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Voracious a hungry reader cooks her way through great books

"As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people to life. Now a butcher, cook, and talented writer, she serves up stories and recipes inspired by beloved books and the food that gives their characters depth and personality. From the b...

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Main Author: Nicoletti, Cara (Author)
Other Authors: Bolognesi, Marion (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Food in literature.
Cooking in literature.
Cooking.
Cookbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Childhood. Little house in the big woods : Breakfast sausage
  • "Hansel and Gretel" : Gingerbread cake with blood orange syrup
  • In the night kitchen : Scalded and malted milk cake
  • Nancy Drew : Double chocolate walnut sundae
  • If you give a mouse a cookie : Brown butter chocolate chip cookies
  • The Indian in the cupboard : Grilled roast beef
  • The boxcar children : Chocolate pudding
  • Pippi Longstocking : Buttermilk pancakes
  • Anne of Green Gables : Salted chocolate caramels
  • Homer Price : Old-fashioned sour cream donuts
  • The witches : Mussel, shrimp, and cod stew
  • The secret garden : Currant buns
  • Charlotte's web : Pea and bacon soup
  • Where the red fern grows : Skillet cornbread with honey butter
  • Strega Nona : Black pepper-Parmesan pasta
  • "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" : Buckwheat pancakes
  • Part II: Adolescence and college years. To kill a mockingbird : Biscuits with molasses butter
  • Lord of the flies : Porchetta di testa
  • The catcher in the rye : Malted milk ice cream
  • The bell jar : Crab-stuffed avocados
  • Rebecca : Blood orange marmalade
  • Les Misérables : Black rye bread
  • Great expectations : Pork pie
  • Moby-Dick : Clam chowder
  • Down and out in Paris and London : Rib-eye steak
  • Pride and prejudice : White garlic soup
  • The silence of the lambs : Crostini with fava bean and chicken liver mousses
  • Middlesex : Olive oil yogurt cake
  • Brideshead revisited : Blinis with caviar
  • The corrections : Chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream frosting
  • The Aeneid : Honey-poppy seed cake
  • Mrs. Dalloway : Chocolate éclairs
  • Anna Karenina : Oysters and cucumber mignonette
  • Part III: Adulthood. The bluest eye : Concord grape sorbet
  • A confederacy of dunces : Jelly donuts
  • The dog start : Whole roasted trout
  • The hours : Birthday cake
  • "Goodbye to all that" : Grilled peaches with homemade ricotta
  • American pastoral : Hot cheese sandwich
  • Emma : Perfect soft-boiled egg
  • "The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" : Goat cheese pumpkin pie
  • In cold blood : Cherry pie
  • The little friend : Peppermint stick ice cream
  • "Gimpel the fool" : Challah
  • In the woods : Chocolate-covered digestive biscuits
  • Sometimes a great notion : Blackberry-hazelnut coffee cake
  • Gone girl : Bron butter crêpes
  • The Odyssey : Red wine-rosemary bread
  • "The best girlfriend you never had" : Red flannel hash
  • The secret history : Wine-braised leg of lamb with wild mushrooms.

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