Hello! It’s me – Frederic Chopin. I wanted to tell you a little about myself.

You surely know that my favourite flowers are violets. Oh! Their colour! The scent! It has no equal.

People often wonder what I like to eat. Mm... At home in Warsaw they make me eat porridge with milk, cottage cheese, soft-boiled eggs with salt and pepper and rye rolls. Doctors recommend me to drink roasted oak fruit tea and milk with butter as well as brew of lime and mint. Ugh! I don’t really like it. But the worst of all is whey. You don’t know what it is? It’s a liquid left after milk has been curdled and strained. The doctors say it’s good for changes in lungs. I often eat pearl barley with butter and garlic but I what I like most are all kinds of consommé and broth that our housekeeper makes. I also have to tell you that I love all kinds of desserts and candy; I call them ‘my sweets’. The best are donuts, baked apples, candied fruit, all sorts of nuts and baked chestnuts. Oh! Yum! My favourite fruit are: raspberries, blackcurrants, ripe pears, oranges and lemons. Ha! Although I don’t look like it I really like to eat