Bread and cheese

A scene from a book required for High School literature left an indelible impression upon my youthful mind. More so than the rest of the book, the title of the book, the name of the character or the author. I got nothing. Except this one scene. I thought it was Old Man and the Sea but I just did word search for "bread" and for "cheese" and nothing came up.

A old man walks into his hovel by the seashore. He sits at a wooden table alone and tears off some bread and cuts a piece of cheese. That is his meal. And water. it is supposed to describe poverty.

And I was thinking, "Oh man, what a bummer!" 

They leave out it was bread the likes that you never get and the cheese was unpasteurized heaven. It's actually an incredibly satisfying meal. His bread and cheese was better than mine. 

You can see this is the beginning of a pizza.

Bread and cheese

Is this Ernest Hemingway or what? I read Old Man and the Sea when I was in high school and the scene of the old man having lunch of cheese and bread at a rickety wooden table in a little shack seared an indelible image upon my tender youthful impressionable mind. At least I think it was Old Man and the Sea. I thought at that moment of reading it, "what a pathetic lunch. Hemingway sure is good at describing abject poverty." *sads * But now I think, "what a terrific lunch!" As long as the bread is great, and the cheese is outstanding, and the water untainted. Plus a little uncured sandwich ham couldn't hurt. Well, that and a smart little tossed salad. OK, fine! A few hor d'oeuvres, a cup of soup, a plate of salad, this here bread and cheese, followed by a pasta dish, and ended with cannoli or something, with a fine domestic wine or beer to sip along the way, and honestly, how could you go wrong?