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Fun gifts for funny people at Monkey Business. Coffee Break. The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's FavoriteBooks and Authors: Judy Gelman, Vicki Levy Krupp: 9781585429240: Amazon.com: Books. Food Adventures (in fiction!): A Banquet of Books. Inn at the Crossroads. Fictional food, realized.

Yummy Books — Recipes for Literature, A Literary Food Blog. The Geeky Chef: books. The Geeky Chef. Ten Of Our Favorite Foods From Literature That You Can Actually Make Yourself. For those that love words and those that love food, the combination is heaven.

Ten Of Our Favorite Foods From Literature That You Can Actually Make Yourself

I first learned how literary food could make my mouth water and tongue slurp like Wile E. Coyote through Dr. Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham, man. Then, I remember reading how Edmund couldn’t resist Turkish Delights and loved how an author could make a sugary treat sound so tempting. In short I became very ravenous, especially for pudding, figuring out which literary recipes to present. 1. Turkish Delight is comprised of sugar, gelatin, water, and cornstarch, and it is commonly flavored with rosewater, lemon or mint. Soon, it became a ritual among socialites to exchange Turkish Delights wrapped in silk handkerchiefs as gifts. 2. "Why, you see, the girls are always buying them, and unless you want to be thought mean, you must do it too. So, you see, anyone who is anyone eats pickled limes. 3. 4. 5. For true Seuss enthusiasts, try this recipe inside of a box and call it a day. 7. 8. Now, J.K. Outlander Kitchen. 5 Recipes Inspired by Your Favorite Novels.

It’s pretty much a no-brainer why we love something like The Book Club Cookbook – it combines two of our all-time favorite things: food and books.

5 Recipes Inspired by Your Favorite Novels

Even better — the recipes in the book let us get a fuller experience of our favorite novels by thinking up recipes either inspired by the story or literally contributed by the author as essential to the book. We’ve excerpted five of our favorite recipes from the forthcoming updated edition of The Book Club Cookbook, which offers a host of recipes inspired by literature (as well as book club talking points, natch), including those below as well as others from novels like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Room, Jane Eyre, and even The Age of Innocence. Click through to read (and make!) A few of our favorite recipes, including commentary from the cookbook’s authors on both the book and the food. Bon Appetit! The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon In October 1939, Josef Kavalier escaped with his life.

Cocoa-Cinnamon Babka 1. Food-Inspired Children's Books: 14 Of Our Favorite Classics (PHOTOS) Literary cookbooks and other recipes from the world of fiction. Have you ever wondered what the feasts taste like in Downton Abbey or Game of Thrones?

Literary cookbooks and other recipes from the world of fiction

Could the descriptions of sumptuous meals at Hogwards or the Hunger Games' Capital ever live up to expectation? From Fifty Shades of Grey to Winnie-The-Pooh to Mad Men, this selection of cookbooks are sure to make your next dinner party one for the ages. Aunt Maud's Recipe Book : from the kitchen of L. M. Montgomery by Elaine Crawford & Kelly Crawford The authors, descendants of a family who used to live in the famous Green Gables house, inherited LM Montgomery's handwritten cookbook in the 1980s.

The Book Lover's Cookbook: recipes inspired by celebrated works ofliterature and the passages that feature them by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen From Fannie Flagg's crispy Fried Green Tomatoes to Pooh's sweet Honey Kisses, this unique cookbook offers recipes inspired by celebrated works of literature and the passages that feature them. Fifty Shades of Chicken: a parody in a cookbook by FL Fowler. Recipe for Murder: Frightfully Good Food Inspired by Fiction: Esterelle Payany, Jean-Francois Martin: 9782080201478: Amazon.com: Books.