer...Mayonnaise this evening on sandwiches, and a reference to it seen on-line today, reminded me of another meal, certainly in the third volume, probably shared by Virginia and Guy's uncle. It was at a restaurant on good terms doubtful characters, perhaps persons dealing in the black market; and when someone (the leftist peer's wife?) asked about their mayonnaise recipe, she was informed that it consisted of olive oil and eggs. My stepmother, who spent the war years stateside, took this to be an obvious lie; my father, who spent some of 1944 in England, supposed--I think correctly--that it was the truth, and that the owner simply purchased on the black market.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-66127802805433088342016-09-13T13:58:31.867+02:002016-09-13T13:58:31.867+02:00Oh YES, I forgot that one: "men sat round an ...Oh YES, I forgot that one: "men sat round an iron cauldron; in it there seethed chickens and hares and kids, pigs and peppers and cucumbers and garlic and rice and crusts of bread and dumplings and grated cheese and pungent roots and great soggy nameless white tubers and wisps of succulent green and sea-salt and a good deal of red wine and olive oil."<br />Ludovic is the most sinister of characters.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-14813150586696921502016-09-13T12:25:18.072+02:002016-09-13T12:25:18.072+02:00The other evening, in Joyce Cary's Memoir of t...The other evening, in Joyce Cary's <i>Memoir of the Bobotes</i>, a memoir of Red Cross service during the Balkan War of 1912-1913, I read <br /><br />"You object again that this history is all of meals, of stew and eggs.<br /> Anyone will tell you that a war is not made up of fighting, but just exactly of stew, and if you are lucky, eggs."<br /><br />The meal I remember from <i>Officers and Gentleman</i> involves the stew the Free Spaniards have cooked in a cave, and which Ludovic sees that Hound shall have some of. It has been a long time since I read the book, so the details of that meal may have got mixed up with the gypsy's stew in <i>The Wind in the Willows</i>.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com