tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post7873063369142938252..comments2024-03-18T11:01:42.459-05:00Comments on Pretty Sinister Books: Printer's Row Book Fair - pt. 2J F Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-4253535635762077692011-06-08T16:28:54.950-05:002011-06-08T16:28:54.950-05:00Also, I was of the opinion the soup was Terripin, ...Also, I was of the opinion the soup was Terripin, a type of turtle, but that may have been the soup at the American Banquet in TMC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-10465619155352231412011-06-08T16:27:28.486-05:002011-06-08T16:27:28.486-05:00I just finished reading THE NERO WOLFE FILES, and ...I just finished reading THE NERO WOLFE FILES, and as I understand it, you have a pretty rare and expensive edition of TMC, the one with the recipes in the back was a limited printing. Good grab. I'm looking to complete my Wolfe set (I have 31 of the 43 books, most paperbacks). If you're in the area of Wolfe volumes, I can provide the wants, I never seem to get to the paperbacks shows since I moved here, as now it's an inter-state jaunt.<br /><br /><br />The other thing fell through, as I thought it might, so that copy of THE CHEIM MANUSCRIPT will be most welcome. I'll email you my address (or did I do that already?) The rest of the haul is excellent too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-43614287395564605962011-06-08T09:28:33.686-05:002011-06-08T09:28:33.686-05:00Roger -
Thanks for the gastronomic history lesson...Roger -<br /><br />Thanks for the gastronomic history lesson. It's not that I never heard of turtle soup and I'm very well aware of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> and the Mock Turtle weeping and lamenting his fate. It's just that a snapping turtle is a creture I used to see in our creek in our backyard in Pennsylvania and I'd never think of capturing it and preparing it for a meal. Some of this food labeled as gourmet seemed like "hillbilly food." I know that makes me sound like an classist snob, but there you have it. I don't even know what to say about squirrel becoming popular again. Was it <i>Winter's Bone</i> that did it? (kidding)J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-57986632285429336792011-06-08T01:51:46.755-05:002011-06-08T01:51:46.755-05:00Yes, Nero Wolfe ate lavish meals, consisting of at...Yes, Nero Wolfe ate lavish meals, consisting of at least three courses, prepared by his live-in chef Fritz Brenner and there's even a cookery book collecting all these recipes of dishes and deserts he has gobbled down during his cases. <br /><br />Great heist by the way! :)TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-29031981164199514322011-06-08T01:36:15.589-05:002011-06-08T01:36:15.589-05:00"There are others with equally exotic ingredi..."There are others with equally exotic ingredients, but those three stood out for me as things I didn't ever think of as gourmet food."<br />Turtle soup was a nineteenth-century luxury served at the Lord Mayor's banquets in London until the turtles were protected. You can still find recipes for mock-turtle soup, as featured in Alice in Wonderland. Squiirrel is becoming more popular too.Rogernoreply@blogger.com