From the sublime to the bathetic in Jorge Amado’s The War of the Saints. She put down the milk pitcher and picked up the coffee pot. Adalgisa didn’t serve a full dinner as an evening meal; at most it was a bowl of soup, thin chicken broth. They were usually content with café au lait, [...]
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Saintly Gas
Posted in books, brazil, food, tagged books, brazil, food on 22/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Fruit of the Saints
Posted in books, brazil, food, tagged books, brazil, food on 21/04/2009 | 1 Comment »
In Jorge Amado’s The War of the Saints, as in his other books, food is a constant presence. Food in all its types – cooked and raw, vegetable, meat and fruit. True to the heart and stomach of Brazil, food is also the underpinning of the great Carnival. As it says in the book, the [...]
