Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He like thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with breadcrumbs, fried hencod’s roe. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of scented urine. – James Joyce
Category: Food For Thought
ELV’s Thought for the Day
There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken or wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love? – M. F. K. Fisher
ELV’s Thought for the Day
“…paradoxically, tourists empty a place by their presence. They turn (a city) into a spectacle without depth.” – Peter Ackroyd