Instant Alert: 5 unforgettable meals from literature, recreated

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   5 unforgettable meals from literature, recreated by Brittany Fowler on Nov 4, 2015, 1:04 PM Advertisement Though she may call it one, Dinah Fried's amusing new book, "Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals," is like no other photo album we've seen.  From "Alice in Wonderland" to "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," the designer and photographer chose a variety of famous literary meals, whipped them up in her kitchen, and photographed them.  In an interview with Bon Appétit magazine, Fried said she scavenged thrift stores and friends' kitchens to find "the perfect fork, water glass, doily, pepper grinder, or what have you” for each meal.  Keep scrolling to see some of the meals she recreated, along with the excerpts that inspired them.  SEE ALSO: 20 photos of artwork painted entirely with coffee FOLLOW US: BI Life is on Twitter The book emerged from a series of five photographs taken by Fried in her college years. She interpreted meals from both contemporary and classic literature and created table spreads for each. In "Fictitious Dishes," Fried combines photographs of 50 place settings with the literary passages that inspired them. She has shared five of those photographs with Business Insider, beginning with... "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," by Hunter S. Thompson Hardly a meal, the above setup was inspired by this excerpt: "By this time he’d opened a new bottle of tequila and was quaffing it down…He sliced the grapefruit into quarters...then into eighths...then sixteenths...then he began slashing aimlessly at the residue."  See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network: Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011