Louisa May Alcott Post 2: plum pudding
Just like Thanksgiving, the history of plum pudding is anything but straightforward. It’s the cake of legends, some based in truth, others apocryphal…
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Louisa May Alcott Post 1: Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Louisa May Alcott’s idyllic Thanksgiving feast consists of a turkey that is burnt on one side, inedible catnip stuffing and a pudding as heavy as lead…
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Hilary Mantel Part 1: Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall contains a plethora of food references throughout the novel, reflecting everything from courtly excess to Lenten austerity…
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Washington Irving Part 2: oily koek
Oily koek are a precursor to that delicious American classic, the doughnut, and the first recipe appears in 1667 in a Dutch cookbook, De verstandige kock…
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Washington Irving Part 1: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is part romantic comedy, part horror story. It tells the tale of a love triangle quashed by the ghost of a Headless Horseman…
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