From the Book - First edition.
Part I: Childhood. Little house in the big woods: Breakfast sausage
"Hansel and Gretel": Gingerbread cake with blood orange syrup
In the night kitchen: Scalded and malted milk cake
Nancy Drew: Double chocolate walnut sundae
If you give a mouse a cookie: Brown butter chocolate chip cookies
The Indian in the cupboard: Grilled roast beef
The boxcar children: Chocolate pudding
Pippi Longstocking: Buttermilk pancakes
Anne of Green Gables: Salted chocolate caramels
Homer Price: Old-fashioned sour cream donuts
The witches: Mussel, shrimp, and cod stew
The secret garden: Currant buns
Charlotte's web: Pea and bacon soup
Where the red fern grows: Skillet cornbread with honey butter
Strega Nona: Black pepper-Parmesan pasta
"The legend of Sleepy Hollow": Buckwheat pancakes
Part II: Adolescence and college years. To kill a mockingbird: Biscuits with molasses butter
Lord of the flies: Porchetta di testa
The catcher in the rye: Malted milk ice cream
The bell jar: Crab-stuffed avocados
Rebecca: Blood orange marmalade
Les misérables: Black rye bread
Great expectations: Pork pie
Down and out in Paris and London: Rib-eye steak
Pride and prejudice: White garlic soup
The silence of the lambs: Crostini with fava bean and chicken liver mousses
Middlesex: Olive oil yogurt cake
Brideshead revisited: Blinis with caviar
The corrections: Chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream frosting
The Aeneid: Honey-poppy seed cake
Mrs. Dalloway: Chocolate éclairs
Anna Karenina: Oysters and cucumber mignonette
Part III: Adulthood. The bluest eye: Concord grape sorbet
A confederacy of dunces: Jelly donuts
The dog stars: Whole roasted trout
"Goodbye to all that": Grilled peaches with homemade ricotta
American pastoral: Hot cheese sandwich
Emma: Perfect soft-boiled egg
"The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether": Goat cheese pumpkin pie
In cold blood: Cherry pie
The little friend: Peppermint stick ice cream
"Gimpel the fool": Challah
In the woods: Chocolate-covered digestive biscuits
Sometimes a great notion: Blackberry-hazelnut coffee cake
Gone girl: Brown butter crêpes
The Odyssey: Red wine-rosemary bread
"The best girlfriend you never had": Red flannel hash
The secret history: Wine-braised leg of lamb with wild mushrooms.
