Author Brilliantly Recreates Famous Meals From Literature

'Fictitious Dishes,' from Melville to Hunter S. Thompson

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We're not normally coffee-table book people, but this? This is awesome.

Designer Dinah Fried has just published a collection of fascinating images called Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals. To compile the 128-page labor of love, she cooked, photographed and art directed recreations of 50 meals found in literature, from Oliver Twist to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (who can forget all those oh-so-Swedish egg and cheese sandwiches with coffee?).

"Many of my most vivid memories from books are of the meals the characters eat," Fried writes.

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