Comments on: Live and Let Die http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2005/04/14/live-and-let-die/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:12:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Administrator http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2005/04/14/live-and-let-die/#comment-13 Administrator Tue, 10 May 2005 18:07:52 +0000 http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/?p=23#comment-13 (comment from the old blog) 4D said... I must confess I have never read one of the Bond novels. I am of the generation that Bond equals high action movies of middling quality, but I can quite believe that the books are something else alltogether. (comment from the old blog)

4D said…
I must confess I have never read one of the Bond novels. I am of the generation that Bond equals high action movies of middling quality, but I can quite believe that the books are something else alltogether.

]]> By: Administrator http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2005/04/14/live-and-let-die/#comment-12 Administrator Tue, 10 May 2005 18:07:26 +0000 http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/?p=23#comment-12 (comment from the old blog) Leviathan said: It was Fleming taking a little shot at American cuisine. I love those little digs at the USA. Fleming does it with such style, he makes me, as an American, feel like a little-leaguer sitting on the bench beside the Red Sox. (comment from the old blog)

Leviathan said:

It was Fleming taking a little shot at American cuisine.

I love those little digs at the USA. Fleming does it with such style, he makes me, as an American, feel like a little-leaguer sitting on the bench beside the Red Sox.

]]> By: John D http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2005/04/14/live-and-let-die/#comment-11 John D Tue, 10 May 2005 17:33:04 +0000 http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/?p=23#comment-11 Personally I don't think Fleming was taking a poke at American cooking when he described the meal ordered through room service. Fleming appreciated both complex and simple cooking of quality. Just as he appreciated high quality scrambled eggs, he appreciated high quality soft-shell crabs and hamburgers, etc. I think he liked to identify high quality pleasures that happen to be unique to a certain place, country or culture, and described the pleasure that one could have from them. In Goldfinger he described the simple but delicious Miami specialty of stone crabs with lots of melted butter and a big tankard of cold, high quality beer.... I'm making myself hungry here, so I'm going to stop now and go out to get some good food..... Personally I don’t think Fleming was taking a poke at American cooking when he described the meal ordered through room service. Fleming appreciated both complex and simple cooking of quality. Just as he appreciated high quality scrambled eggs, he appreciated high quality soft-shell crabs and hamburgers, etc.

I think he liked to identify high quality pleasures that happen to be unique to a certain place, country or culture, and described the pleasure that one could have from them.

In Goldfinger he described the simple but delicious Miami specialty of stone crabs with lots of melted butter and a big tankard of cold, high quality beer…. I’m making myself hungry here, so I’m going to stop now and go out to get some good food…..

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