For Lovers of Food and Fiction
With drawings by the author

An unusual cookbook for literature lovers with delicious recipes inspired by great scenes in literature.

Literature is nourishment. The author has created inventive menus to accompany the pleasures of reading Proust, Isak Dinesen, and Charlotte Brontë. Along with tempting your palate with luscious cuisine--included are over fifty recipes--you'll learn how very central food is in Anna Karenina, Moby-Dick, Jane Eyre, and Marjorie Morningstar. If there were no joint of meat in Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter," the philandering husband would be living happily with his new love. Without the dirty cup of tea in Doris Lessing's A Good Neighbour, Jane Somers might never wake up to love; and Rose in Alice Munro's "Royal Beatings" might be able to resist her stepmother if she could resist salmon sandwiches.

Menu inspired by The Magic Mountain:
Roast Duck with Cranberry Conserve
Fresh Spinach Sauteed in Olive Oil & Nutmeg
Mix of Brown and Wild Rice
Creamed Turnip Casserole
Pear Conserve with Vanilla Ice Cream and Crumbled Amaretti

A perfect gift to bring to a dinner party. Anna Shapiro is the author of two novels: The Right Bitch and Life and Love Such as They Are. She lives in New York City.

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