The Wife

Book menu for The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

ISBN of edition I read: 0684869403 (hardcover)

Food mentioned in The Wife:
Nuts, 9, 11
Cookies. 8-11, 23
     Tollhouse cookies, 10
Cheese, 11
Whisky, 11 50
Wine, 11, 82, 92, 115, 139, 162, 168
Brisket, 12, 14
Sponge cake, 13
Chocolates, 14
Prawns in black bean sauce, 15
Hostess Sno-Balls, 17, 145, 178, 201
Tapioca pudding, 18
Sourballs, 18
Liver, 18
Ebinger's Blackout Cake, 19
Sherbert, 20
Oranges 21
Panckes, 21
Coffee, 22, 95, 200
Corn chips, 23
Scotch, 26
Cornish game hens, 29
Figs, 35
Steak, 40, 136, 214
Crullers, 41
Walnuts, 42-43 49, 58-59, 63, 69-70, 96, 106 110, 155
Shepherd's pie, 45
Hard candies, 49
Bundt cakes, 64
Yorkshire pudding, 71
Roast beef, 71
Lamb chops, 75
Champagne 82
Poached salmon, 82
Guava nectar, 82
Fried egg sandwiches, 89
Caramels, 90
Bourbon, 90
Fruit & cheese 95
Spaghetti al burro 98
Vodka, 101, 139
     Vodka tonics, 149
Coke, 106
Egg foo yung, 111
Peaches, 117
Hamburgers, 130
Martinis, 136-137
Twice-baked potatoes, 136
Karelian pasties, 139
Iced tea, 142
Kasha Knish, 143
Pretzel sticks, 156
Potato pancakes, 161, 163
Beer, 162
Bloody Marys, 171
Bread pudding, 175
Foie gras, 187
Chestnut cake, 197
Scotch, 214

Books/Authors mentioned in The Wife:
Dylan Thomas, 11
Simone Weil, 20
The Nancy Drew series, 33
The Trixie Belden series, 33
Jane Austen, 196
     Mansfield Park,  42-43
Charles Dickens, 43
     Oliver Twist, 45
Gustave Flaubert, 43
Leo Tolstoy, 43
Anton Chekhov, 43
James Joyce, 43, 58, 71, 198
     Ulysses, 43
     Dubliners, 43
     The Dead, 189
Virginia Woolf, 44, 170
Flannery O'Connor, 51-52
Carson McCullers, 52, 134
O'Henry, 55
Rainer Maria Rilke, 182
     Letters to a Young Poet, 59
Henry James, 90, 202
     The Golden Bowl, 85

     The Turn of the Screw, 103
Arthur Miller, 88
Mary McCarthy, 103 131 134, 198
Thornton Wilder, 109
The Naked and the Dead / Norman Mailer, 125
Lillian Hellman, 131, 134
Gunter Grass, 139
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 139
"Kalevala" (Finnish poem), 139, 149, 186, 191
"Hiawatha" (poem) / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 139 149
Jacques Lacan, 141
Saul Bellow, 182
Les fleurs du mal / Charles Beaudelaire, 182
The Brontes, 196
Henrik Ibsen, 210

Music mentioned in The Wife:
Jean Sibelius , 10
"Gaudeamus Igatur", 46
"A String of Pearls" / Jerry Gray, 55
South Pacific soundtrack, 56 198
     "Here I am Your Special Island", 58
Herbie Hancock, 90
Yma Sumac, 102
"A Town without Pity" / Gene Pitney, 136
Jefferson Airplane, 162
Django Reinhardt, 194
Mozart, 200

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