Gertrude stein quotes about food
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Food / Gertrude Stein (Penguin Modern: 08)
Published February 22nd 2018 by Penguin Classics
Author: Gertrude Stein
Format: Paperback (112mm x 161mm x 6mm)
Genre: Poetry, experimental, food
Pages: 55
Star rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Opening line:
“In the inside there is sleeping, in the outside there is reddening, in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
Synopsis (from Penguin):
Sadder than salad.
From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
My review
The above opening line is under the piece about ‘Roastbeef’. Anyone reading it on its own may not immediatly associate the words as being about something like roastbeef, but under that title it makes complete sense. This book is kind of non-sensical in a way that makes sense. Food is looked at from a whole different perspective, sometimes with long extracts, and other times with just a few sentences.
To begin with, I didn’t always know what I was reading, because there is a ‘nonsense’ feel to the style of writing. It’s different to, say, Eat Up! (which I’m also reading) which is a food memoir
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THE BOOK ..........................- TENDER BUTTONS
THE SUBBOOK ...................- FOOD
THE SUBPOEM ...................- Breakfast
WORD COUNT (Total)……...- 840
STANZA(S)............................- 22
—Stanzas 1-9 312
THE LEADER........................- THE STEINY ROAD POET
CO-LLABORATORS.............- MODPO STUDENTS/THE BUTTONS
“Breakfast.” is the third subpoem of Tender Buttons section 2 Food. Unlike “Roastbeef.” and “Mutton”, “Breakfast.” is not a food but a time of day to eat. While stanza 14 of “Breakfast.” (this stanza will be addressed i
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