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This list of all the foodstuffs in Ulysses was published in The Nabokov Paper edited by Kate Briggs & Lucrezia Russo in 2013. I wrote it in response to Nabokov's question:

Ulysses  is a fat book of more than two hundred and sixty thousand words; it is a rich book      with a vocabulary of about thirty thousand words. Discuss some of them


marmalade.
morning rashers
A cored apple,
brown sugar,
fried grease
the fry
Bread,
butter,
honey.
sugar?
milk.
the loaf
honey
a lemon
Sandycove milk.
the milk.
The sugar
the damned eggs.
the fry
thick slices from the loaf
a thick slice of bread,
the loaf:
fry
-The milk,
rich white milk,
milk,
milk
a crust thickly buttered on both sides,
the thick rich milk.
honey
a slice of the loaf.
his salt bread.
jam, 
her clove of orange. 
a rasher fried with a herring? 
warm milk 
lait chaud
chaussons of pastry, 
flan breton.
spiced beans
fromage
a cheese
apple dumplings,
milkoozing fruits, 
thick giblet soup, 
nutty gizzards,
a stuffed roast heart,
liver slices fried with crustcrumbs,
fried hencod’s roes.
grilled mutton kidneys
Kidneys
Another slice of bread and butter:
Ham and eggs, 
eggs
a mutton kidney at Buckley’s. Fried with butter, a shake of pepper.
a pork kidney
Thin bread and butter
Potato 
yesterday’s loaves turnovers crisp crowns hot.
fennel,
ginger, 
the hanks of sausages,  
polonies, black and white.
The shiny links packed with forcemeat
cooked spicy pig’s blood.
A kidney oozed bloodgouts 
sausages.
the sausages
meat
prime sausages
Prime sausage 
olives, 
oranges,
almonds
or citrons.
Olives
oranges
Olives
Oranges
Citrons
cool waxenfruit,
sizzling butter. 
the lump of butter 
the kidney
the sizzling butter sauce.
Pepper.
the kidney 
Bread and butter,
sugar,
her cream.
a slice of bread
The sluggish cream 
the sugar.
-The kidney!
the kidney
the scanty brown gravy
a slice of the loaf.
the toothsome pliant meat.
dies of bread,
the gravy
another die of bread  
the gravy
mummy’s lovely box of creams
her cakes
other dies of bread in the gravy
piece after piece of kidney.
Scarlet runners. 
peas
Lettuce.
fresh greens
cabbage. 
offal 
her sausages? 
Plumtree’s Potted Meat? 
fruit, 
olives,
those mazzoth:
that sort of bread:
unleavened shewbread.
bread of angels 
an herb 
crustcrumbs 
Crumbs?
plums 
cakes and fruit.
Simnel cakes
cakes for the dead.
Dog-biscuits.
frilled beefsteaks 
A juicy pear 
good Irish stew. 
Ordinary meat; 
cheese? 
milk.
raw white turnips. 
the crescent of water biscuit 
the biscuit
the soup 
the brawn and the bread 
the bread
plums 
the plums
Pineapple rock, 
lemon platt,
butter scotch.
scoopfulls of creams
Lozenge and comfit
codfish 
The Malaga raisins 
Crossbuns.
your own bread and butter.
Potatoes and marge,
marge and potatoes.
that stale cake 
Two apples
the glazed apples
two banbury cakes
fishy flesh
swanmeat. 
chestnut meal
fish
beef. 
a chunk of bread
bread and skilly.
best butter
lard
dripping.
his soup 
Rabbit pie
lap of mutton 
the Chutney sauce
good pastry, 
butter,
best flour,
Demerara sugar,
grapes 
Pungent mockturtle oxtail mulligatawny. 
Flakes of pastry
sugary flour
Rhubarb tart with liberal fillings, rich fruit interior.
Mayonnaise 
the plums
custard.
Saffron bun 
milk
one lump of sugar 
fat soup 
pudding
soup.
Gammon and spinach. 
meat 
Michaelmas goose.
thyme
those apricots,
peaches.
bread and onions. 
tinned salmon 
liver and bacon
egg 
Eating orangepeels 
weggebobbles and fruit.
a beefsteak.
nutsteak?
rumpsteak.
Irish stew
rich fruits, 
pungent meatjuice, 
slop of greens.
more bread
gurgling soup 
halfmasticated gristle:
Chump chop from the grill.
-Roast beef and cabbage.
-One stew.
stewgravy with sopping sippets of bread.
One corned and cabbage.
a knifeful of cabbage
Roast and mashed here. 
Soup 
garlic,
onions,
mushrooms,
truffles.
Bubble and squeak.
that brisket
Sardines 
Sandwich?
Ham
Potted meats.
Plumtree’s potted meat?
Dignam’s potted meat.
with lemon and rice.
Like pickled pork.
Cauls mouldy tripes
the meat.
meat and milk
Christmas turkeys and geese
Cheese
Mighty cheese.
a cheese sandwich?
a few olives
A nice salad,
a cucumber.
Pure olive oil.
that cutlet with a sprig of parsley.
one Spanish onion.
Devilled crab.
A cheese sandwich, 
Gorgonzola,
his sandwich
-Mustard,
mustard
duck eggs 
Herring’s
parsnips.
pepper
strips of sandwich,
fresh clean bread, with relish
pungent mustard
green cheese.
softened rolled pith of bread mustard 
mawkish cheese.
sardines,
gaudy lobsters’ claws.
periwinkles with a pin,
snails
berries.
Tempting fruit.
Ice cones.
Cream.
oysters?
Fizz and Red bank oysters.
oyster old fish
oysters.
Jugged hare.
eggs fifty years old,
rock oil and flour  
raw pastry
oysters
Caviare.
Royal sturgeon.
venisons of the forest
Combustible duck.
Curly cabbage à la duchesse de Parme.
broth.
Edward’s desiccated soup.
Geese stuffed silly
Lobsters boiled alive
some ptarmigan.
filleted lemon sole,
fish,
grapes
seedcake 
currants.
boiled mutton,
carrots and turnips,
a jar of cream 
Plovers on toast.
cream
bacon
spinach 
soup 
Potato. 
butter 
their sausages 
peck of pickled pepper. 
Good bacon: 
Hot herringpies, 
honeysauces,
sugar of roses
marchpane,
gooseberried pigeons,
ringocandies.
malt 
orts and offals. 
melon 
baconflitches and ample cools of butter. 
pig’s puddings, white and black and red, 
yellow thick soup 
crumbs.
big chunks of bread
the yellow soup
yellow soup
fat pears
ripe shamefaced peaches.
the fruit
fruits,
young juicy crinkled and plump red tomatoes,
strawberries,
cold joints galore 
and mince pies . . .
bun 
garlic 
cockles 
some scones and butter 
some cakes as well.
damn bad cakes 
two lumps of sugar
whipped cream
a steaming scone
butter
the creamy cone
real irish cream 
porksteaks 
crumbs of the cottage fruit cake 
the porksteaks 
dry bread 
milk 
figs 
the sweets. 
The sweets 
Liver and bacon. 
Steak and kidney pie. 
stuffed savoury puff 
nutty gizzards, 
fried cods’ roes
steak and kidney 
liver gravy 
mashed mashed potatoes 
Graham Lemon’s pineapple rock 
Steak,
kidney,
liver,
meat
meat
liverless bacon
pounded bread,
Kidney pie.
Sweets
comfits, 
Jenny Lind soup: stock, sage, raw eggs, half pint of cream.
bread 
Buttered toast. 
a bier of bread 
last sardine of summer 
pig’s cheek and cabbage 
sugars. 
sugar, 
silvery fishes, 
crans of herrings,
drafts of eels,
codlings,
creels of fingerlings,
flaskets of cauliflowers,
floats of spinach,
pineapple chunks,
Rangoon beans,
strikes of tomatoes,
drums of figs,
drills of Swedes,
spherical potatoes 
tallies of iridescent kale,
York and Savoy,
trays of onions,
punnets of mushrooms
custard marrows
fat vetches
bere and rape
red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples
chips of strawberries
sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious,
strawberries fit for princes
raspberries from their canes. 
superabundance of milk 
butts of butter
rennets of cheese
crannocks of corn
oblong eggs, 
a quart of buttermilk 
meat 
rashers and eggs, 
fried steak and onions,
hot breakfast rolls 
oranges 
a few old dry buns, 
her egg 
her fresh egg. 
bread 
the milk in the cocoanut 
olives 
corned beef 
biscuit 
cauliflower. 
mango 
a squab pigeon pasty, 
some collops of venison,
a saddle of veal,
widgeon with crisp hog’s bacon,
a boar’s head with pistachios,
a bason of jolly custard, 
a medlar tansy
Pistachios!  
the scatty heel of the loaf of brown breadwith golden syrup on. 
Butter and cream? 
lemon 
Her griddlecakes 
queen Ann’s pudding of delightful creaminess 
selfraising flour
sugar
the white of eggs
gingerbread 
jaspberry ram 
stewed cockles and lettuce 
Lazenby’s salad dressing 
bread 
a pinch of salt.
milk 
nicey bread and milky 
an onion. 
sour milk and tainted curds. 
strawberries and cream. 
Potted herrings gone stale
treacle. 
Celery sauce.
Almonds
Lemons
Green apples. 
Jerusalem artichokes, 
the plums
Winkle: cockles and periwinkles. 
Bread 
Salt 
the herrings.
sodabread and butter 
fried mutton chops with catsup 
meat.
salt
Oxtail
milk 
bitter milk: 
the pea.  
doughballs 
their bully beef,
good fish
some salty sprats
savory tubercles 
fish and coneys 
a blade of mace 
a pod or two of capsicum chillies. 
those loaves and fishes
a crust
eatable flesh of a calf
beef,
vegetables,
cool ardent fruit. 
her beefsteaks, 
milk, 
milk
milk
milk,
milk
milk
thick rich bonnyclaber. 
beef, 
Beerbeef 
couple of cookies 
a loaf 
the loaf 
bread
bread?
pork
a lukewarm pig’s crubeen,
a cold sheep’s trotter,
sprinkled with whole pepper.
sweets  
a shrivelled potato 
a lemon 
full of polonies, 
kippered herrings, 
Findon haddies 
spillspilling gravy) 
the crubeen    
oyster! 
some spinach. 
egg and potato 
the trotter)
Spanish onions
an orange citron
a pork kidney.)
loaves and fishes,
free cowbones for soup,
butter scotch,
pineapple rock,
porringers of toad in the hole,
dairyfed pork sausages,
curdled milk 
a raw turnip  
condensed milk
cabbage,
stale bread,
sheeps’ tails,
odd pieces of fat.)
cold dried grocer’s peas.
Beer beef 
a huge crayfish 
new bread with fennygreek 
Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg. 
his white cabbage
the chocolate
French lozenges? 
chocolate.) 
chocolate) 
a prince’s liver and kidney 
truffles 
Matterson’s fat ham rashers 
crisp crackling 
sucking pig with rice and lemon or currant sauce. 
gingerbread 
Mackerel! 
A raw onion 
currants.) 
grapes, 
Onions. 
haddock. 
that potato,
the potato
lovely peaches!
mouthfuls of strawberries and cream.
a torrent of mutton broth
carrots,
barley,
onions,
turnips,
potatoes.)
Yorkshire relish
eggs,
potatoes,
codfish,
oignons.
orange?
two eggs
Eggs
a further egg.
liver
your soup,
that bun.
the clotted sugar
chip potato
garlic
-The biscuits
pork
butter and eggs,
best meat
Irish bacon?
eggflip
grapes
bacon,
salt ling and butter,
a phial of aromatic violet comfits.pepper,
table salt,
four conglomerated black olives
Plumtree’s potted meat,
one Jersey pear,
cocoa,
the best crystallised lump sugar,
two onions,
cream,
soured adulterated milk,
semi-solidified curds,
two cloves,
a slice of fresh ribsteak.
cocoa
the viscous cream
the creature cocoa.
arithmetical gelatine lozenges,
zoological biscuits,
Plums?
sugar plus cream plus cocoa,
milk.
an Easter egg
some crumbs,
some flakes of potted meat,
a couple of eggs
my potatoes
the oysters
potted meat
the butter
the vegetables
boiling old stew
boiling soup
the soup
that chicken
a cottage cake
beeftea
chickensoup
those eggs
oranges
the Banana
the biscuits
that pork chop
eggs
Findon haddy
hot buttered toast
egg
that lovely fresh plaice
fish
blancmange
black currant jam
pots of mixed plum and apple
eels 
cod
a nice piece of cod
loin chops
leg beef
rib steak
scrag of mutton
calfs pluck
some cold veal and ham mixed sandwiches
Sweets
gruel
a bit of toast
the watercress
a few olives
the vegetables
cabbages
tomatoes
splendid fruits
a big juicy pear
eggs
nice cream
plum
apple
milk
fairy cakes
cherries
the pinky sugar





Tony Blair recently wrote an essay on the current situation in the middle East. Here is my 'found poem' from that essay.

Iraq, Syria and the Middle East 

civil war
attendant disintegration
predictable
malign effect
mortal danger
under threat

support
beating back
insurgency 
resolution
the past decade
root causes

inevitable
commentary
this challenge
implying
peace
made forcefully

a beaten force
massive challenges
prospect
pose a threat
despite the bloodshed
within its own borders

very real
sectarianism
snuffed out
cohesive
alienation
repulse the attack

a major proximate cause
is willful
battle-hardened
shifted focus
different manifestations
gain experience

these events
the original decision
this debate
the counterfactual
the arguments
in turn

the casus belli
without any detection
expertise
resulted in
refrained from
at least as likely

stable
meted out
stability
put into the equation
the revolution
an oasis of calm

the most likely scenario
engulfed by
the hypothesis
the most likely response
retain power
by proxy

bizarre
the cauldron
today
to claim
the removal
a crisis

the right policy
the future
learn properly
the lessons
uprisings
onwards

the reality
agonising
protracted transition
to liberate
the notion
inaction

bad systems
bad abuse
poor governance
a failure
toxic
unstable matrix of factors

these factors interrelate
the true lesson
the focal point
the regime changes
the tensions
the result is the mess

analysing properly
absolutely vital
severe challenge
the debate
whatever
a big challenge

towards regime change
intervention
very tough
regime to change
racked by instability
the worst state of all

act
discern
action
on the basis
a vast scale
left in power

make sense
with humility
this issue
tough
the decisions
its dynamics

appreciate
this situation
complex
struggle
painless solution
partial intervention

default position
this long transition
at its simplest
for a reason
that reason
the ideology

this struggle
the fate of
the future
the direction
the world over
this region

no
policy
based on
in part
our struggle
or not

future threat
a real risk
a haven
this conflagration
hostile to involvement
action

the immediate challenge
all options
insist on
the way
responsibility
politics

elements
outright victory
targeted
coordination
however unpalatable
the alternative is worse

acting 
alone
the challenge
the region
the wider world
a plan

identify
the fight
the starkness
that statement
this issue
the battle

history
layers of complexity
bad governance
a baleful role
exacerbating the challenges
tougher to resolve

unite
this analysis
critical new element
the region
the battle
wage it

repressive systems
the past
neither right nor feasible
change
to help change
the chaos

naive
uprisings
evolution
revolution
at the time
precisely

evolution
steady progress
towards change
the reform process
the full weight
to do so

revolution
to be clear
not
systems
based on
politics

countered hard
with force
responses
short of that
wherever
terror

longer term
a concerted effort
formal and informal
dialogue
all nations
respectful of difference

a focal point
the same challenge
for the avoidance of doubt
neither minimising
over issues like
a weakening of our position

the challenge
further afield
faces it
the ghastly events
faces it
too

point
win
the fight
accept
the nature
it

a much bigger picture
earlier decisions
the decisions now
pretty ugly
into the abyss

act now

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