[Vwoolf] Woolf’s good food guide

Thu Apr 13 14:24:42 EDT 2023

Marie-Claire’s ref to Leonard reminded me that he was gently mocked by Clive Bell and Raymond Mortimer in an exchange in the NS&N about the relative merits of English hotel food vs. French …  Clive wrote:

“On my French tours never have I had a companion, no matter how patriotic or ascetic, who did not look forward with unconcealed, indeed with loudly expressed, pleasure to lunch. I have never known, nor ever heard of, anyone, except Mr. Woolf, who looked forward to lunch in an English inn.”

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Alice:

I'll have to read this piece too. One of my favorites on this topic is "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." (ROO).

Remember noticing that when the Wolves visited our area in Corrèze (Brive (!), Uzerche, etc., in SW France (now "Nouvelle Aquitaine") in the 30s - noted in D somewhere), she argued with Leonard on the quality of the pâté

in comparison with the pub's at Rodmell. If I remember correctly she preferred our local specialty recipe (I won't say anything about foie gras, etc. - shhht!), whilst L defended Rodmell pub's.

Of course she was absolutely right and Leonard totally wrong, aha aha!  🐒

Hope you enjoyed a good Easter - Happy Spring to all of you 😎

Marie-Claire Boisset-Pestourie 
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 7:17 PM Alice Lowe via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> > wrote:

My paper at the 2010 conference, published in the selected works from that year, was "A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage: Dining Well in Virginia Woolf's Life and Work. " From numerous passages in her letters and diaries as 

My paper at the 2010 conference, published in the selected works from that year, was "A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage: Dining Well in Virginia Woolf's Life and Work." From numerous passages in her letters and diaries as well as her novels, there is little doubt she relished & appreciated good food. Traveling in France with Vita, she describes the food in several letters to Leonard as well as in her diary. Read about: "the vastest most delicious meal I have ever eaten..." (L3:534) and "a first rate dinner thought out and presided over by a graceful young chef..." (D4:317).  

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 7:51 AM Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> > wrote:

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Epic snark!

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Making my way through my backlog of TLS issues, I thought the following letter from the January 13 2023 edition might be of interest to Woolfians on the list (and apologies if it has already been shared!): Woolf’s good food guide Reviewing 

Making my way through my backlog of TLS issues, I thought the following letter from the January 13 2023 edition might be of interest to Woolfians on the list (and apologies if it has already been shared!):

Woolf’s good food guide
Reviewing Diane Purkiss’s book on English food (December 23 & 30), Ysenda Maxtone Graham mentions the familiar passage in A Room of One’s Own contrasting the food served in a men’s college at Cambridge (King’s) and one for women (Newnham). It should be regarded as purely rhetorical, alas. The “counterpane of the whitest cream” over the men’s sole may or may not have tasted good, depending on how much flour there was in it; the meal at Newnham would certainly have tasted better (and there is nothing wrong with “beef with its attendant greens and potatoes”) had Virginia Woolf arrived on time for it. Katherine Duncan-Jones, whose mother, Elsie, arranged the meal specially for Woolf at Newnham, told me that she was in fact extravagantly late (having been fascinated by the men’s conversation, perhaps) and the carefully prepared meal was consequently ruined. In any case there is reason to doubt Woolf’s ability to recognize good food. The fuss about Mrs Ramsay’s daube in To the Lighthouse is hardly reassuring, and it is noticeable that in writing of Nelly Boxall, her own cook, Woolf hardly ever in her diaries mentions what comes to table. It’s probable that she wasn’t very interested.

Martin Dodsworth
Brill, Buckinghamshire

Dr Peter Adkins 

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