Bei Xiaorong's "Six Delicacies in Novel"

Red wine braised beef in "To the Lighthouse", roast suckling pig in "The Great Gatsby", "Gone with the Wind" The buttered sweet potatoes in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the soil in "One Hundred Years of Solitude"... American writer and designer Dinah Fried cooked and photographed all the delicacies that impressed her deeply in the novel.

Dinah Fried extracted food described in many novels and wrote "The Novel Table". She said in the preface: "Reading and eating are natural partners, and they have many similarities. Reading and eating are both consumption, making people feel comfortable and relaxed, and both have nourishing effects. Great enjoyment. They can make you feel refreshed or drowsy. Big books and large meals take a while to digest. Reading great novels can transport you to another time and place, and so can food. You experience it away from the table. "Reading a book about food is a double treat.

Reading novels can help us understand the lives of others, including what others eat and how they feel after eating. If you love Wujiwu, you may also like a certain food because you like a certain book or a certain protagonist. Dinah Fried said that after reading "Lolita" a friend of hers started drinking gin and pineapple juice together because that was the favorite drink of the storyteller, Humbert. In this case, you should drink some malted milk after watching "Catcher in the Rye", and eat a bunch of roasted lamb kidneys after watching "Ulysses".

Among Hemingway's many works, she chose "The Big Two-Hearted River", which talks about soybeans and spaghetti. Hemingway's non-fiction work "A Moveable Feast" is also full of descriptions of food: "I ate the oysters, which had a strong smell of sea and a faint metallic taste, while sipping ice-cold white wine, leaving only the sea in my mouth. The fishy smell and juicy oyster meat, when I sucked the cold juice from each shell and drank it down with the refreshing wine, I no longer felt empty, began to feel happy and started to Plans are made."

In addition to the full-page illustrations, Dinah Fried also provides many interesting notes on these novels and foods, such as "Among the most widely consumed crops by humans, bananas Ranking fourth (the top three are wheat, rice and corn), humans eat 100 billion bananas every year." "Italians consume 60 pounds of pasta per capita every year, eating 6 days a week, a large plate every day." "According to According to research from Cornell University, eating soil can protect the stomach from certain toxins, parasites and pathogens."

"The Catcher in the Rye"

Swiss cheese and wheat milk. Jing

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

"Ulysses"

Roasted Lamb Kidneys

Bloom likes to eat animal offal, rich offal soup, chewy chicken gizzards and duck Gizzards, stuffed roasted hearts...especially roasted lamb kidneys. Bloom drinks tea from a mustached cup, which was invented in the 1860s and became popular in the late Victorian era. There is a semicircular platform at the mouth of the cup to prevent tea drinkers from getting their mustaches wet.

"The Great Gatsby"

Roast suckling pig and turkey

A large number of caterers come at least once every two weeks, bringing hundreds of feet of canvas and an assortment of colorful lights. The buffet table was filled with a dazzling array of appetizers, slices of smoked ham piled with assorted salads, and golden roasted suckling pig and turkey.

"Madame Bovary"

Pagoda-style desserts

The confectioner brought a plate of pagoda-style desserts to a round of applause.

The bottom layer of the dessert is a square frame cut from blue cardboard. The porch and pillars on the frame represent the temple. There are small statues of gods around the temple, dotted with stars made of gold paper; the second layer is made of Sava cakes. The bottom is surrounded by small castles made of candied fruits, almonds, raisins and orange segments; the top floor is a green platform with several rocks standing in a lake made of jam, and there are boats and boats made of dried fruit shells. A little cupid swinging on a swing made of chocolate and hanging on a flower ball made of roses.

"Moby Dick" Melville

Seafood offal soup

Stir together the clams and biscuit crumbs, add thinly sliced ??bacon, and Add enough butter, then sprinkle with pepper and salt. After a cold sea voyage, we were already hungry. When we saw our favorite seafood in front of us, we couldn't hold it back any longer, and the bowl of seafood offal soup was so surprisingly delicious.

"Metamorphosis"

Cheese, bread

In order to try his taste, she brought a variety of food and spread them out On a newspaper: half-cooked leftover vegetables, leftover bones from dinner, a few raisins and almonds, a piece of cheese, a dry roll, a few pieces of buttered and salted bread... His eyes were filled with tears. With tears of joy, I devoured the cheese, vegetables and sauce in no time, one thing after another.