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.