Cookbook: Blogs with food from literature
Masha Vorslav
Literary food blogs - the phenomenon is not new, but undoubtedly pleasant. Firstly, because they do not make a food porn and do not dazzle with hundreds, even beautiful pictures. Secondly, the people who lead them love to read, and therefore they are most often able to write tolerably well. And thirdly, who ever had a desire to sip creamy beer or try Willy Wonka's sweets? We have more than once, so we picked up seven blogs linking food and literature.
Eat this poem
Nicole has got Eat This Poem a year and a half ago and thus finally combined two of her main hobbies: food and literature. Most often, the girl searches for gastronomic poems and reproduces recipes from them: for example, a scramble with cheddar was made based on For the Buyer of Breakfasts in Salem, and three lines of A Leek Haiku were enough to make leek risotto.
Yummy books
Unusual girl Kara Nicoletti works as a butcher in one Brooklyn shop, loves - by itself - to read and prepares her own book - a culinary one. The selection of recipes in her blog is quite distinctive, but those Madeleine from “Towards Swan” and Hansel’s ginger cake and Gretel stand apart.
Paper and salt
Perhaps, exemplary blog: nice looking pictures do not discourage the desire to read the author’s rolling descriptions - they are often more interesting than the recipes themselves. The latter, however, are outstanding: there is a tart with molasses, a pancake Chekhovian cake and Hemingue trout in bacon.
Book menus
The author does not cook, like everyone else in our selection, but analyzes the texts of the works and writes out all the dishes that are found in them - sometimes with links to recipes. In the first book of the Game of Thrones series, for example, the girl counted 66 harsh positions, including scones, pigeons and lamprey pies and turnips in oil.
Read and Eat
The only Russian blog We were chosen not least because of the pumpkin juice and pie recipes - finally, you can cook them yourself and imagine for a moment that you did receive a letter from Hogwarts. In general, the author's English cuisine is in high esteem: the girl got confused and made cupcakes and mince pies that the hobbit Bilbo treated the guests, as well as several puddings (“Meet Me, Alice, This is Pudding”) and the Christmas dinner of the poor Kratchitov.
Paper / Plates
Paper / Plates founded Emina Elahi (Amina Elahi), and soon three more girls joined her - this did not stop the blog from being whole, but only absorbed more recipes - again from books. Even in the blog there is an interesting Eat Your Words rubric: once a week, the authors choose one conventionally literary and gastronomic word and explain them (the author learned about dog-ear and hasselback potato from there).
Bryton taylor
Blog host not only does the usual food (although it is hardly possible to call Willy Wonka’s ordinary sugar jaws), but he also keeps his nose to the wind: to the recent film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Brit dismantled the whole menu of a local dinner party - not that impressive, as it turned out.
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