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Cobb's Bill-of-Fare

by Irvin S. Cobb

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Holiday hunger sets the tone as a diner asks an elaborate city restaurant for the plain food he remembers from childhood. Turkey, mashed potatoes and a large cup of coffee become the occasion for jokes about menus, service and expensive meals. Irvin S. Cobb carries that preference for familiar pleasures into four sections on food, music, art and sport, using comic exaggeration and a conversational voice to turn personal tastes into essays.

The musical reflections include an affectionate response to a street musician playing My Old Kentucky Home. In the art section, the speaker wants pictures whose subjects he can recognize and pokes fun at the pressure to admire fashionable work. His comparisons repeatedly bring lofty cultural claims down to the level of everyday meals and household memories.

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Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb, whose full name was Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, moved from Kentucky newspapers to national reporting, magazine work, fiction and screenwriting. Born in Paducah in 1876, he began as a local reporter and later joined Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. He also reported from Europe during the First World War.

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