Kate Christensen's favorite food scenes in fiction

The prolific author recommends works by James Joyce, Edith Wharton, and more

Kate Christensen
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Kate Christensen's new novel, The Last Cruise, is set on a 1950s luxury liner. Below, the author of How to Cook a Moose and the novels The Great Man and The Epicure's Lament names her favorite food scenes in fiction — and where to find them.

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Dover, $5).

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