Product Description

Our busy twenty-first-century lifestyle doesn't allow much time for us to enjoy the pleasures of a good meal. Literary Feasts aims to change that by restoring readers' desires to eat, drink, and be merry.

While Leopold Bloom fortified himself for his rambles through Dublin with a hearty breakfast of grilled kidneys with pepper, thinly sliced bread and butter, and a large pot of tea, James Bond started his days off with a half pint of chilled OJ, three scrambled eggs, two cups of black coffee, and a pack of Chesterfields. The lucky revelers invited to Jay Gatsby's mansion feasted on baked hams, pastry pigs, and turkeys bewitched to dark gold, all washed down with champagne served in glasses the size of finger bowls. And of course P. G. Wodehouse made sure that Bertie Wooster always dined in style. The eating scenes gathered here -- drawn from the works of Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Chekhov, Christina Rossetti, Louisa May Alcott, Shakespeare, and many other great writers -- will inspire even the most jaded of palates. Literary Feasts includes a bounty of practical ideas, too, on how readers can dress up, prepare the food themselves, and make truly memorable occasions. Literary Feasts is perfect for book lovers who live to eat.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #815609 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
Sean Brand studied literature and his first job included a stint as a restaurant reviewer, where the lunch was less than literary, but his fascination for fictional food began to blossom. Since then, as a published poet, he has enjoyed many of his meals between two covers, as well as actually on a plate. Sean is the author of a number of other books on art, politics, and medieval Europe.

Customer Reviews

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Literary Feasts: Inspired Eating from Classic Fiction


I bought this book as a gift for a writer friend who loves to cook, but I will not bother giving this MOST FRUSTRATING tome to them. I expected recipes, however, this pompous assemblage with its misleading title seemed more like some highbrow and pretentious compilation of reminders of foodstuffs and meals mentioned in various books put together just to impress someone's tonier friends with their reading list. No recipes, not even half the fun it could have been. I gave it 2 stars, as the graphics are lovely, as is the cover, but the content was an exersise in snooty pretention.

Don't waste your money unless you are looking for a guide to put together a party on a theme - - this will help somewhat with that, but you will still need to ferret out the recipes from somewhere else. This was a major disappointment. I got more from THE BOOK LOVER'S COOKBOOK!

The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them