Q: Dear Ishmael, you're a foodie, right? What's the best meal you've ever eaten?
A: Why yes, I am a foodie--at least as much as a man who stays on the same ship for three years at a time can be. I always say, "when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it at least" [1].
The best meal I've ever had was at a little mom-and-pop inn on Nantucket called the Try Pots. I haven't been back in awhile, so I'm not sure if it's still there, but if you happen to be in town, I suggest stopping in for a bowl of chowder. There is no menu; when you sit down Mrs. Hussey gives you two choices: clam or cod?
A: Why yes, I am a foodie--at least as much as a man who stays on the same ship for three years at a time can be. I always say, "when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it at least" [1].
The best meal I've ever had was at a little mom-and-pop inn on Nantucket called the Try Pots. I haven't been back in awhile, so I'm not sure if it's still there, but if you happen to be in town, I suggest stopping in for a bowl of chowder. There is no menu; when you sit down Mrs. Hussey gives you two choices: clam or cod?
Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me. The chowder she served me and Queequeg was made of small juicy clams , scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt.
Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones through your clothes. Even now, when I lay in my hammock with half a ship's biscuit and a double ration of grog in my belly, I think back to that chowder and it fills me right up with warm and cozy feelings. [2]
[1] Melville 394
[2] Melville 76
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