Literary Feast

Read the passage. Cook the meal.

Every meal in the public-domain canon, paired with a recipe printed by a cook of roughly the same era. Both quoted verbatim from the source. Nothing here is invented: the passages were found by machine and carried through by character offset, and the recipes come straight out of cookbooks you can read for free.

1188 entries989 works swept 24 period cookbooks400–1909 AD
GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUELFRANÇOIS RABELAISGargantua and Pantagruel ENGLISH ECCENTRICS AND ECCJOHN TIMBSEnglish Eccentrics and Eccentric MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOMFREDERICK DOUGLASSMy Bondage and My Freedom GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUELFRANÇOIS RABELAISGargantua and Pantagruel ULYSSESJAMES JOYCEUlysses GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUELFRANÇOIS RABELAISGargantua and Pantagruel DUBLINERSJAMES JOYCEDubliners GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUELFRANÇOIS RABELAISGargantua and Pantagruel TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH A HUDSON STUCKTen Thousand Miles with a Dog Sl MADAME BOVARYGUSTAVE FLAUBERTMadame Bovary THE WHEEL OF EARTHHELGA SANDBURGThe wheel of earth THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY T. (TOBIAS) SMOLLETTThe Expedition of Humphry Clinke THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTUNKNOWNThe Thousand and One Nights, Vol THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROODCHARLES DICKENSThe Mystery of Edwin Drood DAVID COPPERFIELDCHARLES DICKENSDavid Copperfield THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLYROBERT BURTONThe Anatomy of Melancholy MADAME BOVARY: A TALE OF PGUSTAVE FLAUBERTMadame Bovary: A Tale of Provinc BY ADVICE OF COUNSELARTHUR CHENEY TRAINBy Advice of Counsel THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY T. (TOBIAS) SMOLLETTThe Expedition of Humphry Clinke THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTUNKNOWNThe Thousand and One Nights, Vol THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF LONG. E. (GERALDINE EDITH) MITTONThe Children's Book of London THE SATYRICON — COMPLETEPETRONIUS ARBITERThe Satyricon — Complete GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUELFRANÇOIS RABELAISGargantua and Pantagruel THE HEATHER-MOONC. N. (CHARLES NORRIS) WILLIAMSONThe Heather-Moon THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL: WICHARLES DALTONThe Waterloo Roll Call: With Bio NICHOLAS NICKLEBYCHARLES DICKENSNicholas Nickleby A WOMAN WHO WENT TO ALASKAMAY KELLOGG SULLIVANA Woman who went to Alaska THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOWASHINGTON IRVINGThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Bindings are ours. Almost every one of these books was issued in plain publisher's cloth — the first Moby-Dick had no whale on it anywhere.