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    It's Lit!
            Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature
                
                    
                        
                            Season 1
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 10
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life.
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