Take time out of your festive schedule to make a beef stew that will reward you with enough flavour to inspire a masterpiece of modernism
By Kate Young for The Little Library Café, part of the Guardian Books Network
... an exquisite scent of olives and oil and juice rose from the great brown dish as Marthe, with a little flourish, took the cover off. The cook had spent three days over that dish. And she must take great care, Mrs Ramsay thought, diving into the soft mass, to choose a specially tender piece for William Bankes. And she peered into the dish, with its shiny walls and its confusion of savoury brown and yellow meats and its bay leaves and its wine ...
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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