Did you know Jean-Paul Sartre was obsessed with halva? Or that Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf could have indulged a carb overload with one of their homemade loaves of bread?
Over at The Hairpin, Jane Hu puts together a glossary of favored foods by famous writers. Hu covers everything from caffeine addiction, to the chewing tendencies of Franz Kafka, to Molière’s milk diet.
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