Cooking the books
Sep 30, 2021
3 minutes
LITERATURE IS STARVED of nourishment. Der Mann ist was er isst; so novelists ought to use meals to delineate personality. In most fiction, however, characters eat too rarely for realism, and when a meal does intrude, we usually hear too little about it.
Exceptions are proof. The ritual barbecues Homer describes place the feasters in what lit-crit types would call “a culture of masculinity”. The eatingcompetition in the , which ends
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