The Burial of Hunger
In a paragraph referencing culinary history from Apicius on the order of courses, Mario Pei presents a sentence containing and extending a long repeated pattern:
Once the arts of civilization are established, it seems normal to open the meal with food elements that stimulate the appetite, and to close it with foods of a cloying nature, which put the seal upon the tomb of departed hunger.Mario Pei - Introduction to The Talisman Italian Cook Book by Ada Boni.
And so for day 2368
07.06.2013