Shapiro has created inventive menus to accompany the pleasures of reading Proust, Isak Dinesen, and Charlotte Bronte. Over 50 recipes for such delights as Queso Rellono (Serenade), Quail with Potaoes and Grapes ("Babette's Feast"), Lamb a la Robin (David Copperfield), and Meat Tart (Ethan Frome) accompany essays which expound upon the importance of food in such masterpieces as Anna Karenina, Moby Dick, and Jane Eyre.
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Shapiro melds the art of literature with the craft of cuisine, pairing inventive menus with passages from treasured fiction. Barbara Pym, Charles Dickens, Colette, Doris Lessing, and Thomas Hardy--these and countless other writers knew just how effective it could be to interject descriptions of food or meals partaken in order to move a story along or depict stirring emotional quandaries. "Starved Love," "Penitential Meals," and "Eating the Social Index" are a few of the categories Shapiro assembles, designating various perspectives found in classic novels spanning Anna Karenina to Marjorie Morningstar. The recipes are straightforward, easy to follow, and perhaps most intriguing for their literary connotations. Alice Joyce
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Most readers of Jane Austen would not think of her as a great dweller upon food; she is known as a great dweller upon character. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dry salted fare, persimmon pudding, salmon loaf Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Ada, Hans Castorp, Alice Adams, Cold Comfort, King Pluto, Miss Temple, Jane Eyre, Miss Aiden, New York, Beef Tart, Jane Austen, Miss Aroon, Salmon Loaf, Swann's Way New!
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Most readers of Jane Austen would not think of her as a great dweller upon food; she is known as a great dweller upon character. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dry salted fare, persimmon pudding, salmon loaf Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Ada, Hans Castorp, Alice Adams, Cold Comfort, King Pluto, Miss Temple, Jane Eyre, Miss Aiden, New York, Beef Tart, Jane Austen, Miss Aroon, Salmon Loaf, Swann's Way New!
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- Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym in Front Matter, page 76, and page 77
- Alice Adams (Library of Indiana Classics) by Booth Tarkington on page 140, page 143, and page 147
- The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro on page 46, page 47, and Back Matter
- Tanglewood Tales: For Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 40, and page 41
- Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust on page 165, and Back Matter
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- Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and More by Dianne Jacob on page 232, and Back Matter
- Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions) by Meredith E. Abarca on page 136, and Back Matter
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