Anna Shapiro

“Literature is nourishment. It is brain food, food for character, mood-altering. It feeds the starved soul as well as the merely bored one” writes Anna Shapiro in the beginning of this terrific look at “how food is used to tell stories.” Shapiro’s deft and sometimes lyrical words provide the perfect accompaniment to this collection of recipes inspired by fiction. As she herself notes, “this is a book to read as well as cook from”, and I enjoyed her comments (at times show more acerbically witty) on the literary works she examines as much as the recipes she presents. This is a wonderfully enjoyable book that appealed to both my culinary curiosity and my love of literature. show less

Cooking/literature