Voracious: a hungry reader cooks her way through great books

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

Moby-Dick : Clam chowder

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.