Fictitious Dishes - An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GREAT FICTION AND FOOD Pairing approximately 50 charming photographic re-creations of meals from classic and contemporary literature--all prepared, styled, and shot by the author--with relevant excerpts, Fictitious Dishes is an innovative gift book for literature lovers, foodies, as well as design and book junkies. Fictitious Dishes presents these imaginative pairings in an eye-catching format. Along with the excerpt from the original work, each entry includes information about food, the author, their works, and the food itself. Fun facts--Proust''s infamous madeleine made its appearance on the printed page the same year the Oreo was invented, for example--along with anecdotes about writers, their works, and their culinary predilections, fill the charming book from start to finish. Among the highlighted meals are: Alice''s Adventures in Wonderful: The Mad Hatter''s Tea Party The Bell Jar: Crab-stuffed Avocado The Catcher in the Rye: Cheese sandwich and Malted The Corrections: Cupcakes and Chardonnay Emma: Picnic Lunch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Open-faced Sandwich with Coffee The Great Gatsby: "Glistening Hors-d''oeuvre" and cocktail Middlesex: Hercules "flexing" hotdog On the Road: Apple Pie with Ice Cream To Kill a Mockingbird: Fried Chicken, Tomatoes, Beans, Scuppernong, and Rolls To the Lighthouse: Boeuf en Daube Comprehensive and entertaining, Fictitious Dishes is an irresistible impulse buy, and makes the perfect gift for food, literature, and design aficionados for every occasion.

Product details

• Authors: Dinah Fried, Fried Dinah
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9780062279835
• ISBN: 978-0-06-227983-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 160 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Graphic Design, Popular Culture, History of Art, Reference works, United States of America, USA, Fiction: general and literary, Book design and Bookbinding, The Arts: techniques and principles, Photography and photographs, Drawing and drawings, Colours and colour theory, FICTION: Literary, ART: Popular Culture, PHOTOGRAPHY: Reference, DESIGN: Graphic Arts / General, PHOTOGRAPHY: Subjects & Themes / General, DESIGN: Book, TV / Celebrity chef / eateries cookbooks