Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris is filled with food. I’ve never read (gasp!) Chocolat (yet!), but I imagine that it was also filled with food, although of the sweeter kind. Five Quarters starts out sweet, then almost half way, gets dark and then darker and then a little mysterious. It’s about pleasure [...]
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Una Buona Forchetta
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Una Buona Forchetta. That used to be me. Una buona forchetta means ‘a good fork’, or ‘a good eater’. I’ve always been una buona forchetta, despite my tiny little bones and tiny little chicken legs (the stick part of the chicken leg, not the juicy thigh or drumstick, even). When I was a little kid, [...]
