'Novel' Food Event

by Emily Matchar, Posted Mar 4th 2009 @ 7:00PM

Love to eat? Love to read? Well mark April 4 on your calendar, as that's the deadline for Novel Food #7, the latest edition of an online culinary/literary event launched by bloggers Lisa of Champaign Taste and Simona of briciole.

Here are the rules, direct from Lisa and Simona:

Prepare a dish of your choosing that has a connection to a published literary work (novel, novella, short story, memoir, bio, poem).
Publish a post about it on your blog by Saturday April 4, 2009 (midnight, Pacific Time), referencing the Novel Food event. Include a link to Lisa's or Simona's announcement. If you wish, you can use the Novel Food logo.
Send an e-mail to Lisa (champaigntaste AT gmail DOT com) or to me (simosite AT mac DOT com) and include your name, blog name and blog address, and a permanent link to your post. Please, include the words Novel Food in the email subject, so we can more easily retrieve the message in our inbox.
Non-English submissions are fine. If possible, include an introduction in English.

If you don't have a blog, send us an email telling us about the recipe, the literary work that inspired it, and, if you have it, a picture what you made: we will add it to the roundup as well.

One literary food scene that made an early impression on me is from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy, the story of her husband's rural childhood. Almonzo Wilder seemed to be eating on every page, and what food! Huge helpings of salt pork and chicken and hunks of lavishly buttered homemade bread and mashed turnips and fresh greens and entire apple pies with cream, all washed down with droughts of fresh whole milk straight from the cows.

What are your favorite literary food scenes?

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