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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on September 6, 2013 by kara

Harriet the Spy’s Tomato Sandwich When I was a kid, there were exactly three girl sleuths on American bookshelves. Nancy Drew, with her sweater sets and ladies who lunch, Trixie Belden, with her horse and her “Moms”, and Harriet M. … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 4, 2013 by kara

My two favorite things: books and food. These tableaue are from an American graphic design student named Dinah Fried, titled  Fictitious Dishes. Dinah Fried has focused her lens on dishes in Oliver Twist, The Catcher in the Rye, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Girl with … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on December 19, 2012 by kara

Illustration from a 1915 edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, by Arthur Rackham, a famous late Victorian/Edwardian book illustrator. Ilustration is from the scene that Scrooge views in the Cratchit household whilst being escorted by the ghost of Christmas Present. “In … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on December 12, 2012 by kara

Snack: Chompo Bar Reference: A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban [Harper & Row, 1968] “Chompo Bars have a soft nougat part inside, and there is a chewy caramel part around that, and the outside is chocolate with nuts.” Although … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on August 2, 2011 by kara

Nancy Drew’s Roadwise Meal from “The Sign of the Twisted Candle”. In The Sign of the The Twisted Candle, Nancy, George and Bess stop at a quirky roadside Inn stop for a light snack of tea and cinnamon toast, but when news … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on June 23, 2011 by kara

Christmas Pudding, A Christmas Carol Hallo. A great deal of steam. The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day. That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature.

Posted on April 8, 2011 by kara

Sugar Mouse Cake. “When morning came, Tom’s cake was decorated from top to bottom with white sugar mice. They had pink sugar eyes and pink sugar noses and all of them looked as real as could be. Some were musicians … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on March 31, 2011 by kara

Turkish Delight. “The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened turned out to contain several pounds of the best Turkish … Continue reading →

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