Publishing agency Harper Design came out with a photo album of culinary dishes from literature

On April, the 15th, Harper Design published Fictitious Dishes – a book by Dinah Freid, a young designer, which overflows with beautiful tableaux of meals found in books.

It only took five years for a series of five food photographs shot by Dinah, then student at the Rhode Island design school, to grow into a full book titled “Fictitious Dishes”. It was published by Harper Collins and is available for sale on Amazon. The book brought together fifty photographs of culinary dishes mentioned in different novels, modern and classic ones. For instance, Dinah reconstructed the mad tea party scene from “Alice In Wonderland”, displayed the looks of Oliver Twist’s porridge and the meal of the “Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas” characters. She also demonstrates what sort of dinners Gatsby’s characters favored in “To Kill A Mockingbird” and”On The Road”. Each photo is accompanied by the novel excerpt that inspired it. Moreover, the photographer added plenty of interesting facts about the dishes, the writers and their culinary passions to the book. Dinah prepared all the dishes singlehandedly. She also acted as the food-stylist.

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Dinah Freid is a designer and an art-director. She studied graphic design and in 2014 founded Small Stuff, a design-studio. Her work was published in The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Bon Appetit, Saveur and others.