Tag: Food

• Banana Breakfast

  

  This one’s been percolating in the back of my head pretty much since day one of the project. Parts of it have been bubbling away in the actual physical world since late 2019, creeping toward readiness. The time has come. From Mrs Quoad and her Disgusting English Candy Drill for drink ninety-nine, on to crest…

  mjhorn

  February 19, 2021

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Other spirits

  Brandy, Food, France, Homebrew, Mead, Pirate Prentice

• Merry Christmas! (Fruitcake soaked in brandy)

  

  Merry Christmas all! The day’s over here in Australia; probably just beginning for Tommy Pynchon himself. Among my celebrations, I’ve squeezed in a fruit cake soaked in brandy, as recommended by Mason in Mason & Dixon. A nice chunk of Christmas does appear in M&D, but the fruit cake doesn’t actually herald from any of the…

  mjhorn

  December 26, 2014

  Mason & Dixon, Other spirits

  Christmas, Dixon, Food, Mason

• Nero d’Avola

  Early in Bleeding Edge, Maxine pays a visit to the VC (which I’m assuming is venture capitalist) who’d supported hwgaahwgh.com (which address now conveniently directs one to the book’s wiki). The VC is Rockwell “Rocky” Slagiatt, who’s dropped his surname’s terminal vowel in order “to sound more anglo,” despite then “becoming disingenuously ethnic again” in Maxine’s…

  mjhorn

  July 29, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Wine

  Food, Italy, Maxine, Nero d’Avola, Pynchon, Slagiatt