OP: Rather Special & Strangely Popular: A Milk Toast Exemplary (2010)
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Edizioni Scusa, Northampton, MA, 2010. Paperback. Fine. Signed limited edition.
Coming upon Molly Keane’s description of milk toast as “rather special” and “strangely popular,” John Thorne, naturally, is inspired by someone else’s exaltation of something, seemingly, ordinary and, possibly, unappetizing. Rather than casting off Keane as “deluded,” he wonders if, “she was onto something that [he] was unaccountably missing.”
Thorne’s inquisitiveness takes him down the path of finding the origins and evolution of this odd dish most associated with babies and the convalescent. It is an example of what delights await us when ignorance invites curiosity instead of animosity or disregard.
This copy is hand-numbered 13 in a limited printing of 100. 4.25” x 5.5”. It is signed and inscribed to fellow food writer Colman Andrews.
