In Part 16 of Food in Literature, Helen brings together extracts from novels by Georgette Heyer and Bruce Chatwin. You may wonder what can link the novels of two such different authors.
The answer, Helen tells us lies in Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer and Utz by Bruce Chatwin, and the response of their eponymous protagonists to gourmet food served in less than congenial circumstances.
Read on here.
Food in Literature
• Food in Literature: Part 1
The Avignon Quintet, Moby Dick, Sister Age
• Food in Literature: Part 2
William Carries On, Poems: This is just to say,
The Avignon Quintet
• Food in Literature: Part 3
The Leopard, The Bell Jar, A Room of One's Own,
Madame Bovary
• Food in Literature: Part 4
Cooking with Fernet Branca, The Sea, The Sea
• Food in Literature: Part 5
Time Regained, "Oysters" by Seamus Heaney
• Food in Literature: Part 6
American Pastoral
• Food in Literature: Part 7
A Passage to India, London Fields
• Food in Literature: Part 8
Alice in Wonderland, Pentimento,
The Joy of Cooking, Kitchen Essays
• Food in Literature: Part 9
The Gate of Angels, The Cut Glass Bowl
• Food in Literature: Part 10
The Magic Mountain,
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
• Food in Literature: Part 11
Martin Chuzzlewit
• Food in Literature: Part 12
Expiation, The Last Chronicle of Barset,`
As They Were, Martin Chuzzlewit
• Food in Literature: Part 13
Shuggie Bain
• Food in Literature: Part 14
The Cold Table, The Raj Quartet,
Kitchen Essays, With Bold Knife and Fork,
Unnatural Death, The Importance of Being Earnest
• Food in Literature: Part 15
Lessons in Chemistry, The Debt to Pleasure
• Food in Literature: Part 16
Cousin Kate, Utz
• Cheese in Literature
The Debt to Pleasure, Sonnet to a Stilton Cheese
Treasure Island
• The Food of Love
Barbara Cartland
Queen Elizabeth I
• In the bleak midwinter 1
The Pickwick Papers
December with the Ladies of Llangollen
Christmas with the Savages
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
• In the bleak midwinter 2
Wind in the Willows, The Balkan Trilogy
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Other literary material
• Lockdown with Helen Garlick
• From the Back of the Shelf
Other reading
• A Year in Chicken Soup
• A Landlady's Diary
Book readings
• A Cheesemonger's history of the British Isles
• An Indian Table
• Beyond Bratwurst
• Bitter Honey
• Countryman's Cooking
• "Done, Finished, You Lose It"
• Dumas on Food
• Edward Trencome's Nose
• European Peasant Cookery
• Honey from a Weed
• Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More
• Kafka's Soup
• Kitchen Essays
• La Vita è Dolce
• Life is Meals
• Med: A Cookbook
• Mrs Cromwell's Cookbook
• My American Kitchen Notes
• My Place at the Table
• One More Croissant for the Road
• Orchards in the Oasis
• Relish: My Life on a Plate
• Scotland to Shalimar
• Squirrel Pie and Other Stories
• Summer in the Islands
• Summer Kitchens
• Table Talk
• The Game Cook
• The Perfect Egg
• The Recipe: the dish that saved my bacon
• The Table Comes First
Interviews with the authors
• Adam Gopnik
• Elisabeth Luard
• Josceline Dimbleby
• Matthew Fort
• Norman Tebbit
