Onion Tart à la Geoffrey Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Crick, Mark.

Title
Onion Tart à la Geoffrey Chaucer.

Published
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of Literature in 17 Recipes (London: Granta, 2005), pp. 89-92.

Physical Description
132 pp.; color illus.

Description
Presents a soup recipe, posed as a conversation in modern iambic pentameter between Chaucer's Host and the "Exciseman of London," who describes the preparation of the soup. Includes a color plate of a faux stained glass medallion of Chaucer as a cook. The text is reprinted in Crick's compilation "The Household Tips of Great Writers" (London: Granta, 2011).

Alternative Title
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of Literature in 17 Recipes.
Household Tips of the Great Writers.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion