#cookingthroughfiction

Cooking Through Fiction: Smoked Salmon and Bacon Paté

Have you ever noticed that when people travel through time or space, they don’t seem to be preoccupied with food or travel snacks? I would n

Cooking Through Fiction: Cinnamon-Sugar Candied Pecans

Are you tempted by hand-painted signs offering sweet treats, homegrown fruits and vegetables, or boiled peanuts? Next time you see one, slow

Cooking Through Fiction: Lost Lake's Ham and Cheese Puff Pastry

Feeling that tug to return home, to breathe in the air of your childhood? Grab a ham and cheese puff pastry, take a walk down to the lake, a

Cooking Through Fiction: Emma's Fruity Pebbles Sweet Rolls

These Fruity Pebbles Sweet Rolls create nostalgia in the hearts of whoever eats one. They cause you to close your eyes, breathe deeply, and

Cooking Through Fiction: Snicket’s Lemony Blueberry Sweet Rolls

When you have a lot of questions, as Lemony Snicket always does, it's best to ponder the answers over a warm batch of Lemony Blueberry S

Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": Oreo Christmas Truffles

If you can’t immediately recall when laughter burst from your smile, then you need to stop by Bea’s Bakery in Mystic Water and order at leas

Cooking Through Fiction: Extraordinary Apple Pop-Tarts

Alice Hoffman's A Museum of Extraordinary Things reveals the compassion of those who see the extraordinary everywhere, even in people wh

Cooking Through Fiction: Snicket's Chicken Pesto Pasta

Lemony Snicket asks a lot of questions, but my favorite question is "What are we eating?" So...what ARE we eating?

Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": Forget-Me-Not Cookies

There are several legends surrounding the naming of the flower Forget-Me-Not, each one romantic and lovely in its own way. Anna, in The Bake