Here's another of those 'food from books' books! A Literary Feast: Recipes Inspired By Novels, Poems and Plays, by Jennifer Barclay. The passage or poem that inspired the recipe is included, which is what I enjoyed but I'll admit that the recipes looked too complicated for me! (I know many of you who cook will laugh at this). :-)

If you love mysteries and cooking then here's just the book for you: The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, edited by Kate White. There are "wickedly good recipes" from too many authors to mention and even one from the fictional Richard Castle, author of the Nikki Heat mysteries on the TV show Castle.

And finally: The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them, by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen. Again, there are excerpts from books, or bits of poetry that inspired the various recipes, but unlike A Literary Feast, this time I just read those (sometimes trying to guess where the excerpt was from) and skipped reading the recipes. ;-)

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