An Unexpected Barbecue

[mrissa]

I think if Middle-Earth had been written by an American, we might have gotten "An Unexpected Barbecue" and "A Long-Expected Barbecue" instead.

Anyway. Mine was not unexpected in its existence so much as in its location, but moving it here was considered far better than cancellation, I think by all parties, and so there you have that.

I may live on porphyrin's pears and gorgonzola cheese and whatever nuts we have left in the pantry and possibly tiny shreds of prosciutto for as long as it holds out. I used most of the prosciutto already and all of the walnuts, and it was totally worth it. They are small lumpy pears, not the kind you get in supermarkets, and they are so lovely all the way through, you just slice them open and cut the middle out and stuff it with cheese and nuts and...so fine, so very fine.

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That makes me wonder what the Great American Fantasy Novel would look like, and whether anyone's already written it -- by which I mean a book as thoroughly steeped in American-ness as LotR (the Shire bits particularly) is steeped in Englishness.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Several people have claimed to be doing it, but I think mostly it's the sort of thing where if you have to claim to be doing it, you're probably failing.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Sean Stewart's written the first third of it many times.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're right.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Heh. :-)

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I think it's a western and that it's probably already been written. I'm not nominating Lonesome Dove or Gone with the Wind, though. Neither contain enough singing about sausages. Or wizards.

Moby Dick is pretty dang crazy American.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, but I really don't think the Fantasy part of that question was optional. And I have not really felt like the fantasy westerns I've read have managed to go from being self-conscious about being Really Really American to being so steeped in it that they don't entirely notice.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Well-put. "Not entirely noticing" is very much the last part of the steeping, I think.