syllabub: words on food
Monday, May 18, 2009
Prunes
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Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own begins with lunch. Novelists, she observes, might write about meals, but “seldom spare a word for wha...
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Sunday, January 04, 2009
A is for Apple
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A is for Apple. B is for Burgle. C is for Chomp. And D – consequently – is for Do a Runner. I recently visited an English Stately Home a...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008
Brandy Snaps
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I've decided to apprentice myself to the arts of pliancy. Quiet habits of severity have edged into my life. Which is not to say that a...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
An Egg
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Humpty Dumpty is not an egg. At least, he is not necessarily an egg. The rhyming riddle documenting his accident never specifies his specie...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Fruitcake
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Port Meadow is a large and ancient grazing ground in Oxfordshire. It is a floodmeadow, flanked by a thin, brambled-over stretch of the Tham...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Bitter Orange
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Weddings – pallid, repetitious – happen beneath the orange blossom, but bitter births, the ballads tell us, happen beneath the thorn. Bitt...
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