From Ernest Hemingway's perfect hamburger to Beatrix Potter's home-made gingerbread, The Writer's Table presents 50 of the world's best-loved authors' favourite recipes.
In the style of books including A Room of One's Own and Writer's Letters, The Writer's Table provides a glimpse into the daily lives, routines and eccentricities of famous creatives. Each recipe is accompanied by a short introduction to the dish and its author, and provides practical instructions and up-to-date ingredients for you to make the dish yourself. Small, accessible and giftable, it's the perfect collection for lovers of food and literature.
Writers and recipes featured to include:
Harper Lee's Crackling Bread
Anna Tolstoy's Russian Mint Cookies
Sylvia Plath's Tomato Soup Cake Emily Dickinson's Coconut Cake Allen Ginsburg's Cold Summer Borscht Nora Ephron's Crab Dip Edgar Allen Poe's Egg Nog
By:
Valerie Stivers Illustrated by:
Katie Tomlinson Imprint: Frances Lincoln Publisher Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 225mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 730g ISBN:9780711293915 ISBN 10: 0711293910 Pages: 192 Publication Date:01 October 2025 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
TOC 6 Introduction: Eat Your Words 8 Maya Angelou 15 Jane Austen 19 Honore de Balzac 23 ltalo Calvino 27 Andrea Camilleri 31 Truman Capote 35 Miguel de Cervantes 39 Paul Coehlo 41 Writers' Favourite Cocktails 43 Colette 49 Laurie Colwin 53 Roald Dahl 56 Charles Dickens 63 Emily Dickinson 66 Joan Didion 73 Alexandre Dumas 76 Gerald Durrell 81 The Perfect Writer's Luncheon: Irving Stone's cheese sandwich 83 F. Scott Fitzgerald 87 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 91 Ernest Hemingway 95 Zora Neale Hurston 99 Franz Kafka 103 Han Kang 107 Jack Kerouac 111 D.H. Lawrence 115 Thomas Mann 118 Gabriel Garcia Marquez 123 Writers Who Didn't Eat Proper Meals 125 Edna St. Vincent Millay 129 Haruki Murakami 133 The Six Greatest Dishes in Literature 137 Iris Murdoch 141 Vladimir Nabokov 145 Pablo Neruda 149 Flannery O'Connor 153 George Orwell 157 Sylvia Plath 161 The Best Writing Snack According to Six Writers 163 Barbara Pym 166 George Sand 171 The Donkey Skin Cake 173 Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas 177 Leo Tolstoy 181 Laura Ingalls Wilder 185 W.B. Yeats 188 Index 191 Acknowledgements
