A Reader's Cookbook

Here, Judith Choate, a dean of American cookbooks and a 3-times James Beard Award winner for them, creates an invaluable guide for book groups who like to sample foods redolent of cities or countries where the book they are reading is set. And because the world of the imagination may not exactly replicate geography, she includes such settings as utopia, dystopia and the high seas. Many selections are portable, and Choate's recipes are lusciously bridged with apt literary quotes and sepia photographs.