A gothic cookbook : hauntingly delicious recipes inspired by 13 classic tales
2024
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"From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, A Gothic Cookbook focuses on thirteen different Gothic stories and their edible motifs before bringing them to life--and to your table. Delicious yet devious, this cookbook is a culinary and literary delight. Dracula lulls protagonist Jonathan Harker into a false sense of security with cold cuts and a spicy, smoky, peppery stew. Frankenstein's "monster" starts out as a benign vegetarian, while Mrs. Poole's overindulgence in Mother's Ruin triggers Mr. Rochester's downfall in Jane Eyre -- and a bitter tangerine signals a sharp, yet unheeded, warning against marriage and Manderley in Rebecca. Notice, too, how a ghostly presence craves sugar and burnt bread in Toni Morrison's Beloved... Inspired by Dr Alessandra Pino's academic studies into how food manifests itself on the pages of Gothic literature and combining her knife-sharp analysis with Ella Buchan's experience as a food writer and recipe developer, A Gothic Cookbook pays homage to the most appetizing cuts of the genre, featuring over sixty original recipes illustrated by Lee Henry."-- Amazon.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781524894085
Description: xiv, 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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- Hauntingly delicious recipes inspired by 13 classic tales
- Hauntingly delicious recipes inspired by thirteen classic tales
Notes:
- First published in 2024 by Unboad (London).
- Includes index.
Contents:
- A vegetarian monster: betrayal and berries in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Gin, tea, and not enough sympathy in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
- Gothic gourmands and bitter sweets in Wilkie Collin's The woman in white
- Conspicious consumption and cold hearts in Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray
- Best served bloody: cold-comfort meals in Bram Stoker's Dracula
- The tyranny of tea, and tales told by tangerines, in Daphne de Maurier's Rebecca
- Hungry hearts and seeking solace in sundaes in Carson McCuller's The heart is a lonely hunter
- A hungry home and stiff suppers in Shirley Jackson's The haunting of Hill House
- The food of witchcraft, and neighbours from Hell, in Ira Levin's Rosemary's baby
- Food as fantasy, and craving contentment in Angela Carter's "The bloody chamber"
- Clinging to comfort food with cold, dead hands in Susan Hill's The woman in black
- A ravenous ghost and sweet things in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Domestic vampires and distant memories of food in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda stories.
LCCN: 2024938590
Control Number: 3410347
Publisher: Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2024]Subjects:
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