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  The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter, 1902. Peter, a naughty young rabbit, defies his mother by sneaking into Mr. McGregor’s garden, where he eats too many vegetables, winds up with a bad stomachache, and almost gets killed by Mr. McGregor.

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  To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960. The story of Scout Finch, a young white girl living in the South during the Great Depression, whose lawyer father takes on a case defending a black man against a rape charge, causing the town to erupt in violent controversy.

  To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927. The story of the Ramsay family and their visits to their summer home on the Isle of Skye, this novel uses stream-of-consciousness and changing perspectives as a means to examine time, emotional interiority, and human relationships.

  Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922. This epic novel follows Leopold Bloom’s journey on a single ordinary day as events bring him into contact with another truth-seeker, the younger Stephen Dedalus.

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  A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle, 1962. The adventures of teenager Meg Murry, who travels through space and time with her brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O’Keefe in search of her missing scientist father.

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Many wonderful people have helped make this book possible. Special thanks to the writers, without whose words this book would not have been possible.

  My thanks to everyone—family, friends, classmates, colleagues, and even strangers—who have not only supported Fictitious Dishes with great enthusiasm and voracious appetites but have also given me countless recommendations for new photos to take and new books to read. Thank you to Rob Giampietro, who encouraged me to begin this project in the first place. Many thanks to my research assistant, Rhiannon Marino, for indulging my love of minutiae, and to Juan Zambrano, for his amazing photo retouching work. Thank you to the dedicated and talented team at HarperCollins: Marta Schooler, Lynne Yeamans, Susan Kosko, Julie Hersh, Stephen Frankel, and particularly my superb editor and friend, Liz Sullivan, for her spirited collaboration and intense commitment to this book from the very beginning.

  Thank you and love to my father, for teaching me to read carefully, and to my mother, for teaching me to look closely.

  Finally, my gratitude and love to Joe, whose deep belief in this book, and me, is unwavering, and who inspires and encourages me to make better work every day.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  DINAH FRIED is a designer, writer, and amateur table-setter. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and her work has been widely recognized and featured in The Guardian, the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The New Yorker, Bon Appétit, National Public Radio, Andrew Sullivan’s blog “The Dish,” and Print. Her clients and collaborators include the Rhode Island School of Design, Chronicle Books, Etruscan Press, Persea Books, Oxford University Press, and the School of Visual Arts. She was featured in Graphic Design USA as a “person to watch” in 2012. She lives in San Francisco.

  COPYRIGHT

  Cover design and photography by Dinah Fried

  FICTITIOUS DISHES

  An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals

  Copyright © 2014 Dinah Fried

  FICTITIOUS DISHES. Copyright © 2014 by Dinah Fried. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Page 12: Top row, left: William Sharp, from
Heidi by Johanna Spyri. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1945; Top row, center: George Cruikshank, from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Middle row, left: Sir John Tenniel, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. London: Macmillan and Co, 1865; Middle row, right: Beatrix Potter, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1902. Bottom row, right: J.J. Grandville, from Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships (Gulliver’s Travels) by Jonathan Swift. London: Hayward and Moore, 1840.

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