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!

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Sources:

“Using Alcohol in Pie Dough”. Cook’s Illustrated, n.d.

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5680-using-alcohol-in-pie-dough

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Isabel Allende". Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Mar. 2022

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isabel-Allende

“La empanada, sabor único de la tradición chilena.” Chile Travel, 28 Aug. 2021

https://www.chile.travel/en/uncategorized/la-empanada-sabor-unico-de-la-tradicion-chilena/

Jaron. “Minced Meat Vs Ground Meat – What’s The Difference?” Foodsguy Blog.

https://foodsguy.com/minced-meat-vs-ground-meat/

Ian Lloyd Neubauer. “The hunt for Chile’s best empanada.” BBC Travel, 1 Dec. 2016.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20161118-the-hunt-for-chiles-best-empanada

Naomi Tomky. “Meet the Empanadas of Latin America.” Serious Eats, 10 Aug 2018.

https://www.seriouseats.com/types-of-empanadas-saltenas-corn-flour-plantain-viento-latin-american-food

Florence Fabricant. “For Chileans, Passion Translates to Empanadas.” New York Times, 14 April 2009.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/dining/15empa.html

Recipes that inspired my empanadas de pino:

Gloria Apara. “Chilean Baked Beef Empanadas.” Nomadic Chica Blog, 9 Feb. 2020.

https://www.nomadicchica.com/chilean-baked-beef-empanadas-empanadas-de-pino-horneadas/

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, 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 @literallydelishpod

Sources:

On Lady Bruton's lunch:

Hoff, Molly. “A Feast of Words in ‘Mrs. Dalloway.’” Woolf Studies Annual, vol. 1, 1995, pp. 89–105, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24906319. Accessed 17 May 2022.

The recipe that inspired our eclairs:

"Chocolate Eclairs" by Gale Gand for Food Network

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chocolate-eclairs-recipe-1937901

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 in a future episode, let us know by sending an email to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your suggestions!

Sources:

Brian Freedman - Untangling the Complex History of One of America's Most Popular Cocktails—The Mint Julep, Food and Wine, April 2022.

https://www.foodandwine.com/cocktails-spirits/history-of-mint-julep

Jason Diamond - Where Daisy Buchanan Lived, The Paris Review, Dec. 2012.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/12/25/where-daisy-buchanan-lived/

Kate Dingwall - What are “Bottled-in-Bond” Spirits and Why Should I Care?, Wine Enthusiast.

https://www.winemag.com/2019/10/15/what-is-bottled-in-bond/

Matt Frassica - Romantic nostalgia of 'Gatsby' inspired by Louisville, The Louisville Courier-Journal,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/05/10/gatsby-fitzgerald-louisville/2151741/

Rebecca Toy - A Brief History of the Mint Julep, From Daily Medicine to an Elite Race Icon, Wine Enthusiast.

https://www.winemag.com/2021/04/27/mint-julep-history-kentucky-derby/