{"id":4686,"date":"2015-08-04T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2015-08-18T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:34:21","slug":"feeding-your-reading-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4686","title":{"rendered":"Feeding your Reading Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love the premise behind Shari\u2019s Berries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berries.com\/blog\/20-desserts-inspired-by-your-favorite-books\">Book + Dessert Pairing Guide<\/a>. <em>Gone Girl<\/em>? Raspberry crepes. <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>? Tea biscuits and jam. The most inspired mix of gustatory and cultural delight since <a href=\"http:\/\/cinemasips.com\/\">cinema sips<\/a>\u2014\u201cA Modern Guide to Film and Cocktail Pairings.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4687\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4687\" class=\" wp-image-4687\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/18064460803_636fe0c012_z.jpg?resize=250%2C333\" alt=\"reading, apple\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/18064460803_636fe0c012_z.jpg?w=481&amp;ssl=1 481w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/18064460803_636fe0c012_z.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He must be reading &#8220;The Turk Who Loved Apples&#8221;! (photo: Greg Myers, creative commons license)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, what goes best with the recent books I&#8217;ve read and the movies based on them?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seveneves\u2014whatever. In the bleakness of space, when you\u2019re eating algae, even a matzoh would be divine<\/li>\n<li>Blue Labyrinth\u2014a Blue Hawaii that\u2019s a really Aloysius Pendergast-worthy one, what else?<\/li>\n<li>The Breaks\u2014those folks should be drinking Jack on the rocks and lots of it<\/li>\n<li>Penumbra\u2019s 24-Hour Book Store\u2014lemon mousse, though it need not glow in the dark<\/li>\n<li>The Storm Murders\u2014awesome cajun food (no poutine, even though most of the story takes place in Quebec)<\/li>\n<li>Inherent Vice\u2014hash brownies, no contest!<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Holmes\u2014a honey pie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The extent to which readers link reading and eating is dreadfully apparent to anyone who takes a best-seller out of the library and finds greasy crumb-marks, and often the crumbs themselves squished between its pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love the premise behind Shari\u2019s Berries Book + Dessert Pairing Guide. Gone Girl? Raspberry crepes. Alice in Wonderland? Tea biscuits and jam. The most inspired mix of gustatory and cultural delight since cinema sips\u2014\u201cA Modern Guide to Film and Cocktail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Feeding your Reading Soul -- what to eat and drink while you indulge your literary tastes","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122,57,104],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-movies","category-the-morgue","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1dA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}