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Language
English
Description
"As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people to life. Now a butcher, cook, and talented writer, she serves up stories and recipes inspired by beloved books and the food that gives their characters depth and personality. From the breakfast sausage in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods to chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream from Jonathan Franzen's The...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From feasts to fashion, awareness of the medieval quotidian has proven vital to interpreting its literature. Authors and audiences may yearn for transcendence, only to find it rooted to the social world of practice. As Jill Mann reminds us in 1979, a time when patristic, theologically grounded schools of criticism seemed predominant: "The material world is not merely a vehicle for expressing the immaterial, but on the contrary contains the heart...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
No recipes, but an assortment of photographic interpretations of culinary moments from contemporary and classic literature. Fried pairs each place setting with the text from that book that inspired its creation. She includes food facts and anecdotes about the authors, their work, and their culinary predilections.
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled breakfasts, thrilling entrées, cozy desserts, and more--this illustrated cookbook features more than 100 recipes from legendary mystery authors. Whether you're planning a sinister dinner party or whipping up some comfort food perfect for a day of writing, you'll find plenty to savor in this cunning collection. Full-color photography is featured throughout, along with mischievous sidebars revealing the links between food and foul play....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The beloved New York Times bestselling culinary mystery writer delivers a cookbook packed with more than 160 mouthwatering recipes and charming anecdotes about her writing and cooking life. Diane Mott Davidson is the author of seventeen bestselling mysteries featuring caterer/sleuth Goldy Schulz, a woman who "took the lemon that life had given her and made not just lemonade but Lemon Chicken, Lemon Bars, Lemon Cookies and Lemon Meringue Pie." Each...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Language
English
Description
" A revised and updated edition of the classic guide to adding flavor to your book club gatherings! Whether it's Roman punch with The Age of Innocence, Sabzi Challow (spinach and rice) and lamb with The Kite Runner, or ambrosia with To Kill a Mockingbird, nothing spices up a book club meeting like great eats. Featuring recipes and discussion ideas for one hundred popular club selections, this cookbook guides readers in selecting and preparing culinary...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Little Library Year takes you through a full twelve months in award-winning food writer Kate Young's kitchen. Here are frugal January meals enjoyed alone with a classic comfort read, as well as summer feasts to be eaten outdoors with the perfect beach read to hand. Beautifully photographed throughout, The Little Library Year is full of delicious seasonal recipes, menus and reading recommendations." --
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of Alphabet Juice presents a wry exploration of the complicated consequences of food choices in today's world, sharing meditative poems, limericks and satirical articles on subjects ranging from bacon froth and kobe beef to the global climate and personal health.,"--NoveList.
12) Cooking with the muse: a sumptuous gathering of seasonal recipes, culinary poetry, and literary fare
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Series
Publisher
Tupelo Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A cookbook and poetry anthology with 150 nutritious international recipes and a wide survey of classic and contemporary poetry about food and ingredients, along with literary essays, playful culinary and historical notes, explanatory drawings, and photographs."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Edited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs, and poems, the book is divided into sections such as "Food Writing Through History,"...
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Organized like a cookbook, Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal is a collection of American literature written on the theme of food: from an invocation to a final toast, from starters to desserts. All food literatures are indebted to the form and purpose of cookbooks, and each section begins with an excerpt from an influential American cookbook, progressing chronologically from the late 1700s through the present day, including such favorites...
Author
Publisher
Sellers Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Well Read, Well Fed supports the notion that while almost all book groups start out as serious literary endeavors, they inevitably become monthly gatherings that are as much about sharing food, wine, and catching up, as the books that are read. It's a go-to kitchen staple for book group hosts, and a helpful source of lists from classics to cutting-edge contemporaries for book groups to explore. The book includes a year of themed lists, short essays...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Presents story excerpts from more than twenty children's books (including Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, and Treasure Island) accompanied by original, easy-to-follow recipes, from breakfast items (Doctor Dolittle do-very-little sausages) and sandwiches (Treasure Island marooned cheese toast), to main meals (Robin Hood Sherwood Forest chicken) and desserts (The Fir Tree shortbread stars).
Author
Publisher
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful collection of more than 50 recipes inspired by the novels of Jane Austen brings readers a sumptuous array of dishes that capture all the spirit and verve of Austen's world and the Regency era, adapted and reimagined for the modern day"--
