Comments on: From the Page to the Plate: Bringing Literary Dishes to Life

By: Bree

Bree — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:34:02 +0000

The food from the Hunger Games always makes my mouth water! The food from the gamemakers’ meals and parties, that is.

By: Christel Harden

Christel Harden — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:52:55 +0000

I constantly craved boiled eggs and tea while reading Angela’s Ashes. Frank McCourt’s description of the pleasure that the impoverished Irish family derived from the humblest of meals made me feel that I was starving and malnourished as well.

By: vel

vel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:04:10 +0000

I was doing this back in the 70s when I was about 8 years old. Ah, the dangers of a smart kid reading about mead in fantasy books and then reading about it in a encyclopedia, I made it in my closet using spices, water and honey in dixie cups (ahem, waterproof hadn’t occured to me) hidden in an old Valentine’s Day box to hide it from my parents.

It’s good I had strong linoleum in that closet.

By: Rachael Greenberg

Rachael Greenberg — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:36:07 +0000

And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom , my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it; perhaps because I had so often seen such things in the meantime, without tasting them, on the trays in pastry-cooks’ windows, that their image had dissociated itself from those Combray days to take its place among others more recent; perhaps because of those memories, so long abandoned and put out of mind, nothing now survived, everything was scattered; the shapes of things, including that of the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds, were either obliterated or had been so long dormant as to have lost the power of expansion which would have allowed them to resume their place in my consciousness.

By: Judith

Judith — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:28:29 +0000

I love references to cooking in books. My requests to these bloggers would include Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel, her book actually includes those wonderful recipes); Babette’s Feast (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen); the dishes inspired by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Barcelona-based detective, Pepe Carvalho; and the cooking supervised with lively interest by Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.

By: michele

michele — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:39:47 +0000

I’ve always wanted to work on something like this! I read quite a bit of literature and the food bits are always fascinating to me. There is a blog I read, http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/, that has some really amazing stuff on it. I think you guys would like it and find some similar ideas that Ivan Day was able to execute.
Cheers!

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:26:16 +0000

That should be “starving or retching”, yes?

By: Lars Kronquist

Lars Kronquist — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:52:43 +0000

Terrific blog. Keep these coming. Lars Kronquist