and drink from famous works of literature
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Food and Drink from Famous Works of Literature foodanddrinkguides.co.uk /blog/2016/06/12/food-and-drink-from-famous-works-of-literature/
Stephanie Hall
Food and Drink and Literature have had a long standing relationship, apart from the obvious reputation of manyauthors having a love of imbibing the odd alcoholic beverage or being prone to one indulgence or another.
Who hasn’t read a book and drooled over the vivid descriptions of fictional drinks and meals, whether it’s Butterbeeror Frobscottle, a Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight or Ichabod’s Slapjacks you were always left practicallylicking the page.
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr Seuss
“Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.”― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
Fact: The book contains only fifty words due to a bet with Seuss’ publisher that he could write a book for childrenunder 225 words (Cat in the Hat word count). The recipe contains ham, eggs, green food colouring, and cooking oil.
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Butterbeer – Harry Potter
“Why don’t we go and have a butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks, it’s a bit cold, isn’t it?”
—Hermione Granger inviting Harry Potter to the Three Broomsticks Inn
Fact: To keep deathly hallows from leaking early, bloomsbury gave it codenames. You probably wouldn’t have beenso interested in reading Edinburgh Potmakers or The Life and Times of Clara Rose Lovett: An Epic Novel CoveringMany Generations.
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Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
“Why not?” the fat shopkeeper said, reaching behind him again and taking another Whipple-ScrumptiousFudgemallow Delight from the shelf. He laid it on the counter. Charlie picked it up and tore off the wrapper…and suddenly… from underneath the wrapper… there came a brilliant flash of gold. Charlie’s heart stood still.
Fact: Chocolate espionage was a real thing. The chocolate spies who try to steal Willy Wonka’s inventions for rivalcandy makers were not entirely a product of Dahl’s imagination. In the 1920s, competition among chocolatiers wasso fierce that companies sent spies to steal each other’s innovations. Trade secrets were guarded and employeeswere monitored for suspicious activities. During Dahl’s childhood, the British candy firms Cadbury and Rowntree’sbecame such vicious competitors that stories about their spying became the stuff of legend.
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Ichabod’s Slapjacks Legend of Sleepy Hollow
” Farther on he (Ichabod) beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from hasty pudding; andthe yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects ofthe most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the odor of the beehive, andas he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slapjacks, well-buttered and garnished with honeyor treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel.”
Fact: in 1807, Washington Irving coined the term “Gotham” for New York City—it’s an Anglo-Saxon word meaning“Goat’s town.”
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Drink Me Potion Alice in Wonderland
“…so Alice ventured to taste it, and, finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard,pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off.”
Fact: Carroll saw things the way Alice did. In addition to partial deafness and other health complications, Carrollsuffered from a rare neurological disorder that causes hallucinations and makes objects appear larger or smallerthan they are. The disease wasn’t discovered until 1955 by English psychiatrist John Todd. Eventually, it wasnamed Alice in Wonderland Syndrome or Todd’s Syndrome.
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Lembas Lord of the Rings3/5
“We call it lembas or waybread, and it is more strengthening than any foods made by Men.”
Fact: Tolkien was a bit of a romantic at heart. At age 16, Tolkien fell in love with Edith Bratt, three years his senior.His guardian, a Catholic priest, was horrified that his ward was seeing a Protestant and ordered the boy to have nocontact with Edith until he turned 21. Tolkien obeyed, pining after Edith for years until that fateful birthday, when hemet with her under a railroad viaduct. She broke off her engagement to another man, converted to Catholicism, andthe two were married for the rest of their lives. At Tolkien’s instructions, their shared gravestone has the names“Beren” and “Luthien” engraved on it, a reference to a famous pair of star-crossed lovers from the fictional world hecreated.
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Frobscottle The BFG
“‘We is now having a swiggle of this delicious frobscottle and you will see the happy result.’ The BFG shook thebottle vigorously. The pale green stuff fizzed and bubbled.”
“And oh gosh, how delicious it was! It was sweet and refreshing. It tasted of vanilla and cream, with just the faintesttrace of raspberries on the edge of the flavour. And the bubbles with wonderful. Sophie could actually feel thembouncing and bursting all around her tummy.”
Fact: Roald Dahl wrote the screenplays for You Only Live Twice (the James Bond film) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang .
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Stephanie Hall
Steph is a frustrated writer trapped in the body of an idle procrastinator. When she's not atwork he likes planning for the apocalypse and has a secret penchant for tinned meats.
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