Drawn from the works of Dickens, Chekhov, Christina Rosetti, Louisa May Alcott, Shakespeare, and more, these eating scenes will inspire even the most jaded of palates. It includes a bounty of ideas on how readers can dress up, prepare the food, and make memorable occasions.
Exploring the important linkage between food and literature in Arabic culture Van Gelder (Arabic, U. of Oxford) examines a variety ofclassical Arabic texts, tracing the ways that discussions of food arise in pieces such as the Koran, pre-Islamic poetry, and the Thousand and one Nights. He argues that food may act as a marker for many different ...
What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of the British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of ...
The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans.She begins with the general argument that eating is a means of becoming - not simply in the ...
This cookbook will help teachers inspire students to get excited about reading in new and delightfully delicious ways. The more than 200 simple, kid-tested recipes are all based on children's picture books.
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