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b_a_n_s_h_e_eЧто-то с налета не вспомню, чтобы кто-то так же восторженно и вкусно описывал еду, как Чарльз Лэм в эссе "A dissertation upon a roast pig." Читаю и слюнки текут, хотя свинину вообще-то не люблю, а поросят мне жалко. Перевод первого отрывка здесь - спасибо ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
4klove
Чарльз Лэм о жареном молочном поросенке:
There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called -- the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance -- with the adhesive oleaginous -- O call it not fat -- but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it -- the tender blossoming of fat -- fat cropped in the bud -- taken in the shoot -- in the first innocence -- the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food -- the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna -- or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result, or common substance.
Чарльз Лэм об ананасе (как верно и как романтично он все описывает!)
Pine-apple is great. She is indeed almost too transcendent -- a delight, if not sinful, yet so like to sinning, that really a tender-conscienced person would do well to pause -- too ravishing for mortal taste, she woundeth and excoriateth the lips that approach her -- like lovers kisses, she biteth she is a pleasure bordering on pain from the fierceness and insanity of her relish -- but she stoppeth at the palate -- she meddleth not with the appetite -- and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently for a mutton chop.
А какие самые вкусные описания еды встречались вам в некулинарной литературе? Кто лучше всех писал или пишет про еду?
4klove Чарльз Лэм о жареном молочном поросенке:
There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called -- the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance -- with the adhesive oleaginous -- O call it not fat -- but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it -- the tender blossoming of fat -- fat cropped in the bud -- taken in the shoot -- in the first innocence -- the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food -- the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna -- or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result, or common substance.
Чарльз Лэм об ананасе (как верно и как романтично он все описывает!)
Pine-apple is great. She is indeed almost too transcendent -- a delight, if not sinful, yet so like to sinning, that really a tender-conscienced person would do well to pause -- too ravishing for mortal taste, she woundeth and excoriateth the lips that approach her -- like lovers kisses, she biteth she is a pleasure bordering on pain from the fierceness and insanity of her relish -- but she stoppeth at the palate -- she meddleth not with the appetite -- and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently for a mutton chop.
А какие самые вкусные описания еды встречались вам в некулинарной литературе? Кто лучше всех писал или пишет про еду?
