A Change of Eatery

For the past few evenings, I’ve had an entertaining comment thread going with Kelly Vass, who authors What I’m Eating, a Philly-based food blog, and tweets under the handle @foodinphilly.

As Kelly is currently finishing her Masters in English Literature and I’m the proud recipient of an English BA myself, combining our love for food and literature seems to come naturally. We’re unabashed book nerds with irrepressible silly sides and a soft spot for the classics. That being said, I can’t help but share the fruits of our inspiration…er, procrastination. It’s a little alarming how quickly these came to mind.

Image from www.nytimes.com, 2007

Here’s a foodie spin on some of our favorite classics:

“Olive with a Twist” (Sorry Dickens)

As Kelly described, A tale of an orphan olive who gets rescued by a naked martini.

“A Farewell to Parm” (Hemingway)

An Italian man becomes lactose intolerant. Tearjerker indeed.

“As I Lay Frying” (Faulkner)

A piece of bacon reflects on his life and then has a long journey to the kitchen table.

Followed by:

• The Sound and the Curry (Faulkner)
• Don Chipotle (de Cervantes)
• The Merchant of Venison (Shakespeare)
• Much Ado About Frosting (Shakespeare)
• Lord of the Pies (Golding)
• To Grill A Mockingbird (Lee)
• War and Peas (Tolstoy)
• Love in the Time of Cauliflower (Garcia Marquez)
• The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ham (Joyce)
• The Ghee Musketeers (Dumas)
• The Old Man and the Brie (Hemingway)
• The Castle of Cilantro (Walpole)
• Plate Expectations (Dickens)
• Banana Karenina (Tolstoy)
• A Tale of Two Foodies (Dickens)
• Tart of Darkness (Conrad)
• The Taming of the Stew (Shakespeare)
• The Sage of Innocence (Wharton)
• A Wrinkle in Thyme (L’Engle)
• Waiting for Merlot (Beckett)

Perhaps the next step is illustration…I’d like to see some of these covers in print.

Chime in with your favorite!