An interesting find...

Hello people. Here I am because I came across an article which I thought had some relevance lately. I was looking through some old Waitrose magazines from last year for the recipes I wanted to mark. As I did this I came across an article entitled ‘Novel Noels’ from the December 2024 issue. Now as you have guessed it had something to do with novels. The aforementioned issue was all centred around Christmas and the celebrating the festive season with food. This is not unexpected, but finding the following article was.
          
                                              

The article looks at different festive dishes from works of fiction. The selection happens to include ‘THE NEW YEAR FRY-UP in White Teeth’¹ which I thought was nice. I also like that they clearly state what it is actually comprised of: ‘Three fried eggs, baked beans, two rounds of toast, mushrooms and - because it's that time of year - turkey, all for £2.85.’² Can you imagine getting all that for that money nowadays though? Bare in mind this novel recently celebrated it's 25th anniversary back in January. 2000's prices were a lot different then they are now. Another thing, if that was not enough, Waitrose even give you a suggested time of when to read the novel. It might be ‘On the sofa on New Year's Day’³ though it's also ‘fry up optional.’

Anyway, I quite enjoyed reading it and looking at what some other fictional pieces had to serve up to me, should I select one of the others for an offering. The other mentioned novels were Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons and lastly The Adventure of the Blue ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ taken from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  by Arthur Conan Doyle. I must admit that I have read none of those, however I think I saw the Bridget Jones's Diary movie sometime ago. Rom-coms never have never really done it for me. I often fancy something different than man and woman love story because a lot of them are in my opinion. Maybe one day I will end up reading the novel to see how fairs up.

For now, I hope you have something enjoyable to read. I'm sinking my teeth in Zadie Smith (no surprise there!)

[P.S: My next post will be on Saturday instead of Friday because it is International Women's Day.]

Until next,


Thomas.



Footnotes:

¹ Emma Hughes, ‘Novel Noels’, Waitrose & Partners, December 2024, 109.
² Hughes, ‘Novel Noels’, 109.
³ Hughes, ‘Novel Noels’, 109.
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Hughes, ‘Novel Noels’, 109.
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Hughes, ‘Novel Noels’, 107-12.


Bibliography:

Hughes, Emma. ‘Novel Noels.’ Waitrose & Partners, December 2024


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