Les Fleurs du Mal

Selected quotes from the works of Charles Baudelaire

~ The misfit child grows drunk on sunny air.

~ Twittering troupe of sickly queens.

~ The sterile woman's frigid majesty.

~ A sun with heatless beams.

~ Dim the brilliance of those soulless eyes.

~ Lady of unstudied grace.

~ To choose a shifting fake.

~ Canvas of our souls.

~ Elastic mane of raven hues.



The Fleeting Realm of Scent

Amusing passages and descriptions found in Perfume, The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind


~ Pungently sweet

~ Rank lion

~ Foundlings

~ Milk and cheesy wool

~ A child with the pox smells like horse manure, one with scarlet fever [smells] like old apples and a consumptive child smells like onions

~ Sentimental cosiness

~ Oyster grey, creamy opal white

~ Greedy little nose

~ Cosy veil of thought

~ Merciless sense of order and justice

~ Uncensorious slap

~ As tough as resistant bacterium

~ His soul required nothing

~ Grotesque incongruities

~ Huge vocabulary of odours

~ Thick gruel of the streets

~ Humbled contentment

~ Disgustingly good

~ Efflorescent, gaseous state

~ Olfactory peace

~ Mountain of solitude

~ Sacred awe

~ Blessedly wonderful

~ Delicious horror

~ Repulsive aperitif

~ Scent-logged
 

RMS Titanic

First Class Breakfast Menu 
11 April 1912

Baked Apples, Fresh Fruit, Stewed Prunes
 
Quaker Oats, Boiled Hominy, Puffed Rice
 
Fresh Herrings, Findon Haddock, Smoked Salmon
 
Grilled Mutton Kidneys & Bacon
Grilled Ham, Grilled Sausage
 
Lamb Collops, Vegetable Stew
 
Fried, Shirred, poached & Boiled Eggs
 
Plain & Tomato Omelettes to order
Sirloin Steak & Mutton Chops to order
 
Mashed, Saute, & Jacket Potatoes
 
Cold Meat
 
Vienna & Graham Rolls
Soda & Sultana Scones, Corn Bread
Buckwheat Cakes
 
Blackcurrant Conserve, Narbonne Honey
Oxford Marmalade
 
Watercress


Second Class Luncheon Menu
12 April 1912

Pea Soup

Spaghetti au Gratin

Corned Beef with Vegetable Dumplings

Roast Mutton with Baked Jacket Potatoes

Roast Beef, Sausage, Ox Tongue with Pickles and Salad
Tapioca Pudding
Apple Tart
Fresh Fruit

Cheese, Biscuits

Coffee


First Class Dinner Menu
14 April 1912

Canapes a l'Amiral
Oysters a la Russe


#Consomme Olga
#Cream of Barley Soup

#Poached Salmon with Mousseline Sauce

#Filet Mignons Lili
#Chicken Lyonnaise
#Vegetable Marrow Farci

Lamb with Mint Sauce
Calvados-Glazed Roast Duckling with Applesauce
Roast Sirloin of Beef Forestiere
Chateau Potatoes
Minted Green Pea Timbales
Creamed Carrots
Boiled Rice
Parmentier and Boiled New Potatoes

#Punch Romaine

#Roasted Squab on Wilted Cress

#Asparagus Salad with Champagne-Saffron Viaigrette

Pate de Foie Gras
Celery

#Waldorf Pudding
#Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly
#Chocolate Painted Eclairs with French Vanilla Cream
#French Vanilla Ice Cream

Assorted fresh fruits and cheeses

Coffee, cigars 


# For an abbreviated modern day re-creation #
 

First Class Supper Menu

Quail Eggs in Aspic with Caviar

Spring Pea Soup

Lobster Thermidor with Duchess Potatoes

Tournedos with Morels on a Bed of Braised Cabbage

Rose Water and Mint Sorbet

Quails with Cherries

Spring Asparagus Hollandaise

Fresh Fruit Salad

Orange Surprise


Second Class Dinner Menu
14 April 1912

Consomme with Tapioca

Baked Haddock with Sharp Sauce
Curried Chicken and Rice
Lamb with Mint Sauce
Roast Turkey with Savory Cranberry Sauce
Turnip Puree
Green Peas
Boiled Rice
Boiled and Roast Potatoes

Plum Pudding with Sweet Sauce
Wine Jelly
Coconut Sandwich
American Ice Cream
Assorted Nuts
Fresh Fruit
Cheese, Biscuits

Coffee


Third Class Breakfast Menu
12 April 1912

Quaker Oats and Milk

Smoked Herrings

Beefsteak and Onions

Jacket Potatoes

Fresh Bread and Butter

Marmalade, Swedish Bread


Tea and Coffee


Third Class Dinner Menu
12 April 1912

Vegetable Soup

Roasted Pork with Sage and Pearl Onions
Green Peas
Boiled Potatoes

Plum Pudding with Sweet Sauce

Cabin Biscuits
Oranges


Third Class Tea Menu
12 April 1912

Ragout of Beef with Potatoes and Pickles

Currant Buns
Fresh Bread and Butter

Apricots

Tea


Third Class Supper

Cabin Biscuits and Cheese

Gruel

Coffee





~ Information taken from the Last Dinner on the Titanic ~