Sindbad’s Winter-Sleep
Sindbad like a bear snuggled himself for winter-sleep. Just before cold weather set in he had eaten food rich in calorie for whole weeks – it did not irk him to do so because he was fond of Hungarian cuisine, tripe with hand of pork, stuffed cabbage, Hortobágyi palacsinta, which is this savory Hungarian pancake filled with veal, the rich dishes prepared after pig slaughter – the underdone liverwurst and the freshly roasted sausages and roast joint, the pork cheese – in which there was the jowl, too – the broth à la pig-slaughter which will make a spoon stand in it and is as thick as the foam in the famous Prague U fleku beer on which you can place a gold coin and it will not sink…. Besides he fattened himself with jowly-bacon, aspic, in like manner with orange and
