Six Gourmets in the Novel by Bei Xiaorong

Stewed beef with red wine in To the Lighthouse, roast suckling pig in The Great Gatsby, sweet potato with butter in Gone with the Wind, and dirt in One Hundred Years of Solitude ... American writer and designer Dana Fred cooked all the delicious foods that impressed her deeply and filmed them.

Dinah Fred extracted the food described in several novels and wrote a novel "The Dining Table". She said in the preface: "Reading and eating are natural partners, and they have many similarities.". Reading and eating are both consumption, which make people feel comfortable and relaxed, have nourishing effects and are also great enjoyment. They will cheer you up or make you sleepy. Big books and big meals take some time to digest. Reading great novels can bring you into another time and space environment, and food can also let you experience the scene away from the table. " Reading books about food is a double enjoyment.

reading novels can help us understand other people's lives, including what others eat and how they feel after eating. If you love my house and my dog, you will probably like a certain food because you like a certain book and a certain protagonist. Dana Fred said that after reading Lolita, a friend of his began to drink gin and pineapple juice together, because it was the favorite drink of storyteller humbert. In that case, after watching good girl, you should find some malt extract to drink, and after watching Ulysses, you can eat a bunch of roast lamb kidneys.

Among Hemingway's many works, she chose "Big River with Two Hearts", in which she wrote about soybeans and spaghetti. Hemingway's nonfiction work "The Flowing Feast" also contains descriptions of food: "I ate the oyster with strong fishy smell and light metallic taste, sipped the chilled white wine, leaving only the fishy smell and juicy oyster meat in my mouth. When I sucked the cold juice from each shell and swallowed it with fresh wine, I no longer felt that empty feeling, and began to feel happy and start making plans."

In addition to the pictures on the whole page, Dinah Fred also made many interesting notes on these novels and foods, such as "bananas rank fourth among the most widely eaten crops (the top three are wheat, rice and corn), and humans eat 1 billion bananas every year", "Italians consume 6 pounds of spaghetti per capita every year, six days a week, and a large plate every day", "According to Cornell University's

good girl

Swiss cheese and malt extract

Holden said, "When eating out, I usually only eat one serving of Swiss cheese and drink a glass of malt extract. Although the amount is not large, malt extract is rich in vitamins. In my name H.V. Caulfield, V stands for vitamin. " Malt cream is made from steamed barley malt, flour and whole milk. It is used to ferment bread and also to make biscuits, pancakes, malt balls, sweets and milkshakes.

Ulysses

Roasted lamb kidneys

Bloom likes to eat animal offal, rich chop suey soup, chicken and duck gizzards, stuffed roasted hearts ... especially roast lamb kidneys. Bloom drinks tea from a moustache cup, which was invented in the 196s and was very popular in the late Victorian era. Its cup mouth has a semi-circular platform so that people who drink tea will not get wet.

The Great Gatsby

Roast suckling pigs and turkeys

A large number of caterers come at least once every two weeks, carrying hundreds of feet of canvas and various colored lights. The buffet table is full of appetizers, smoked ham slices and various salads, as well as golden roast suckling pigs and turkeys.

Madame Bovary

Pagoda dessert

A plate of pagoda dessert served by the candy maker attracted a lot of applause. The bottom of the dessert is a box cut with blue cardboard. The porch and pillars on the box represent the temple. There are small statues around the temple, which are dotted with stars made of gold paper. The second floor is made of Sawa cake, surrounded by small castles made of candied fruit, almonds, raisins and orange petals; On the top floor is a green platform, on which several rocks stand in the lake made of jam, and there are boats made of dried fruit shells and a swinging little love god. The swing swing frame is made of chocolate and hung on the flower balls made of roses.

Moby Dick Melville

Seafood chop suey soup

Stir clams with biscuit crumbs, add sliced bacon, add enough butter, and then sprinkle with pepper noodles and salt. After a cold sea voyage, we were already hungry, and we couldn't help it when we saw our favorite seafood in front of us, and the bowl of seafood chop suey soup was so surprisingly delicious.

Metamorphosis

Cheese and bread

In order to try his taste, she brought all kinds of food and spread them on a newspaper: half-cooked vegetables, leftover bones from dinner, some raisins and almonds, a piece of cheese, a dry bread roll, some pieces of bread with cream and salt ...