Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals

Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals

Dinah Fried • HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN-10: 006227984X · ISBN-13: 978‑0062279842 · 2014

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Dinah Fried's 'Fictitious Dishes' is a photographic exploration of literary gastronomy, featuring 50 iconic meals from classic literature. Each spread pairs a meticulously staged photograph of a fictional meal—ranging from the madeleine in Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' to the gruel in Dickens's 'Oliver Twist'—with the original excerpt and a brief commentary on the dish's narrative significance. It serves as both a visual homage to the power of descriptive writing and a creative culinary reference.

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