One Hundred Years of Solitude

liked the native cooking so
much that once he ate eighty-
two iguana eggs at one
sitting. Amaranta Úrsula, on
the other hand, had brought in
by train fish and shellfish in
boxes of ice, canned meats
and preserved fruits, which
were the only things she
could eat, and she still
dressed in European style and
received designs by mail in
spite of the fact that she had
no place to go and no one to