Posted by: Epicurean on: September 24, 2011
A lover recalls the precious seconds of a summer lunch with a doomed fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain in 1940 … That Summer by Andrew Greig The meal lingers in my mouth’s mind still. There was a handwritten menu in front of each of us. Oysters or smoked salmon or grapefruit Thick or [...]
Posted by: Epicurean on: September 18, 2011
Watch out there’s a sociopath about … The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Tom celebrated by going to a Roman night club and ordering a superb dinner which he ate in elegant solitude at a candlelit table for two. He did not at all mind dining and going to the theatre alone. It gave [...]
Posted by: Epicurean on: September 4, 2011
After coffee he would take a small glass of cognac and that completed the cure.
