The Master & Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

“His wife brought to the kitchen a neatly sliced herring, liberally sprinkled with spring onions.” p. 97

“The pan was uncovered. It proved to hold sausages in tomato sauce.” p. 76

“The visitor did not refuse a second goblet of wine either; he swallowed several oysters with obvious enjoyment, tried some boiled vegetables and ate a piece o meat.” p.303

“…on the jeweler’s wife’s pouffe there lounged in a free-and-easy pose a third figure—namely, a black cat of awesome dimensions with a shot glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other.” p. 80

“The first thing they saw there was the house owner’s cook sitting on the ground, and beside her lay some split potatoes and several bunches of onions.” p. 373

“But Pelageya Antonovna brought in a steaming saucepan, from a single glance at which it could immediately be guessed that inside, at the heart of the fiery borsch, was to be found the thing that which is there is nothing more delicious in the world—a marrow bone.” p. 97

“Behemoth cut off a piece of pineapple, put salt and pepper on it, ate it, and after that knocked back second glass of alcohol so raffishly that everyone started clapping.” p. 276