Jonathan Green

Hi there book people, Jonathan Green here to let you know about a decidedly bookish episode of RN's food and culture show Every Bite.

You might want to check ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts for our episode titled A Memory of Madeleine's.

Yes, we take a leaf from Marcel Proust and wonder about food and memory, or more particularly about Madeleines and memory and Marcel Proust.

Fun fact, the early drafts of In Search of Lost Time contained no Madeleines.

I'll tell you the story of that on every bite.

I think it's extremely disrespectful.

Some of my colleagues and 457 other people made the ultimate sacrifice for that conflict that we was in and thousands of guys like myself were injured and are still bearing that sacrifice every single day.

I would imagine it was written for the same people as his source material, a lot of it, would have come from what were called beggar books.

The language of criminal beggars, and they were pamphlets,

and crime always paying, they were put out by various writers, and it was, look, here's the vocabulary of those rather sordid men across the tavern who might cut your purse, might even cut your throat.

I would imagine he would have had the same audience, a bit of a thrill, a bit of insider language.

It was the language people talked.

But slang has been recorded, to one extent or another, for 500 years.

It just gets bigger and it's thematic.

Making love is always going to be basically some play on man hits woman.

That's the way slang sees it.