![]() ![]() She put them together with thought and gratitude, and never seemed to realize that her cuisine was one of intense romantic strangeness to everyone but herself. The salads and stews she made from these little shy weeds were indeed peculiar, but she blended and cooked them so skillfully that they never lost their fresh salt crispness. But she did flit about, picking leaves from other gardens than her own and wandering like the Lolly Willowes of Laguna along the cliff-tops and the beaches looking in the night light for sea-spinach and pink ice-plant. ![]() I have never eaten such strange things as there in her dark smelly room, with the waves roaring at the foot of the cliff People said that Sue robbed garbage pails at night. And what you glean from the sum total of all the stories and the people and the sure-handed sketches of the meals she writes about is that, you may serve nearly anything, as long as it’s cooked out of rightness and cleverness, and brought forth with dignity.įrom “How to Be Cheerful Through Starving” in How to Cook a Wolf, which is a sort of cookbook for wartime, rationing, and all sorts of very real hungers: The real prescriptions for how to sustain yourself and others are in her narratives. ![]() Like a cake soggy with rum, The Art of Eating is heavily laced with recipes: delicious, extra fortifying for cold, grey days…but not necessary. ![]()
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