The Librarian and The Calcutec

A fine meal for two:

~ Vino ~
Aperitivo

~ Antipasti ~
Insalata di gamberetti alle fragole
Ostriche al vivo
Mortadella di fegato
Seppie al nero
Melanzane alla parmigiana
Wakasagi marinata

~ Primi ~
Spaghetti al pesto genovese
Tagliatelle alla casa
Maccheroni al sugo di pesce
Branzino al cartoccio

~ Contorni ~
Spinaci 
Risotto i funghi
Verdure cotte
Risotto al pomodoro

~ Dolce ~
Granita di uva
Crema fredda
Suffle al limone
Espresso


Information derived from Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World written by Haruki Murakami 

Welbeck's Superior Buttons of Birmingham

Quotes from Jonathan Strange, second magician in England:

"Oak trees can be befriended and will aid you against your enemies if they think your cause is just.  Birch woods are well known for providing doors in Faerie. Ash-trees will never cease to mourn until the Raven King comes home again."

[Though there were indeed spells that could move rain and sunshine about, like pieces on a chessboard, I would never employ them except in the direst need and I advise you to follow my example. English magic, had grown up upon English soil and had in a sense been nurtured by English rain. In meddling with English weather, we meddled with England, and in meddling with England we risked destroying the very foundations of English magic.]

"A magician might [kill a man by magic], but a gentleman never could."

(Quotes derived from the novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell written by Susanna Clarke)

The Red Book of Westmarch I

Favourite Excerpts from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

A guest from the Mountains of the Moon coveted "Eating pearly cakes of light snow flakes and drinking thin moonshine".


Perry the Winkle has a fulsome tea with the Lonely Troll: pikelets, buttered toast, jam, cream, cake, tea, cramsome bread, bannocks.


Wouldn't it be nice to sleep on a "heather bed with pillows of owlets down"?

Only on Thursdays the Troll bakes his bread

And only for Perry the Winkle's spread.