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Friday, April 13, 2007

Delicious

There is something honest about books that get really into describing food; it's like they’re admitting that all literature is, on some level, just a protracted description of food.
One major oversight in this list of food scenes in literarature : where is Brian Jacques? Ever since reading about those medieval mice in Redwall, I have been trying to get my hands on some mead (14 years well spent). Good old BJ.
Also, that scene in Hatchet (or Hatchet 9?) when Hatchet returns from Hatchet Island and has his first meal in civilization, after he has been eating like dirt and berries.
People should not be allowed to use “delicious” to describe anything besides food.