Recipes for Literature: Daphne du Maurier’s Cheddar Chive Tea-Time Scones

By Cara Nicoletti The other day it poured. Cold, beating, half-snow December rain. After showering off the chill when I got home, I flopped down on my bed and prepared to sleep the rest of the afternoon away. But instead, I looked up at my bookshelf and noticed a copy of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, a novel I hadn’t read since the ninth grade. My mom put a copy of it on my pillow all those years ago in an […]

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Recipes for Literature: Clam Chowder for Whaling with Spicy Pork Sausage

By Cara Nicoletti In the opening chapters of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Ishmael spends his final nights before setting sail aboard the Pequod at the Spouter Inn preparing for his years-long journey at sea. Part of such preparation includes readying oneself for the inevitable periods of dullness and isolation from the rest of the world’s news, finances, friends, and families. This feeling of isolation in which “you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the […]

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