Like wine and cheese, however, it's important to plan your pairings in advance, to make sure they complement each other.
Here are some of my suggested pairings:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn + apple pie. Both are great American institutions.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland + pineapple upside-down cake. Nothing is as it should be!
- Animal Farm + animal crackers. How docilely they march off to their fates
- As I Lay Dying + pecan pie. Nuts and booze - two things you often find in combination.
- The Big Sleep + oranges. So much pulpy goodness!
- Crime & Punishment + fruitcake. Two things seeped in tradition but way too dense to actually consume.
- Don Quixote + plum pudding. Unappetizing upon first appearance, but suspended inside are treasures of great worth.
- Grapes of Wrath + pound cake. Sustaining but never quite satisfying.
- Great Gatsby + sorbet. So bright, so beautiful, so tempting; then it melts and you realizes it was never anything but sugar water and food coloring.
- Gulliver's Travels + Jello. All sorts of nasty surprises suspended inside
- Frankenstein + glazed doughnut sundae. Some combinations are just too dangerous to exist.
- Inferno + baked Alaska. It's all fun and games until suddenly you find yourself in flames.
- Little Women + shortbread. Simple but highly satisfying
- Lolita + lollipops. So innocent; so alluring!
- Lord of the Rings + doughnuts. Beware all rings of power.
- Madame Bovary + fresh cherries. Glistening, gaudy and oh, so tempting ... until you realize that they come with pits.
- Moby Dick + blackberry pie. As dark and bitter as Ahab's soul
- The Portrait of Dorian Gray + meringue. The fantasy of perfection is sustained only so long as no one comes too close, whereupon it self-destructs and turns to dust.
- Pride & Prejudice + tea cakes. Obviously!
- Robinson Crusoe + breadfruit. Filling, but not much nutritional value.
- Scarlet Letter + Twinkies. Because all of us have a shameful secret.
- Scoop + ice cream sundae. As if the ice cream weren't good enough, it's topped with all kinds of delightfully gaudy sauces and sprinkles.
- Sophie's Choice + a box of chocolates. Choosing just one means leaving all the others behind, and you'll never know if you made the best choice.
- The Importance of Being Earnest + bonbons. Every glittering witticism is like a zing of exquisite chocolate.
- To Kill a Mockingbird + shoofly pie. Because you shouldn't dismiss something until you've walked in it's shoes
- Treasure Island + rum cake with orange icing. The orange icing is to ward off scurvy
- Tropic of Cancer + chocolate éclairs. You know it's all about the naughty bits.
- Ulysses + raw coconut. A touch nut to crack, and after you've gone to all that trouble you're still not sure it was worth it.
- Vanity Fair + key lime pie. No matter how much whipped cream you pile on top, it can never quite disguise the sour bitterness at the core.
- War & Peace + mincemeat pie. All meat; no pie.
- Wuthering Heights + raw blackberries. It's the thorns that make them so desirable
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