This week, Nick makes empanadas de pino horneados, or baked beef empanadas, from Isabel Allende's wonderful novel Daughter of Fortune. This episode has a bit of everything: fun facts about empanadas and pastry hacks that will give you flakier and crisper pastry. If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the author’s name to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. Keep listening to hear more of your favorite foods from books featured on Literally Delicious! Find the recipe for tod ..read more

In this week's episode, we are celebrating nearly 100 years of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf by making a pastry from the book that's enjoyed by both the characters and podcasters alike -- chocolate eclairs! Though they're quite the demanding and time-consuming pastry, the eclair makes a perfect little sweet with tea! We hope you enjoy listening to this week's episode as much as we enjoyed eating chocolate eclairs (which was a lot). If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work ..read more

Hope y'all are thirsty! We got just what you need for these warmer May days: it's the mint julep from The Great Gatsby. Chances are you've read this one before, and it's likely that you weren't of legal drinking age when you last read it. But we are here to tell you about the history of the mint julep and why Nick thinks that it's such a big deal that Fitzgerald features it in one of the novel's climactic scenes. Let us know what you think about the mint julep in Gatsby and find the recipe on our Instagram account @literallydelishpod. If you'd like to recommend a dish or drink for us to make i ..read more

Hi, food nerds! We hope you enjoy this week's episode where Nick makes Omani food from Jokha Alharthi's 2010 novel (published in English in 2018) Celestial Bodies. The dishes this week include Omani halwa (jelly sweets), khubz ragtag (flatbread with honey and butter), chicken broth, and qahwa (coffee). Nick also shares a little bit from his research on Zanzibar, Oman, and the history of slavery and abolition in the Al Busaidi empire around the Indian Ocean. If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, ti ..read more

Better late than never, here is this week's episode. Nick seriously won't shut up about this award winning book (or how well his roast chicken came out). This week, Nick sleuths out a recipe and then draws inspiration from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a classic cookbook written, in part, by Julia Childe. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you keep listening! If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the author’s name to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. Keep li ..read more

In this week's episode, Nick talks House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III and gets nerdy about some crispy rice. We also make khorest bademjan from a recipe courtesy of a friend of the author that you can find in the Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp. We hope you enjoy and that you keep listening to Literally Delicious! If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the author’s name to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. Keep listening to hear more of your ..read more

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Nick has been looking forward to making these recipes for awhile! This week, we present a trio of Greek diner dishes, including pastitsio, tzatziki, and rizogalo (rice pudding). We hope you enjoy these diner favorites at home and that you read the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the author’s name to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. Keep listening to hear more of your favorite ..read more

The BIG episode is here, food nerds! In this extra long episode, Nick makes SIX recipes from Nora Ephron's 1983, semi-autobiographical novel, Heartburn. There's so much cooking in this episode that you might worry that Nick won't have enough time to be nerdy. But, fear not. Nick deep dives the origins of "back-of-the-box" recipes and argues for their importance to American food culture. If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the author’s name to literallydelishpod@gm ..read more

It’s LIT Delicious this week, food nerds! Nick, Gab, and Nick’s best friend Kyle team up and shake up some lovely pink cocktails from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. The Jack Rose cocktail is one with an astounding history, as it has been named as one of the favorite cocktails of some major literary stars and film icons. Plus, it’s delicious, and it will definitely take a place in your cocktail rotation. So why can’t you find this cocktail at any bars? Nick tries to answer this question and shares a few other interesting tidbits about the Jack Rose between sips. It’s bevvie time, food n ..read more

Literally Delicious is back for a new week with a new book and two new recipes. In today’s episode, Nick tries his hand at making jhal muri, a spicy street eat from India that features in Jumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel The Namesake. If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the author’s name to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. Keep listening to hear more of your favorite foods from books featured on Literally Delicious! Find the recipe for today’s episode on Instagram @literall ..read more