tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36718436.post7814449916291563320..comments2023-08-22T22:14:15.758-07:00Comments on Fromage du Mois: Cheese in LiteratureGoudacrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12625058991439252594noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36718436.post-18773868417159689142012-03-15T07:43:21.512-07:002012-03-15T07:43:21.512-07:00Indeed, how can one forget Treasure Island.
As ...Indeed, how can one forget Treasure Island. <br /><br />As for the David and Goliath reference, I had to look back to find the text. In the Book of Samuel, Prophets, Old Testament, there is a passage about cheese. David is about to go visit his rothers in battle. Samuel 17:17-25: "Then Jesse said to David his son, 'Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers. Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them."Ricky Ricottahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00539458971957599424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36718436.post-34266870309925071322012-03-14T23:50:05.478-07:002012-03-14T23:50:05.478-07:00So what about the words of the marooned pirate in ...So what about the words of the marooned pirate in R L Stevenson's Treasure Island:<br /><br />But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were."<br /><br />Or that the Bible tells us that David was only on the scene to fight Goliath becasue he'd been ordered to deliver cheese to the Israelite army?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36718436.post-66407821806225241632007-11-17T06:00:00.000-08:002007-11-17T06:00:00.000-08:00I, too, am looking for the use of cheese in litera...I, too, am looking for the use of cheese in literature. I'm teaching Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." In at least two passages he makes reference to the "sacred cheese." So I'm researching the use of cheese as something sacred. <BR/>I found an ancient Greek story of space travelers who were swallowed by a whale and ended up in a sacred lake of milk and came to rest on the isle of cheese which is near paradise. <BR/>Also, cheese was used as currency in several European countries in the 12-16 centuries.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05842211416234180559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36718436.post-79153460518939694472007-09-09T15:44:00.000-07:002007-09-09T15:44:00.000-07:00This is s wonderful tale of priorities. How appro...This is s wonderful tale of priorities. How approrpiate indeed to favor a collection of tasty cheese over a piece of non-functioning metal. While I don't remember precisely, my sense is that cheese is involved in some capacity in one of the opening scenes of Moby Dick. When Ishmael begins to tell the tale of his arrival on the coast of Massachusetts, in the frigidness of a late New England winter, he takes a meal or two that I believe involves hunks of cheese, soup, and bread. Can anyone back me up on this?Ricky Ricottahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00539458971957599424noreply@blogger.com