Thursday, March 30, 2017

Book Food

Another great post over at the Vintage Séance blog.  Food inspired from literature.  A spread based on the one in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow would probably make me weep openly if I saw it at a Halloween party.

Still wanting Yoda's Stew, Blade Runner Noodles, and any potion made by Grandpa Munster...

Click below:

http://vintageseance.blogspot.com/2017/03/literary-inspiration.html

7 comments:

Sara said...

This concept is very cool. I'm going to have to fall down that rabbit hole at some point!

Rot said...

From The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole family of cakes. And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst-- Heaven bless the mark! I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story. Happily, Ichabod Crane was not in so great a hurry as his historian, but did ample justice to every dainty.

Anonymous said...

Dammit, now I'm hungry.

I think there should be a Pumpkinrot Halloween get together with all this fine food. :D

Sara said...

Ichabod Crane is my husband's spirit animal, lol. You know I've read Sleepy Holliw twice. I need to find this passage....
I'm intrigued by the Roald Dahl menu!

girl6 said...

gahhhhhh...that passage!!!!!
i can just smell the lovely & feel the warmth of it all. i DIG eating. especially, down home classics, like the real good stuff. i love roasted foods & old school desserts. man, i bet those doughnuts were divine. now i'm craving some hot apple pie with a nice scoop of vanilla ice cream. ugggghhhhh!!!

the other one that caught my eye was the..Jekyll & Hyde..hahahahaha!!!! can you just imagine the creativity & fun. i'm sucha sucker for anything Victorian.

there's a local restaurant in Olde City Philly. called the City Tavern (wayyyyyyy $$$$$$$$) but they actually serve all colonial foods of the day by preparing them 100% authentically (spices etc) it's a neat looking place too. no refrigerators even.

i think the best pancakes i ever had were at a tiny little kinda dumpy place in Salem, Mass. ahhhhhh man!!!.

Hal9thou said...

Rootleaf, I grow! https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/yodas-rootleaf-stew-by-craig-claiborne/177787

Vintage Seance said...

Aw thanks for sharing Rot! I always appreciate it :) I just thought Bryt's blog was such a fun concept, so glad I found it! And yummy, Girl6, I wanna know which place you had those pancakes for whenever I can visit Salem one of these days, haha.