From Harry Potter to Hercule Poirot, finding Christmas feasts in books
Live MintAs a three-year-old, one of the first mentions of Christmas for me was in a slim edition of The Little Match Girl. From Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to Laura Ingalls Wilder The Long Winter, and even Agatha Christie’s The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, in each of the books we come across delightful mentions of crystallised ginger, roasts with rich gravies, wobbly cranberry jelly, and more. A hundred fat, roast turkeys, mountains of roast and boiled potatoes, platters of fat chipolatas, tureens of buttered peas, silver boats of thick, rich gravy and cranberry sauce, and stacks of wizard crackers every few feet along the table.” A similar story of kinship can be seen in Ruskin Bond’s Calypso Christmas, in which after spending a lonely Christmas in London earlier, the author spends the festival that year with his friends from Jamaica and Trinidad. In Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, a 1965 autobiographical work, one sees the author embark on an adventure with his friends to whip up a Christmas fruitcake, using money from the “Fruitcake fund”. In a post titled ‘Little Women Christmas Breakfast’, she reimagines the menu as: “Although the food is not heavily described in the book I always pictured something mealy and festive.
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