Full article in The Sydney Morning Herald.
The brainchild of London photographer and bookish foodie Mark Crick, the recipes in Kafka's Soup - A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes are written in the style of famous authors, from Jane Austen ("It is a truth universally acknowledged that eggs, kept for too long, go off," begins her tarragon eggs recipe) to Irvine Welsh. "
(The recipe for Raymond Chandler's lamb with dill sauce is supplied and begins :)"I sipped on my whisky sour, ground out my cigarette on the chopping board and watched a bug trying to crawl out of the basin. I needed a table at Maxim's, a hundred bucks and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues.
I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner's handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was doing a carrot lay in pieces on the slab. None of them moved."
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