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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 22 June 1888)
... growing among the herbs with healing
powers. Nevertheless, I am in the habit of taking large
quantities of bad coffee in such cases, not because it is very
good for my already damaged collection of teeth, but because my
strong imaginative powers enable... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 June 1888)
... The difficulty is eating at home alone. The
restaurants here are expensive because everybody eats at
home.
Certainly the Picards and the Leonardo da Vinci too are not
less beautiful because they are few, and on the other hand the
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(11 August 1888)
... and by way of being
eternal.
Fortunately my digestion is so nearly all right
again that I have lived for three weeks in the month on ship's biscuits with
milk and eggs. It is the blessed warmth that is bringing back
my strength, and I... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Mr. and Mrs. Ginoux
(30 or 31 December 1889)
... friends - my friends for a
long time.
I have forgotten to thank you for the olives you sent me
some time ago, they were excellent; I shall bring back the
boxes in a little while…
So I write you this letter, my dear friends, in... | Newspaper article by Anton Kerssemakers
(14 April 1912)
... square sheep low down along the mill.
In those days he was starving like a true Bohemian, and more
than once it happened that he did not see meat (for the purpose
of eating) for six weeks on end, always just dry bread with a
chunk of cheese. It won't... | Exerpt from La vie tragique de Vincent van Gogh
(1939)
... young man, speaking little - always
pensive. He lived very soberly: when he got up in the morning,
he breakfasted off two slices of dry bread and drank a cold cup
of black coffee.
Apart from his meals, he drank only water. He always had his
meals... |
Memoir by Adeline Ravoux
(1956)
... on which
scholars will have to work.
The menu was that served during the period in restaurants:
meat, vegetables, salad, dessert. I do not remember M. Vincent
having any food preference. He never refused a dish. He was not
a difficult... |
