Thursday, August 21, 2025

Fairy tale food

Poisoned apples, magic porridge pots, peas you can feel through 20 mattresses, and of course that fantastic gingerbread house - food plays a significant role in literature, and fairy tales are no exception.

A pumpkin transforms into a carriage that gives a downbeat
and hungry Cinderella her salvation - allowing her to
attend the ball, where she meets the prince with whom she
will live happily ever after.

Jack climbs the beanstalk grown from his magic beans
to defeat a giant and give himself and his
starving mother a better life.




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