The luncheon suggestion for today from 365 Luncheon Dishes (from 1902) is Cheese Polenta.
Here is a truly beautiful day from
Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame, the wonderful author of the wonderful
Wind in the Willows! It even wins my top award...
After many a mile in sun and wind — maybe rain — you reach at last, with the folding star, your destined rustic inn. There, in its homely, comfortable strangeness, after unnumbered chops with country ale, the hard facts of life begin to swim in a golden mist. You are isled from accustomed cares and worries — you are set in a peculiar nook of rest. Then old failures seem partial successes, then old jokes renew their youth and flavour. To-morrow you shall begin life again: shall write your book, make your fortune, do anything; meanwhile you sit, and the jolly world swings round, and you seem to hear it circle to the music of the spheres. What pipe was ever thus beatifying in effect? You are aching all over, and enjoying it ; and the scent of the limes drifts in through the window. This is undoubtedly the best and greatest country in the world; and none but good fellows abide in it.
