literary cookbooks

The ten-year-old detective solves "The Case of the Missing Garlic Bread" and other food-related mysteries. Includes menus and recipes for a Fourth-of-July party and other occasions.

A collection of recipes for cookies, cakes, and candies with a nursery theme including Peter Rabbit's Carrot Bars, Humpty Dumpty's Peanut Brittle, and the Queen of Hearts' Jam Tarts.

Features recipes and discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, with contributions from many of the books' authors, as well as profiles of book clubs across the country that are integrating food into their meetings.

More than fifty delicious, healthy recipes with allusions to works of children's literature and cooking tips. Sample items: Babar's Carob French Toast, Shakespeare's Breakfast Sandwiches, Rumpelstiltskin's Pillow, and Bambi's Salad Bowl.

Presents original recipes by Laura Ingalls Wilder, adapted for contemporary cooks from the Little House stories, for such American dishes as pancakes, sausage balls, strawberry jam, homemade butter, buttermilk cornbread, maplecakes, cookies, and lemonade.

Discusses the phenomenon of afternoon tea and provides recipes for muffins, pastries, and other appropriate fare, punctuated by quotations from the works of A. A. Milne.

Recipes based on the pioneer food written about in the "Little House" books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, along with quotes from the books and descriptions of the food and cooking of pioneer times.

A practical guide to making such treats as: Willy Wonka's nutty crunch, George's marvelous medicine chicken soup, hair toffee to make hair grow on bald men, hot ice cream for cold days, candy-coated pencils for sucking in class that were featured in several of Roald Dahl's stories.

Describes the preparation and serving of foods during three time periods in American history: 1854, 1904, and 1944. Includes recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals.