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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271) and index.

Part I: Childhood. Little house in the big woods : Breakfast sausage -- "Hansel and Gretel" : Gingerbread cake with blood orange syrup -- In the night kitchen : Scalded and malted milk cake -- Nancy Drew : Double chocolate walnut sundae -- If you give a mouse a cookie : Brown butter chocolate chip cookies -- The Indian in the cupboard : Grilled roast beef -- The boxcar children : Chocolate pudding -- Pippi Longstocking : Buttermilk pancakes -- Anne of Green Gables : Salted chocolate caramels -- Homer Price : Old-fashioned sour cream donuts -- The witches : Mussel, shrimp, and cod stew -- The secret garden : Currant buns -- Charlotte's web : Pea and bacon soup -- Where the red fern grows : Skillet cornbread with honey butter -- Strega Nona : Black pepper-Parmesan pasta -- "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" : Buckwheat pancakes -- Part II: Adolescence and college years. To kill a mockingbird : Biscuits with molasses butter -- Lord of the flies : Porchetta di testa -- The catcher in the rye : Malted milk ice cream -- The bell jar : Crab-stuffed avocados -- Rebecca : Blood orange marmalade -- Les Misérables : Black rye bread -- Great expectations : Pork pie -- Moby-Dick : Clam chowder -- Down and out in Paris and London : Rib-eye steak -- Pride and prejudice : White garlic soup -- The silence of the lambs : Crostini with fava bean and chicken liver mousses -- Middlesex : Olive oil yogurt cake -- Brideshead revisited : Blinis with caviar -- The corrections : Chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream frosting -- The Aeneid : Honey-poppy seed cake -- Mrs. Dalloway : Chocolate éclairs -- Anna Karenina : Oysters and cucumber mignonette -- Part III: Adulthood. The bluest eye : Concord grape sorbet -- A confederacy of dunces : Jelly donuts -- The dog start : Whole roasted trout -- The hours : Birthday cake -- "Goodbye to all that" : Grilled peaches with homemade ricotta -- American pastoral : Hot cheese sandwich -- Emma : Perfect soft-boiled egg -- "The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" : Goat cheese pumpkin pie -- In cold blood : Cherry pie -- The little friend : Peppermint stick ice cream -- "Gimpel the fool" : Challah -- In the woods : Chocolate-covered digestive biscuits -- Sometimes a great notion : Blackberry-hazelnut coffee cake -- Gone girl : Bron butter crêpes -- The Odyssey : Red wine-rosemary bread -- "The best girlfriend you never had" : Red flannel hash -- The secret history : Wine-braised leg of lamb with wild mushrooms.