Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology

Autori

• Christina Hardyment

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• 224 pagine
• 8 ore di lettura

• Libri di cucina

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This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing features delightful scenes of cooking and feasting from various novels and stories, alongside poems that use food to entice and seduce. It highlights the idea that great authors were as eager to nourish their bodies as their imaginations. This anthology spans a wide range of time and place, exploring literary eating and exceptional writing about food that will amuse, surprise, and tantalize readers. It begins with examples of hospitality, from Chaucer's convivial Franklin to Walter Scott's lavish breakfasts and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay's dinners. The collection also showcases impressive meals, including dazzling banquets from Flaubert to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and memorable fictional love feasts, illustrating the strong connection between food and love in literature. Nostalgic childhood memories of food are captured in classic scenes like Pinocchio's hunger, Ratty and Mole's picnic, enchanted Turkish delight in Narnia, and seaside picnics from Enid Blyton. A section on distant times and places features unique dishes, such as seethed tortoise in ancient China and seal's liver fried in penguin blubber for Captain Scott. For those who appreciate simplicity, there are also reflections on delicate salad dressings by Sydney Smith and Hemingway's love for oysters.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2015

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