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more on Brillat-Savarin
This one's for the lawyers... ;-)
I also finally finished Amy Stewart's Flower Confidential last night (it seemed appropriate to do so on V-day), and then I turned to my Southern Living handbook to see if it had anything to say about building cold frames. (We have two window frames, one with the glass still intact. I shall probably turn them into cold frame lids eventually -- but right now it would be an elaborate variation of procrastination. Back to reading about bisphosphonates and selective estrogen receptor modulators...)
He often took his manuscript [of Physiologie du Goût] to court. In fact, it was in idle moments in the halls of justice that he wrote most of it. His other companion, besides his manuscript, was his dog, who went under the uncompromising name of Ida. She followed him everywhere and sat on the bench next to him both in the courtroom and in his favorite Café Lemblin. [His biographer] Monselet relates that during the hunting season the judge's presence was sometimes pungent. This was due to his habit of shooting small game birds and then carrying them around for days in the capacious pockets of his Prince Albert-like coat. As the birds became higher, his neighbors on the judicial bench became more uncomfortable, understandably enough.
-- Samuel Chamberlain, Bouquet de France
I also finally finished Amy Stewart's Flower Confidential last night (it seemed appropriate to do so on V-day), and then I turned to my Southern Living handbook to see if it had anything to say about building cold frames. (We have two window frames, one with the glass still intact. I shall probably turn them into cold frame lids eventually -- but right now it would be an elaborate variation of procrastination. Back to reading about bisphosphonates and selective estrogen receptor modulators...)
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In the meantime, I'm frying kale with bacon. A local fish joint has 2-for-1 oysters on Tuesdays. Perhaps I will bribe myself this week or next.
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Maybe the next time I'm at Whole Foods I will splurge on some shellfishies.
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On a separate note, I rather like the last two pages of I Capture the Castle and think they might be worth visiting even if the rest of the book isn't one's cuppa. (But I am also a sucker for eloquent yearning, so perhaps not.)
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As for the Dodie Smith, I didn't actually get out the Castle book, just the Moon one. Sadly, although you recommend it, I think any interest in eloquent yearning is outdone by the overwrought-ness of what I did read. But if I run across Castle in a bookstore or something, I will flip to the end :)