But do you also love food? This post is for you. Meanwhile, let your brain marinate in something delicious and gentle, with some of my favorite foods and descriptions from the Tales of Redwall.You’re on this site because you love reading, which has been thoroughly established.
This means you can bring these iconic feasts to life-possibly even bring a little Eulalia to your Thanksgiving-and there’s a Redwall Feast Bot Twitter account listing out dishes daily. It’s a meditation on what makes life delicious, and these little love letters to simple delights eventually became an illustrated Redwall cookbook. In Mariel of Redwall, for example, our heroes are preparing for battle in the story’s crescendo, about three-quarters of the way through the book, but before the action starts we have three pages of visiting warriors ruminating the food they’ve encountered: Turnip-potato-beetroot pie, cold fizzy strawberry cordial, damson shortcrust and cream, cowslip and parsley liquor, brown ale, cheese and mushroom pasties, and nutbread cake iced with clover honey. As much as you expected heroic mice and a tale of adventure, you also expected feasts, especially to celebrate the triumph of good.īrian Jacques made food a character in these books as well as a ritual of familiarity or comfort or victory.
Jacques made food a character in these books as well as a ritual of familiarity or comfort or victory.
This particular mantra of meals comes from the Brian Jacques Redwall series books I loved as a kid, a 22-novel world revolving around Redwall Abbey, its charming, medieval woodland characters, their adventures, and everything they ate along the way. Sometimes when I’m trying to trick my brain into calming down, I think about comfort foods: Toasted cheese on oatcakes honey and blackberry pie shrimp and hotroot soup almond bread, warm and fresh from the ovens, spread with clover butter. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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