The Favorite Foods of Famous Literary Heroines

Cathy Barrow, an avid home cook, home fruit preserver, pickler, butcher, baker and cheesemaker, who writes about home food preservation and other topics for the New York Times, the Washington Post and on her blog, Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Kitchen and I were discussing on Twitter the favorite snack foods of the famous heroines of literature. What do you think? Would Anna Karenina harbor a fondness for blinis?     Hester Prynne: Wild asparagus Mrs. Murray (of A Wrinkle in Time): Swiss on rye, toasted over a Bunsen burner Miss Havisham: Cake crumbs, stale Anne (of Anne of Green Gables): This cordial is alcoholic? Ooops Juliet (of Romeo and Juliet): Croque madame Scarlett O’Hara: Baby radishes with sweet butter Miss Marple: Crumpets, marmalade Lily Bart: Pheasant under glass Isabel Archer: Frank’s Red Hot Sauce Daisy Miller: Fresh figs and proscuitto Nancy Drew: ‘Nilla Wafers Little Miss Muffett: Curds and whey (obviously) Dorothea Brooke: Devonshire cream Charlotte (of Charlotte’s Web): Flies Madame Bovary: Ile flottante Harriet (of Harriet the Spy): Tomato and mayo on white Pippi Longstocking: Lingonberry jam