Can't Resist It!

SM Stirling describes sex in (excruciating?) detail but that is not what I cannot resist. It's the food. Gwen eats:

johnnycake (I had never heard of it);
fire engine (likewise);
chicken souse;
grits.
fresh avocado. (Drakon, p. 219)

At earlier meals, she had eaten:

conch soup;

grilled marlin steak;
salad. (p. 141)

- and:

soup;
a seventeen-ounce pepper steak with a faint touch of garlic, slightly bloody in the middle (I am mostly vegetarian but get the message that this is tasty food);
pommes frites;
a pastry;
whipped cream on a kiwi tart, a "....smooth-

bland-buttery combination of flavors..." (pp. 155-159)

Another meal:

"...had been long, complex and memorable..." (p. 184)

- and is followed by "...coffee and liqueurs." (p. 185)

I can't help it. This food thing is really getting to me.