Literature
The <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1715&entry_id=1519" title="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/menus-as-literature/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/menus-as-literature/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">New York Times</a> reviews literary menus at restaurants in Philadelphia (I don’t know why, just go with it) and comes up with this literary ode to the cactus:<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The cactus leaf is a bed with the tropical tamarindo sauce inviting the chile chipotle to participate as a witness in the lynching of the fabulous filet mignon, along with the chiles serranos….<br />
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In the city of Puebla, the narrative continues, several convents were active in creating much of the traditional Mexican cooking, as we know it today. One such convent was expecting a visit by a distinguished archbishop. A nun decided to serve a sauce known by the Nahuatl Indians as mulli. However mulli is a potpourri of hot chiles.</span><br /></div><br />Indeed, menus can be quite the masterpiece of literary fiction.<br /><br />
