Tag: literary figure
Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
by Andrew Beahrs From the publisher: One young food writer’s search for America’s lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hens, with Mark Twain as his guide. […]
Food and the Novel in 19th Century America
by Mark McWilliams From the publisher: Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully […]
Dining with Proust: A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque
by Shirley King From the publisher: Marcel Proust’s literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the author’s vivid […]
History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present
by Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick From the publisher: When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking […]
Dinner with Dickens: Recipes Inspired by the Life and Work of Charles Dickens
by Pen Vogler From the publisher: Dinner with Dickens celebrates the food of Victorian England by recreating dishes the author wrote about with such gusto, and enjoyed in real life. […]