Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Food and Great Literature Combined!

Let's start this review off with a warning - this is not a book to read if you're hungry.

In Voracious, author Cara Nicoletti brings her blog Yummy Books to book form with recipes from and/or inspired by books.

The book is divided into three parts.  Part one is Childhood and features sixteen recipes including:
  •  Breakfast Sausages from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series
  • Currant Buns from Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
  • Pea and Bacon Soup from E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
Part two is Adolescence and College Years.  It contains seventeen recipes including a fava bean and liver recipe based on Thomas Harris' book The Silence of the Lambs - never fear though.  This recipe uses chicken livers.
Part three is Adulthood, containing seventeen recipes such as:
  • Brown Butter Crepes from Gillian's Flynn's Gone Girl
  • Red Flannel Hash from Pam Houston's short story The Best Girlfriend You Never Had
  • Challah from Isaac Bashevis Singer's story Gimpel the Fool
At the end of the books, there is a listing of the authors and their books that inspired the various recipes.  A great book for those who would like a new way to sink their teeth into their favorite stories.

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