{"id":1224,"date":"2016-01-27T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-09-14T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:48:11","slug":"literary-lunches-rebecca-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Literary Lunches: Rebecca West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we’ll kick off what will hopefully be a literary lunch series, in which I’ll showcase a (usually)\u00a0simple meal from a great book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>All I had time for today was a quick lunch — a couple of slices of\u00a0prosciutto di parma<\/em> (Citterio, aged 420 days, Trader Joe’s; $6.49 for 4 oz.) on a leftover hunk of p<\/em><\/span>ain de campagne<\/em> (Leonora’s<\/a>; de-thawed free “sympathy loaf” given to me the day before Snowzilla<\/a>). This spartan lunch reminded me of Dragutin, Rebecca West’s chauffeur in the Macedonia chapter<\/a> of Black Lamb, Grey Falcon<\/em>. All I’m missing is some good Hungarian, or better, Serbian paprika.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the step of the automobile Dragutin sat and ate his lunch between the two young soldiers, who had the dutiful and dedicated look I have noticed so often in Yugoslav conscripts. His lunch was, as always, ascetic and chosen in accordance with the principles of sympathetic magic: he liked lean meat and rough black bread and paprika, and he regarded as weakening all soft and slippery things like butter and kaymak and sardines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Certainly no sardines on my sandwich. But if only one could get some decent njegu\u0161ki pr\u0161ut\u00a0<\/em>around here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Today we’ll kick off what will hopefully be a literary lunch series, in which I’ll showcase a (usually)\u00a0simple meal from a great book.\u00a0 All I had time for today was a quick lunch — a couple of slices of\u00a0prosciutto di parma (Citterio, aged 420 days, Trader Joe’s; $6.49 for 4 oz.) on a leftover hunk … <\/p>\n

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