~Eve Zibart in BookPage
We're just a bunch of literary foodies here at abcreads, and we can't stay away from recipes, whether they be in cookbooks or folded into other kind of books, such as the graphic memoir Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, the essays of Laurie Colwin, a book about the origins of recipes we take for granted such as A History of Food in 100 Recipes, or Molly Wizenberg's delectable A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table. We think it can only make a book more enjoyable when you can read about a dish in the context of fiction or memoir, and then attempt to make it! With that in mind, we have compiled for you a selection of tasty literary treats - don't read 'em and weep, read 'em and cook!
Novels with recipes
Meet Me at the Cupcake Café by Jenny Colgan [eBook]
Entertaining Disasters by Nancy Spiller [eBook]
Belle in the Big Apple by Brooke Parkhurst
The Quilter's Kitchen: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel with Recipes by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Ingredients of Love by Nicolas Barreau
Aftertaste: {A Novel in Five Courses} by Meredith Mileti [eBook]
Series with recipes
A Mystery with Recipes (Isis Crawford)
Pennsylvania Dutch (Tamar Myers)
Hannah Swensen (Joanne Fluke)
Culinary Mystery (Nancy Fairbanks)
Magical Bakery (Bailey Cates)
Donut Shop (Jessica Beck)
Also check out our Culinary Mysteries booklist!
Memoirs with recipes
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins by Ellen Sweets
Feed the Hungry by Nani Power
Love in the Time of Cholesterol by Cecily Ross
Monsoon Diary by Shoba Narayan
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
Cookbooks inspired by fiction
The Cat Who - Cookbook by Julie Murphy & Sally Abney Stempinski
Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook: Featuring Fried Green Tomatoes, Southern Barbecue, Banana Split Cake, and Many Other Great Recipes by Fannie Flagg [eBook]
The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired By Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages That Feature Them by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger & Janet Kay Jensen
A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Companion Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer [eBook]
Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook by Francine Segan
The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men by Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin [eBook]
For children's cookbooks inspired by fiction, visit our earlier post "Cooking by the Book (& Sometimes the Film) for Kids".
Links
Top Ten Bookish Treats [Nerdy Book Club]
Mary Poppins Zodiac Cake [History Kitchen]
Anne of Green Gables Raspberry Cordial [History Kitchen]
George Orwell's Dessert Recipes
Fictional Food
Food Through the Pages
Cook Fiction
Feast of Fiction
Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook: Featuring Fried Green Tomatoes, Southern Barbecue, Banana Split Cake, and Many Other Great Recipes by Fannie Flagg [eBook]
The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired By Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages That Feature Them by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger & Janet Kay Jensen
A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Companion Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer [eBook]
Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook by Francine Segan
The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men by Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin [eBook]
For children's cookbooks inspired by fiction, visit our earlier post "Cooking by the Book (& Sometimes the Film) for Kids".
Links
Top Ten Bookish Treats [Nerdy Book Club]
Mary Poppins Zodiac Cake [History Kitchen]
Anne of Green Gables Raspberry Cordial [History Kitchen]
George Orwell's Dessert Recipes
Fictional Food
Food Through the Pages
Cook Fiction
Feast of Fiction
1 comment:
And there's always Brunetti's Cookbook, originally A Taste of Venice: At Table with Brunetti, based on Donna Leon's excellent mystery series with Commissario Guido Brunetti and his family -- one way to learn intimately about Venice. The family is always sitting down for glorious meals!
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