Literary Recipes Archives

Jane Austen Apple Puffs

Jane Austen wrote what she knew. She was raised as a member of the landed gentry, a British social class made up of landowners whoRead More

Mary Poppins Zodiac Cake

A recipe for chocolate Zodiac Cake from a little-known cookbook written by P.L. Travers – Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookbook with a Story.Read More

The Hemingway Special

This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship whenRead More

Prohibition, The Great Gatsby and The Bee’s Knees

F. Scott Fitzgerald circa 1920. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, and what F. Scott Fitzgerald would later describe as “the greatest,Read More

Fried Green Tomatoes

The place was jam-packed full of railroad men at lunchtime, so Grady Kilgore went to the kitchen door and hollered in, “Fix me a messRead More

Anne of Green Gables Raspberry Cordial

When I was a kid, my step-grandma bought me a set of books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Toots (that’s her nickname) was born in Canada,Read More

Cucumber Rye Tea Sandwiches from “The Help”

In Oscar nominated film “The Help” director Tate Taylor, a Jackson native, wanted authentically Southern food to dress his set. He decided to recruit realRead More

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Molasses Cookies

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House book series, was one of the first great food writers I ever encountered. As an avid youngRead More

What Emily Dickinson Ate – Coconut Cake

God gave a Loaf to every Bird — But just a Crumb — to Me — I dare not eat it — tho’ I starveRead More