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Great Snacks in Literature

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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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