Recipe for murder : frightfully good food inspired by fiction / Esterelle Payany ; illustrations by Jean-Francois Martin ; [translated from the French by Magda Schmit].
Translated from the French. "Originally published in French as Les criminels passent à table"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-140) and index.
Contents:
The delicacy of crime -- Ernest: Evolution man, or, How I ate my father / Roy Lewis: Recipe: Open-face marrowbone sandwiches -- Cyclops: The Odyssey / Homer: Recipe: Cyclops-style shoulder of lamb -- Medea: Medea / Euripides -- Brutus: The lives of the twelve Caesars / Suctonius: Recipe: The real Caesar salad -- Agrippina: Annals / Tacitus: Recipe: Agrippina's mushrooms -- Lady Macbeth: Macbeth / William Shakespeare: Recipe: Lady Macbeth's possets -- Iago: Othello / William Shakespeare: Recipe: Othello cake -- Snow White's stepmother: Snow White / The Brothers Grimm: Recipe: Bewitching caramel apples -- The ogre: Hop-o'-My-Thumb / Charles Perrault: Recipe: Beef paupiettes stuffed with bacon -- The Big Bad Wolf: Little Red Riding Hood / Charles Perrault, and The three little pigs: Recipe: Pigs in a blanket -- The Count de Gernande: Justine or "Good conduct well chastised" / Donatien de Sade: Recipe: Chocolate marquis cake -- Colomba: Colomba / Prosper Merimee: Recipe: Mini Corsican cheesecakes -- Milady: The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas: Recipe: Chicken chaudfroid -- Lisa Quenu: The fat and the thin / Emile Zola : Recipe: Madame Francois' bacon and thyme omelet -- The Queen of Hearts: Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll: Recipe: Treacle tart -- Stavrogin: The possessed (The devils) / Fyodor Dostoveevsky: Recipe: Russian cutlets -- Long John Silver: Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson: Recipe: Sea biscuits -- Edward Hyde: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson: Recipe: Beet in a salt crust -- Ubu: Ubu Rex / Alfred Jarry: Recipe: Buckwheat crepes with sausages -- Dracula: Dracula / Bram Stoker: Recipe: Paprika hendl -- Arsene Lupin: 813 / Maurice Leblanc: Recipe: Atlenheim's deadly cakes -- Fantomas: The lost train / Pierre Souvestre and Michel Allain: Recipe: Truffled eggs without truffles -- Tom Ripley: The talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith: Recipe: Venetian lemon chicken -- Ennemonde: Ennemonde: a novel / Jean Giono: Recipe: Provencal beef stew -- Cathy Ames: East of Eden / John Steinbeck: Recipe: Cathy's dead bean salad -- Mary Maloney: "Lamb to the slaughter" / Roald Dahl: Recipe: Leg of lamb with green peas -- Anton Vowl's abductor: A void / George Perce -- Recipe: Blackcurrant parfait -- Hannibal Lecter: The silence of the lambs / Thomas Harris: Recipe: Hannibal's express sweet breads -- Patrick Bateman: American psycho / Bret Easton Ellis: Recipe: Roast beef with truffled mashed potatoes -- Pretextat Tach: Hygiene and the assassin / Amelie Nothomb: Recipe: Alexander with condensed milk -- Blake / Manzoni: Malavita encore / Tonino Benacquista: Recipe: Maggie's eggplant Parmesan -- Address book -- Recipe index -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
A collection of thirty-two recipes inspired by fictional villains, with each recipe accompanied by an excerpt featuring the characters.
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