The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

He ladled out stew, thick with chunks of vegetables and meat, from a pot simmering over a small fire at the back of the cave. There were fruits, too, round red berries that he kept in a hollowed outcropping of rock.

Menu idea

Dinner was more stew, and a thin type of bread that Chiron cooked on bronze sheets over the fire. For dessert, berries with mountain-gathered honey.

Food

amazement as butter formed before our eyes, at the way pheasant eggs sizzled and solidified on fire-warmed rocks.