Warmth And Light In Two Timelines

Time Patrol agents, Manson Everard and Janne Floris, eat in the Ambrosia, a Surinam-Caribbean restaurant on the quiet Stadthouderskade near the Museumplein in Amsterdam:

"Maybe the sense of evanescence, this warmth and light and savor no more than a moment in an unbounded darkness, something that could come to never having been, gave depth to pleasure."
-Poul Anderson, "Star Of The Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 467-640 AT p. 522.

In another millennium of another timeline, a travel sled, thickly padded to keep out the cold, is heated by a ceramic stove and lit by an alcohol lantern and is:

"...an oasis of warmth and light in the vast white-black emptiness around them..."
-SM Stirling, Snowbrother (New York, 1985), Chapter 11, p. 158.

Savor fills the sled:

bubbling wheat porridge with maple syrup and nuts;
grilled bacon;
toasted bread;
heated milk with sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.

The bacon is eaten in a toasted sandwich with pickled tomatoes.

Thus, an evening meal in one timeline and breakfast in another.