Designer, director, and “amateur table-setter” Dinah Fried has recreated a number of iconic meals from famous fiction: tequila, grapefruits, and cigarettes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; the bowl of chowder from Moby Dick; the cheese sandwich from Catcher in the Rye; the gruel from Oliver Twist. And it’s changed the way she reads:
I notice with greater clarity than ever when anything is consumed in the book,” she said. “I pay more careful attention to the way food is described or cooked or eaten.
See more of Fried’s “Fictitious Dishes” here.
