Ah, Claudia Roden. I came across that cookbook while traveling in England more than 30 years ago, and bought my own copy in a London bookstore. It’s wonderful. I would read through the recipes and wish that someone would cook them for me.
And Rapunzel is a tale like this one, where the woman's cravings affect her child.
the opening is utterly delightful: "I fancy they will give you pleasure; or, should they not serve, as armed squadrons, to drive away tedium from your mind, they will at least be as trumpets to incite my companions here to go forth to the field, with greater power than my poor strength possesses, to supply by the abundance of their wit the deficiencies of my discourse."
Ah, Claudia Roden. I came across that cookbook while traveling in England more than 30 years ago, and bought my own copy in a London bookstore. It’s wonderful. I would read through the recipes and wish that someone would cook them for me.
And Parsley is the name of a fairytale heroine! Well, Petrosinella in the original Italian:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pentamerone,_or_The_Story_of_Stories/Petrosinella
And Rapunzel is a tale like this one, where the woman's cravings affect her child.
the opening is utterly delightful: "I fancy they will give you pleasure; or, should they not serve, as armed squadrons, to drive away tedium from your mind, they will at least be as trumpets to incite my companions here to go forth to the field, with greater power than my poor strength possesses, to supply by the abundance of their wit the deficiencies of my discourse."
The Pentamerone is distinctly literary in style.
It is not a style I would write, but in some cases like this I do enjoy reading it.
Parsley-walnut Pesto is very good.
I haven't tried a parsley pesto, so I must put that on my list.