James Joyce's Gastronomic Ulysses
These 12 icons illustrate some of the gastronomic items in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), from breakfast at Martello Tower to hot chocolate at 7 Eccles Street.
The clock hands indicate the novel-time at which these items are found; the background depicts the spatial context. The two inner clocks do not have full clock hands, as those two (Plumtree's potted meat and Molly's seedcakes) are repeated throughout the novel, representing central themes.
Details (from left to right, top to bottom)
7 a.m. Breakfast at Martello Tower with Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan and Haines (ch. 1: Telemachus)
8 a.m. Bloom's burnt kidney (ch. 4: Calypso)
12 p.m. Stephen's parable of two old ladies with their brawns and plums (ch. 7: Aeolus)
1 p.m. Bloom's Gorgonzola cheese sandwich at Davy Byrne's (ch. 8: Lestrygonians)
2 p.m. Blazes Boyland's fruit basket for Molly (ch. 10: Wandering Rocks)
4 p.m. Bloom's liverslices dinner at Ormond Hotel (ch. 11: Sirens)
5 p.m. Men drinking Guinness at Barney Kiernan's pub (ch. 12: Cyclops)
10 p.m. Bloom's guilty night snack of a pig's crubeen and a sheep's trotter (ch. 15: Circe)
11 p.m. A cup of coffee and a roll of bread for Stephen at the cabman shelter (ch. 16: Eumaeus)
12 a.m. Stephen and Bloom sharing a cup of hot cocoa at 7 Eccles Street (ch. 17: Ithaca)
8 a.m. Bloom's burnt kidney (ch. 4: Calypso)
12 p.m. Stephen's parable of two old ladies with their brawns and plums (ch. 7: Aeolus)
1 p.m. Bloom's Gorgonzola cheese sandwich at Davy Byrne's (ch. 8: Lestrygonians)
2 p.m. Blazes Boyland's fruit basket for Molly (ch. 10: Wandering Rocks)
4 p.m. Bloom's liverslices dinner at Ormond Hotel (ch. 11: Sirens)
5 p.m. Men drinking Guinness at Barney Kiernan's pub (ch. 12: Cyclops)
10 p.m. Bloom's guilty night snack of a pig's crubeen and a sheep's trotter (ch. 15: Circe)
11 p.m. A cup of coffee and a roll of bread for Stephen at the cabman shelter (ch. 16: Eumaeus)
12 a.m. Stephen and Bloom sharing a cup of hot cocoa at 7 Eccles Street (ch. 17: Ithaca)
