From the Book - First edition.
Part I: Childhood. Little house in the big woods : Breakfast sausage
"Hansel and Gretel" : Gingerbread cake with blood orange syrup
In the night kitchen : Scalded and malted milk cake
Nancy Drew : Double chocolate walnut sundae
If you give a mouse a cookie : Brown butter chocolate chip cookies
The Indian in the cupboard : Grilled roast beef
The boxcar children : Chocolate pudding
Pippi Longstocking : Buttermilk pancakes
Anne of Green Gables : Salted chocolate caramels
Homer Price : Old-fashioned sour cream donuts
The witches : Mussel, shrimp, and cod stew
The secret garden : Currant buns
Charlotte's web : Pea and bacon soup
Where the red fern grows : Skillet cornbread with honey butter
Strega Nona : Black pepper-Parmesan pasta
"The legend of Sleepy Hollow" : Buckwheat pancakes
Part II: Adolescence and college years. To kill a mockingbird : Biscuits with molasses butter
Lord of the flies : Porchetta di testa
The catcher in the rye : Malted milk ice cream
The bell jar : Crab-stuffed avocados
Rebecca : Blood orange marmalade
Les Misérables : Black rye bread
Great expectations : Pork pie
Down and out in Paris and London : Rib-eye steak
Pride and prejudice : White garlic soup
The silence of the lambs : Crostini with fava bean and chicken liver mousses
Middlesex : Olive oil yogurt cake
Brideshead revisited : Blinis with caviar
The corrections : Chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream frosting
The Aeneid : Honey-poppy seed cake
Mrs. Dalloway : Chocolate éclairs
Anna Karenina : Oysters and cucumber mignonette
Part III: Adulthood. The bluest eye : Concord grape sorbet
A confederacy of dunces : Jelly donuts
The dog start : Whole roasted trout
The hours : Birthday cake
"Goodbye to all that" : Grilled peaches with homemade ricotta
American pastoral : Hot cheese sandwich
Emma : Perfect soft-boiled egg
"The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" : Goat cheese pumpkin pie
In cold blood : Cherry pie
The little friend : Peppermint stick ice cream
"Gimpel the fool" : Challah
In the woods : Chocolate-covered digestive biscuits
Sometimes a great notion : Blackberry-hazelnut coffee cake
Gone girl : Bron butter crêpes
The Odyssey : Red wine-rosemary bread
"The best girlfriend you never had" : Red flannel hash
The secret history : Wine-braised leg of lamb with wild mushrooms.
