Random Bloomers Enjoy Cotes de Beaune Villages and Gorgonzola Sandwiches

RANDOM BLOOMERS JOIN LESLIE FOR A READING.


We had a great bit of fun in the Vintry yesterday celebrating Bloomsday. This was a first for us but seeing as Joyce was born just down the road in Brighton Sq. we decided join in the fun that is Bloomsday . We did no pre-publicity yet Joyce fans appeared like magic from nowhere and we all  had a great laugh. People often regard Ulysses as high brow  even posh but based on the number of raucous readings that took place outside the shop I can assure you it is anything but. Like the  Burgundy that we  chose to serve, a Louis Latour  Beaune 2007....it is simple,light and above all fun but with several layers which you can choose to merely enjoy or  to over analyse.

 Leslie(Leopold) Williams does a reading.

Someone forgot the  baby!

Blooms Burgundy not logwood

Ulysses, James Joyce's novel is set in Dublin on June 16^th, 1904

 

 

In chapter eight, Leopold Bloom’s lunch, was a Gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of red burgundy at Davy Byrne’s pub in Duke Street

‘Mr Bloom ate his strips of sandwich, fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust, pungent mustard, the feety savour of green cheese. Sips of his wine soothed his palate. Not logwood that. Tastes fuller this weather with the chill off.’

The reference to logwood refers to the colour of the  Burgundy wine and is the equivalent to the modern use of the word plonk.The hard, brownish-red wood of this tropical tree yields a dye  used in dyeing fabrics. In 1904  the alleged use of this dye to colour spurious or adulterated wine was frequent, and so the usage of the term  logwood  to describe dodgy wine came into the vocabulary of that time.

So toast James Joyce tomorrow with something tasty not logwood.
 Evelyn
The Vintry

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