A Year in Books/Day 14: Literary Feasts

  • Title: Literary Feasts Inspired Eating from Classic Fiction
  • Author: Sean Brand
  • Year Published: 2006 (ATRIA Books)
  • Year Purchased: 2008
  • Source: Daedalus Books
  • About: A tantalizing cornucopia of literature’s finest culinary scenes, complete with all necessary ingredients to recreate them.
  • Motivation: Classic literature + food. Need there be anything more?
  • Times Read: 1
  • Random Excerpt/Page 35: “Of all the feasts in this book, Swann’s way is the most obsessively sensitive and gratuitously nostalgic. It is not about flavor, and certainly not about portion-size-it is only a small mouthful that sets Swann off on his multi-volume reverie. This tea reminds the serious gastronome of the exquisite pleasures of simple things simply done, and the extraordinarily range of memories that can be revived by simple tastes.”
  • Happiness Scale: 7 1/2
    Marcel Proust in 1900

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