Kafka’s Soup - A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes
As recommended in The Guardian:
“Some people read recipe books in bed, others look out for descriptions of food in novels and a few talk to themselves in funny voices while they cook. This illustrated masterpiece of pastiche satisfies all three audiences by presenting a ‘complete history of literature in 17 recipes’. In Crick’s world of literary ventriloquism, Pinter prepares chesse on toast in a single act, Jane Austin’s eggs are in need of a socially advantaeous match and Irvine Walsh’s protagonist staves off the hard stuff for long enough to make a chocolate cake. Raymond Chandler’s lamb with dill sauce - ‘I need a table at Maxim’s. a hundred bucks and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was aleg of lamb and no clues’ - is particularily good, regardless of how dangerous it might be to make”
One for the Christmas list, perhaps?
Available from Amazon.co.uk
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this was my favourite give-away last xmas… a fabulous book for anything whose ever read any world literature. some of the stories just cracked me up. fantastic book, great stocking filler!