Food in Literature

This time of the year if filled with wonderful feasts of food and drinks and conversation, but how does food figure into the literary experience? Whether the characters are eating, drinking, or in other ways making merry, food is an important part of many novels, poems, and other literary works. Taste the flavors of books and literature as you read about favorite characters from literary masters. Read more about cooking and literature!

• Literary Cookbooks
• Lines on a Mermaid Tavern - John Keats
• House-Warming - Walden - Henry David Thoreau
• The Blind Man - Guy de Maupassant
• The Beggar - Guy de Maupassant
• My Antonia - Willa Cather
• Emma - Jane Austen

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