“[Bilbo] had a horrible thought that the cakes might run short, and then he—as the host…might have to go without.” If there’s one thing I know from twenty years of Tolkien nerdom, it’s that hobbits like to eat. After all, they were the ones who decided that breakfast and lunch were too far apart ...
Wild Tomato Soup
"I ate with my spoon in one hand and a book in the other." Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that Cheryl Strayed’s Wild is a strange choice for a literary food post, mostly because Cheryl spends much of the novel forcing herself to eat protein bars and unappetizing packets of freeze-dried food. I ...
A Particularly Delicious Lemon Cake
Because the goodness of the ingredients—the fine chocolate, the freshest lemons—seemed like a cover over something larger and darker… Let me start by saying that I’ve never really liked cake. While other girls dream of three-tiered wedding cakes with fondant flowers, I imagine sitting by a ...