My Lips Stick Out In A Bikini

cup of English cream and prunes

Then there were the plums with cream. And if someone contends that the plums, though softened by the cream, are uncharitable vegetable (fruit are not), fibrosis of the heart as a miser, and exude a fluid such as flowing in the veins of the damage which for eighty years have been deprived of wine and warm without being given to the poor, should reflect that there are people whose charity embraces even the prune.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own .

The fictional essay of Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own born from the restructuring of two conferences held in 1928 in two College women. The same author notes in self-criticism of 1929 defines it as a job with a lot of opinions in a kind of condensed red jelly.

The themes are "women and writing, the importance for women to have economic independence, 500 pounds a year and a own room where you can write and give to their word artistic vocation. The invitation to write because women do not forget, however, as Coleridge argued, that a great mind is androgynous, because only when the merger takes place the male-female becomes fertile and creative mind.

The passage I quoted is from the first chapter, Virginia Woolf compares two meals in a hypothetical College male and one female. Lunch in the College featuring the male, a refined cuisine and a relaxed atmosphere and stimulating conversation. While dinner in College women is characterized by the frugality of the plates, precisely as dessert plums sweetened cream, and very stimulating atmosphere to start a conversation. The comparison of the two meals following reflection of the author that I have chosen as a sort of signature to the blog, which reflects what I think of food as a social vehicle and binder:

So how is it structured the human being, heart, the body and brain are mixed, and not locked up in insulated containers - as no doubt will be in a million years - and a good dinner is very important for a good conversation. You can not think well, love well, sleep well, if you have not dined well.

inspired by the "symbolic " plums sweetened cream of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf to present the contest interesting COOK THE BOOK Federica In the past life I was a tomato required to prepare a recipe that somehow linked to a book that we liked. The essay by Virginia Woolf is surely to be counted in my luggage. I think it's still relevant text, to read and be read to the younger generation ...

For the contest I thought of a bowl of sweetened creme anglaise from prunes and cooled by mint.

Ingredients (for about 5 cups)

500 g of milk

5 egg yolks 180 g sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

15 prunes

some mint leaves

sugar

Preparation:

Boil the milk with the vanilla in a pot of thick bottom steel. Meanwhile Beat egg yolks and sugar with a whisk, once obtained a homogeneous mixture is poured into the pan with the milk and turn with a wooden spoon until the cream thickens. Will be ready when the spoon will remain attached to a thin layer of cream.

Allow to cool, when cold pour it into cups combine prunes, garnish with mint leaves and sprinkle with a little icing sugar.