Blaise Cendrars "Menus"
The Daily Poem
Goldberry Studios
4.6 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today’s poem is by Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961),[1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Monday, September 18, 2023. |
| 0:10.7 | Today's poem is by the French poet Blaise Kendrars, and it's called Menus. |
| 0:18.0 | I'll read it once, offer a few comments, then read it one more time. |
| 0:24.8 | Menus |
| 0:25.2 | 1. Truffled Green Turtle Liver. Lobster Mexican. Florida pheasant. |
| 0:34.2 | Iguana with Caribbean sauce. gumbo and palmetto. |
| 0:38.3 | 2. Red River salmon, Canadian bear ham, roast beef from the meadows of Minnesota, smoked eel, |
| 0:48.3 | San Francisco tomatoes, pale ale and California wine. |
| 0:53.3 | 3. Winnipeg salmon, Scottish leg of lamb, |
| 0:58.9 | Royal Canadian apples, old French wines. |
| 1:03.8 | 4. Cancall oysters, lobster salad, celery hearts, |
| 1:09.5 | French snails vanillaed and sugar kentucky fried chicken desserts coffee canadian club whiskey |
| 1:17.4 | five pickled shark fins stillborn dog and honey rice wine with violets cream of silkworm cocoon, salted earthworms and |
| 1:30.4 | kava liqueur, seaweed jam. |
| 1:35.0 | 6. |
| 1:37.2 | Canned beef from Chicago and German delicatessen, crayfish, pineapples, guavas, bloquots, coconuts, mangoes, custard, apple, baked breadfruit. |
| 1:52.0 | 7. Turtle soup, fried oysters, truffled bear paws Lobster Java 8 |
| 2:02.1 | River crab and Pimento |
| 2:05.0 | stew |
| 2:05.5 | suckling pig ringed with fried bananas |
| 2:08.8 | hedgehog |
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