Vermicelli “Don Giovanni”

In creating this recipe, my prime inspiration was Byron, not Mozart.

While Venus fills the heart (without heart really

Love, though good always, is not quite so good),

Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli—

For love must be sustained like flesh and blood—

While Bacchus pours out wine, or hands a jelly:

Eggs, oysters, too, are amatory food;

But who is their purveyor from above

Heaven knows—it may be Neptune, Pan,