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Hungry Reader Challenge: Baguettes from Les Miserables

Here's one last entry in our Hungry Reader Challenge. We had a lot of fun last month remembering some of our favorite food from books. Novels, essays, plays and poetry have inspired our cooking, eatin...

The Hungry Reader: On Cooking and Plot

March is over but we're still polishing off a month of Hungry Reading and our Hungry Reader Challenge. Here's a post from our Weekend Meditations contributor Dana. Sometimes novels that aren't tryin...

The Hungry Reader: On Cooking and Plot

March is over but we're still polishing off a month of Hungry Reading and our Hungry Reader Challenge. Here's a post from our Weekend Meditations contributor Dana. Sometimes novels that aren't tryin...

Hungry Reader Challenge: Julia Child's Tarte Tatin

The next entry in our Hungry Reader Challenge is from Stephanie, who also gave us this Bittersweet Baking Honorable Mention: Go Buckeye Cherry Pie. Through our recent Book Club Stephanie has grown sl...

Hungry Reader Challenge: Julia Child's Tarte Tatin

The next entry in our Hungry Reader Challenge is from Stephanie, who also gave us this Bittersweet Baking Honorable Mention: Go Buckeye Cherry Pie. Through our recent Book Club Stephanie has grown sl...

Food in Literature: Take The Guardian's Tough Quiz

Here's a little tidbit courtesy of reader Stacey, just in time for the end of Hungry Reader month. The Guardian - a major British newspaper - has a quiz on books and food. It's a tough one - we're not...

Hungry Reader Challenge: All's Well That Ends Well and Cornish Pasties

We issued a Hungry Reader challenge with a reward: Cook a dish or meal inspired by a book, and we'll send you a copy of a new favorite book, American Artisanal by Rebecca Gray. There are still several...

Hungry Reader Challenge: All's Well That Ends Well and Cornish Pasties

We issued a Hungry Reader challenge with a reward: Cook a dish or meal inspired by a book, and we'll send you a copy of a new favorite book, American Artisanal by Rebecca Gray. There are still several...

The Hungry Reader: The Devil's Food Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical work by Ambrose Bierce, written between 1881 and 1906, and also going under the name The Cynic's Word Book. It lampoons common human failings, politicians, religi...

The Hungry Reader: The Devil's Food Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical work by Ambrose Bierce, written between 1881 and 1906, and also going under the name The Cynic's Word Book. It lampoons common human failings, politicians, religi...

Weekend Reading: Cooked Books from The New Yorker

The lengthy descriptions of cooking that we find in modern literature are a way of artfully representing, rather than actually reproducing, our mental life—a modelled illusion, rather than a snapsho...

Weekend Reading: Cooked Books from The New Yorker

The lengthy descriptions of cooking that we find in modern literature are a way of artfully representing, rather than actually reproducing, our mental life—a modelled illusion, rather than a snapsho...

The Hungry Reader Challenge: Cook A Dish From a Book and Win a Copy of American Artisanal

We're nearing the end of March (already?) and we've had a lot of fun this month quietly blogging food from some of our favorite books. We've done maple syrup from the Little House books, hobbits and m...

The Hungry Reader Challenge: Cook A Dish From a Book and Win a Copy of American Artisanal

We're nearing the end of March (already?) and we've had a lot of fun this month quietly blogging food from some of our favorite books. We've done maple syrup from the Little House books, hobbits and m...

The Hungry Reader Challenge: Cook A Dish From a Book and Win a Copy of American Artisanal

We're nearing the end of March (already?) and we've had a lot of fun this month quietly blogging food from some of our favorite books. We've done maple syrup from the Little House books, hobbits and m...

Good For You, Yet Delicious: The Short Stories (and Cooking) of Laurie Colwin

We owe a great debt to Laurie Colwin. She gave us bracing inspiration in our cooking development, insisting in her brief yet potent essays for Gourmet, collected in Home Cooking and More Home Cooking,...

Good For You, Yet Delicious: The Short Stories (and Cooking) of Laurie Colwin

We owe a great debt to Laurie Colwin. She gave us bracing inspiration in our cooking development, insisting in her brief yet potent essays for Gourmet, collected in Home Cooking and More Home Cooking,...

The Hungry Reader: Hobbits, Mushrooms and Bacon

What would Hungry Reader month be without a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits and their everlasting love of mushrooms? The small, homey people in those books have an enormous love of food that far...

Straight Up: Thirsty Reads from Haruki Murakami

“Anyone who enjoys whisky would recognize me right away, but never mind. My name is Johnnie Walker.”-Kafka on the ShoreLast week we took a look at Irish whiskey. Before that, straight rye. This we...

Straight Up: Thirsty Reads from Haruki Murakami

“Anyone who enjoys whisky would recognize me right away, but never mind. My name is Johnnie Walker.”-Kafka on the ShoreLast week we took a look at Irish whiskey. Before that, straight rye. This we...

Straight Up: Thirsty Reads from Haruki Murakami

“Anyone who enjoys whisky would recognize me right away, but never mind. My name is Johnnie Walker.”-Kafka on the ShoreLast week we took a look at Irish whiskey. Before that, straight rye. This we...

The Hungry Reader: Peter Rabbit's Brown Bread

It's the first day of spring, and we're thinking rabbits, eggs, and chicks. Except, here at The Kitchn, we try to avoid all that twee stuff. For us, the trappings of spring mean gold painted eggs and ...

The Hungry Reader: Peter Rabbit's Brown Bread

It's the first day of spring, and we're thinking rabbits, eggs, and chicks. Except, here at The Kitchn, we try to avoid all that twee stuff. For us, the trappings of spring mean gold painted eggs and ...

The Hungry Reader: Peter Rabbit's Brown Bread

It's the first day of spring, and we're thinking rabbits, eggs, and chicks. Except, here at The Kitchn, we try to avoid all that twee stuff. For us, the trappings of spring mean gold painted eggs and ...

The Hungry Reader: Revolutionary Road

We've given you plenty of wholesome, heartwarming dishes in scenes from some of our favorite novels. But in Revolutionary Road — a bitter look at suburban life in the 1950s — it's a grotesque di...

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