tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post7759008559732894230..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: A Feast of Readingzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-84451295547474843922010-05-23T02:17:37.580+02:002010-05-23T02:17:37.580+02:00I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my l...I eat my peas with honey<br />I've done it all my life<br />It makes the peas taste funny<br />But it keep them on your knife.Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-13436530604542241532010-05-22T23:50:05.523+02:002010-05-22T23:50:05.523+02:00Worm - like Gaw, we are suggestible and have been ...Worm - like Gaw, we are suggestible and have been knocking back Sydney rock oysters and cold white wine ever since your comment. I've only ever read The Old Man and the Sea but am going to return to Hemingway, inspired by that quote.<br />Sophie - Parents are so mean. Do you ever have peas with your waffles (who was it who said you should eat peas with honey so they stay on the fork? Maple syrup should serve the same purpose, I guess)zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-15124696118008040622010-05-22T22:27:33.062+02:002010-05-22T22:27:33.062+02:00When young I had a nasty dose of e-coli courtesy o...When young I had a nasty dose of e-coli courtesy of my primary school kitchen. I spent a lot of time at home and wasn't allowed to eat anything much for what seemed like an age. The book that tormented me most as I lay in bed recovering was one of the Richard Scarry picture books. It showed a young bear getting ready for school and illustrated all the stuff he was going to eat for breakfast - waffles with bacon and maple syrup, cereal, milk, orange juice and so forth. (I think there was also a picture containing peas although my memory might be playing tricks.) Looking at these illustrations caused a terrible yearning which my unfeeling parents did nothing to assuage and a love of waffles that is with me to this day.Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-67017056990948414892010-05-22T17:27:49.602+02:002010-05-22T17:27:49.602+02:00I'm that suggestible that I'm going to pop...I'm that suggestible that I'm going to pop over to Steve Hatt to buy half-a-dozen oysters right now. Is there an oyster marketing board who could sponsor this comment thread?Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-66914959218989718152010-05-22T10:32:18.980+02:002010-05-22T10:32:18.980+02:00I find this bit the best!:
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i think ald...I find this bit the best!:<br /><br />i sa e.g.<br />i think aldous huxley is rather off form in point counterpoint, peason. And he repli i simply couldn’t agree with you more rat face but peason is very 4th rate and hav not got beyond bulldog drummond.<br /><br />Brilliant!!! I remember Bulldog Drummond well<br /><br />I think, from memory, that Dickens gets into lingering detail of food in A Christmas Carol<br /><br />Hemingway:<br /><br />“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”<br /><br />-A Moveable Feastwormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-36830811616356322622010-05-22T08:30:45.829+02:002010-05-22T08:30:45.829+02:00Gaw - a) loved the video on your site: the relentl...Gaw - a) loved the video on your site: the relentless cheerfulness of the people involved is really the only sensible approach to take in the face of London Transport, don't you think?<br />b) you aren't actually suggesting that Molesworth is children's literature are you (although I suppose that might explain its mysterious absence from Harold Bloom's canon)?zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-84827184316669330942010-05-22T08:19:52.702+02:002010-05-22T08:19:52.702+02:00Other children's literature is good on food. T...Other children's literature is good on food. Tolkien in The Hobbit and LotR: seed cakes, honey and cream. Roald Dahl (geddit?) has tons of great food descriptions with some less savoury ones (Fantastic Mr Fox - eurgh).Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.com