Tuck in to a literary feast!

Books and Food – what else can we say? What else is there to say quite frankly? Here at the booktrail, we eat books. Devour them. Even love to sniff them from time to time such is the obsession with the paged beauties. Books are almost edible, the stories in them good enough to eat!

A literary feast (c) the booktrail

So what about the meals that actually feature in the stories? Ah from the very moment that Oliver Twist asks for more ( and we learned what gruel was) there are so many dishes of delectable literary snacks, meals and desserts.

So imagine our joy when we discovered this tasty gem of a book – literally eating your way through books …. Jennifer Barclay has now served up snippets of literary delectability, with the fragrances and emotions that all food can bring. In  the words of Virginia Woolf –

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Some books make us hungry – Edmund’s Turkish delight in the Narnia stories, the sumptuous feasts of Alice in Wonderland, the chocolat of Joanne Harris and the Canadian delights of Anne of Green Gables (although go easy on the raspberry cordial) you remember what happened to Diana…..

With recipes for many meals, snacks, deserts and starters, the book would be a very handy companion to helping you out when you’re reading a novel and get hungry.

It did get us thinking however of which books we’re read recently that we would literally love to eat however…..

*The taste of olives and olive oil as ‘tasted’ in Jo Thomas’s book – Olive Branch

*A Saffron recipe as found in Rosanna Ley’s The Saffron Trail

*Anything made with the honey in Laline Paull’s ‘The Bees’

Jennifer Barclay has written a book for all tastes!