JOST A MON

The idle ramblings of a Jack of some trades, Master of none

Nov 30, 2010

A Last Lunch?

Towards the end of his life, Paul Gauguin was syphilitic, doped up on morphia, and a publisher of prurient gossip in Papeete. None of this stopped him from living the good life. In Waldemar Januszczak's TV biography of the great artist, Gauguin - The Full Story, we learn Gauguin and his journo cronies would gather for lunch every Saturday, and persuade their Tahitian women to get drunk and strip. Here's a hand-made menu by Gauguin for one of these lunches:
Saucisson d'Arles
Pâté de foie gras
Jambon d' York
Salade assortie
Fromage de Hollande
Omelette aux Confitures

2 comments:

km said...

Gauguin was an original badass.

Fëanor said...

But not Le Guin, you are saying.

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