Replicating famous foods from literature Would you like green eggs and ham? Are you kidding, Sam-I-Am? Most readers would jump at the chance to taste some of the delicious-sounding treats described between the covers of a book. Ten Of Our Favorite Foods From Literature That You Can Actually Make Yourself For those that love words and those that love food, the combination is heaven. I first learned how literary food could make my mouth water and tongue slurp like Wile E. Coyote through Dr. Seuss.
TV Dinners Go Upscale in Trends on The Food Channel® By Cari Martens If you are staying at The Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue in New York City you might want to try the pot roast braised in pinot noir, or free range chicken with a cheddar asiago macaroni and cheese with a Parmesan crust. It may sound upscale, but now imagine those meals served on TV dinner trays. That’s right, in a surge of nostalgia, the Loews is bringing back the staple TV Dinners of the 1950s, turning retro dishes into something to appeal to their high-powered clientele. Executive Chef Andrew Rubin’s twist on traditional comfort-food is intended to bring guests back to a time when families sat around their TV sets, watching the classics and enjoyed pot roast, fried chicken and other favorites. 5 Recipes Inspired by Your Favorite Novels It’s pretty much a no-brainer why we love something like The Book Club Cookbook – it combines two of our all-time favorite things: food and books. Even better — the recipes in the book let us get a fuller experience of our favorite novels by thinking up recipes either inspired by the story or literally contributed by the author as essential to the book. We’ve excerpted five of our favorite recipes from the forthcoming updated edition of The Book Club Cookbook, which offers a host of recipes inspired by literature (as well as book club talking points, natch), including those below as well as others from novels like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Room, Jane Eyre, and even The Age of Innocence. Click through to read (and make!) a few of our favorite recipes, including commentary from the cookbook’s authors on both the book and the food.
Extreme TV Dinner Makeover: Park Avenue Edition The Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue in New York City is bringing back the iconic TV dinners of the 1950s - although served in the traditional sectioned plates, these are not your mother's TV dinners. The most obvious difference would be the $30 price tag the hotel's upscale clientele will pay for these retro rations. Chef Andrew Rubin’s is trying to bring guests back to a time when families sat around their TV sets, watching the classics and enjoying, pot roast, fried chicken and other comfort food favorites. You know, the good old days. Pictured is the "Wasabi Salmon," described by Chef Rubin as, "…a reimagined Japanese dinner. North Atlantic wild salmon is coated with wasabi paste and served with soy sauce and pickled ginger.
Literary cookbooks and other recipes from the world of fiction Have you ever wondered what the feasts taste like in Downton Abbey or Game of Thrones? Could the descriptions of sumptuous meals at Hogwards or the Hunger Games' Capital ever live up to expectation? From Fifty Shades of Grey to Winnie-The-Pooh to Mad Men, this selection of cookbooks are sure to make your next dinner party one for the ages. Aunt Maud's Recipe Book : from the kitchen of L. M. Montgomery by Elaine Crawford & Kelly Crawford
Fictional Feasts: Mouth-Watering Moments of Literary Gastronomy Watch Man Vs. Food before bed and you go to sleep craving French dipped sandwiches and face-sized burgers with cheese injected into the middle of the meat. (Adam Richman, what a charmer.) Certain scenes from fiction can get your belly growling, too. : Dinah Fried Fictitious Dishes Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals is a book of 50 photographs of meals from literature—ranging from The Secret Garden to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, published by HarperCollins. >>>Order from Amazon, B & N, Books-a-million, Bookish or Indiebound<<< Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Oliver Twist The Bell Jar 2 Ingredient Banana Pancakes If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, then you’ve probably seen pictures of my banana pancake recipe. This has become one of my favorite breakfast meals. Whenever I get a craving for pancakes, I just grab a banana, 2 eggs and my blender. That’s all you need to make this wonderful treat! These pancakes are great for anyone with digestive issues, food sensitivities, or anyone that likes pancakes!
Photographing Literature's Famous Food Scenes : The Picture Show Hide caption "I ate apple pie and ice cream — it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer." (On the Road) Dinah Fried Hide caption "Then I tackled the avocado and crabmeat salad. Avocados are my favorite fruit. Every Sunday my grandfather used to bring me an avocado pear hidden at the bottom of his briefcase under six soiled shirts and the Sunday comics." (The Bell Jar) Dinah Fried Hide caption "The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him.
Countless Uses for Coconut Oil – The Simple, the Strange, and the Downright Odd Countless Uses for Coconut Oil – The Simple, the Strange, and the Downright Odd by DR. MERCOLA Coconut oil has been a dietary and beauty staple for millennia. In 'Babette,' A Great Feast For the Palate And the Eye COMING to neighborhood theaters, and some 500 restaurants nationwide, is ''Babette's Feast,'' the movie and the meal. The Danish film, which was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign language feature, is about conflicting values, symbolized by food. Much of the action revolves around the preparation and serving of a lavish dinner by a celebrated Parisian chef, Babette Hersant, who fled to Denmark in the last century for political reasons.