Good Food

A good writer always captures his readers' attention with sufficiently detailed descriptions of good food. For Tom and Roy's first meal in the Commonwealth of New Virginia, we are treated to what, elsewhere on this blog, I have called list-descriptions. First, smells:

garlic;
fried onions;
roasting meat;
brewing coffee;
baking bread.

Then they are served a bouillabaisse rich with:

prawns;
clams;
crab;
rock-cod;
eel;
whiting.

The waiter adds rouille of:

garlic;
fish stock;
crumbs;
red pepper -

- laid on steaming bread with olive oil, accompanied by chilled white wine and followed by:

grilled potatoes with herbs;
green salad;
a beef-and-olive daube -

- accompanied by red wine.

Superb cooking and better materials.

Remember our earlier introduction to Indian food. Also here.