While Leopold Bloom fortified himself for his rambles through Dublin with a hearty breakfast of grilled kidneys with pepper, thinly sliced bread and butter, and a large pot of tea, James Bond started his days off with a half pint of chilled OJ, three scrambled eggs, two cups of black coffee, and a pack of Chesterfields. The lucky revelers invited to Jay Gatsby's mansion feasted on baked hams, pastry pigs, and turkeys bewitched to dark gold, all washed down with champagne served in glasses the size of finger bowls. And of course P. G. Wodehouse made sure that Bertie Wooster always dined in style. The eating scenes gathered here -- drawn from the works of Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Chekhov, Christina Rossetti, Louisa May Alcott, Shakespeare, and many other great writers -- will inspire even the most jaded of palates. Literary Feasts includes a bounty of practical ideas, too, on how readers can dress up, prepare the food themselves, and make truly memorable occasions. Literary Feasts is perfect for book lovers who live to eat.
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Our busy twenty-first-century lifestyle doesn't allow much time for us to enjoy the pleasures of a good meal. Literary Feasts aims to change that by restoring readers' desires to eat, drink, and be merry.
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Sean Brand studied literature and his first job included a stint as a restaurant reviewer, where the lunch was less than literary, but his fascination for fictional food began to blossom. Since then, as a published poet, he has enjoyed many of his meals between two covers, as well as actually on a plate. Sean is the author of a number of other books on art, politics, and medieval Europe.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple & Enjoyable,
This review is from: Literary Feasts: Inspired Eating from Classic Fiction (Hardcover)
I purchased this book on a whim from a local bookstore and enjoyed it immensely. As a book lover and a food lover this book elegantly outlines some of the most memorable feasts found within classic literature. More of a coffee table book than an actual novel, this book is not only entertaining but enlightening about the interactions and deeper meanings attributed to the feasts within classic literature.
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A Rook!,
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Literary Feasts: Inspired Eating from Classic Fiction
I bought this book as a gift for a writer friend who loves to cook, but I will not bother giving this MOST FRUSTRATING tome to them. I expected recipes, however, this pompous assemblage with its misleading title seemed more like some highbrow and pretentious compilation of reminders of foodstuffs and meals mentioned in various books put together just to impress someone's tonier friends with their reading list. No recipes, not even half the fun it could have been. I gave it 2 stars, as the graphics are lovely, as is the cover, but the content was an exersise in snooty pretention. Don't waste your money unless you are looking for a guide to put together a party on a theme - - this will help somewhat with that, but you will still need to ferret out the recipes from somewhere else. This was a major disappointment. I got more from THE BOOK LOVER'S COOKBOOK! The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them
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