The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

The Sixth Day

3 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

The Sixth Day

THE following morning, at breakfast, a servant announced that Sir John Oglethorpe was taking his breakfast in his room, and that there was…

The Sixth Day: Narcisse

I was greatly upset by this news, but I was interested, and in a measure consoled, to find an enclosure amongst the other papers, an…

The Sixth Day: Mademoiselle

The lovers plotted to remove Madame by first drugging her, then breaking her skull with the wood chopper, and then pitching her downstairs…

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