Back in early 2015, the second year of this blog, I wrote about ‘bread’ in literature, focusing on one of the earliest novels in English, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719. Continue reading “Bread – take 2”
Category: The Novel
Counting calories in literature
However delicious food is, it comes with one significant downside for some of us, namely weight gain. The anxiety about eating – and putting on weight – is one usually (though not exclusively) experienced more by women than men, as a result of the societal pressures placed on women to maintain a particular body weight and shape. Continue reading “Counting calories in literature”
Food and loss
Jyoti Patel’s debut novel, The things that we lost, explores the idea of loss in a number of different ways. Continue reading “Food and loss”
A literary and culinary translation
From the earliest times stories have been translated into other languages, adapted into different contexts and rewritten to suit a new place, time and readership. From Chaucer borrowing from the works of the Italian writers Boccaccio and Petrarch for many of his Canterbury Tales to Shakespeare’s plundering of historical records and ancient tales, where stories are concerned there is ‘nothing new under the sun’. Continue reading “A literary and culinary translation”