104. Words into Food
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It’s Food Season at the Allusionist. Last episode we learned all about compiling recipes, turning food into words. This time, we meet someone who turns words into food - no, she doesn’t make Alphabetti Spaghetti. When Kate Young of the Little Library Cafe spots a foodstuff or a feast in a novel, she finds ways to cook it in reality, whether it’s delicious (Babette’s Feast), evil (Edmund’s Turkish delight in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) or poisonous (the crab and avocado in The Bell Jar).
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zoltzman, go poking around in languages wardrobe |
| 0:08.6 | and end up talking to a fawn and it's whole-cut old until a lion who is a metaphor for |
| 0:13.5 | Christ brings the summer heat. |
| 0:15.6 | This is the illusionist food minisee and last episode we learned all about compiling recipes |
| 0:20.3 | turning food into words. |
| 0:22.1 | Today, we meet someone who turns words into food. |
| 0:26.4 | Not like half a Betty Spaghetti, different. |
| 0:29.2 | And with the show. |
| 0:38.8 | I made a Tricol Tart, is the kind of beginning of this story, and the Tricol Tart was a thing |
| 0:45.2 | that I made because it's Harry Potter's favourite dessert. |
| 0:48.1 | And that sounded like a good review of the thing I had never eaten and thought contained |
| 0:53.2 | Tricol, which it doesn't. |
| 0:55.0 | It has golden syrup. |
| 0:56.0 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | I was like, oh, I'm going to die right there in the title. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, it's quite cool. |
| 1:01.0 | Did you know that before you made it? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, I just read lots of recipes and just kept going like, maybe this is the modern way |
| 1:05.5 | of making a Tricol Tart and maybe I'll find one that has Tricol in it, but there's no |
| 1:09.5 | recipe for a Tricol Tart with Tricol in it. |
| 1:11.3 | It's just pie of lies. |
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