Food in Fiction is an article about how people use food from novels to better connect with the characters. The creators of Inn at the Crossroads talk about the use of food in the Game of Thrones series. Just so you know, I would rather eat horse heart than lamprey pie. Eww. Other book series mentioned are The Boxcar Children and Little House on the Prairie.
In a more health-conscious, and less active age, it's hard to imagine eating that way, or needing to eat that way because you're burning so many calories through physical labor--and it's hard to imagine what it must be like to do the kind of work the characters in the Little House books do without reliably having enough to eat. But even though cooking her way through Little House recipes revealed Laura Ingalls Wilder's fantasies, and even though Ma's vanity cakes turned out to be just fairgrounds-variety fried dough, McClure says there was something powerful about eating the food that Laura ate.
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