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Friday, February 16, 2018

What did Mona Lisa Eat?

Leonardo and Mona Lisa at the Table.
Here's a delightful book: Pass The Pandowny, Please: Chewing on History with Famous Folks and their Fabulous Foods by Abigail Ewing Zelz, illustrated by Eric Zelz.


If you often read this blog, you know that I love to explore what famous people ate. Most recently, I read two food-centered biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin, but I've had many more encounters with famous people and their food. If you have been following me forever, you know that one of my first such blog posts was:

Mona Lisa: By Request

Renaissance Pasta or, What Did Mona Lisa Eat?

Well, here is a book that follows up 13 famous men and 3 famous women, checking out what they ate. It looks like a children's book -- but really it was written just for me (and maybe you).

For a fantastic review, check this blog post by Jama: 



[review + recipe] Pass the Pandowdy, Please by 

Abigail Ewing Zelz and Eric Zelz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018 
I'm totally grateful to Jama for this post. I ordered a copy of the book for myself as soon as I read her
review. I might even make her pandowny recipe. If you don't know what pandowny is, that's another
good reason to read her post.
Posted by Mae Travels at 8:25 PM
Labels: February-2018, Food in Literature, Mona Lisa, What did historic figures eat

8 comments:

jama said...

Thanks for the link love, Mae. Glad you got the book!

2/16/2018 10:05 PM
gluten Free A_Z Blog said...

After reading Jama's post last week, I bought the book for my 10 year old snd 6 year old grandkids for Valentine's Day. They loved it=

2/17/2018 7:12 AM
Beth F said...

It does look like a cute and informative book.

2/17/2018 7:55 AM
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

That sounds terribly fun! Thank you!

2/17/2018 8:52 AM
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

I’m always on the lookout for wonderful children’s picture books.

https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2018/02/good-garlicky-thick-hearty-soul.html

2/17/2018 8:53 AM
Debra Eliotseats said...

These books sound great. I love the illustrations.

2/17/2018 10:45 AM
Deb in Hawaii said...

This looks like such a great book and that pandowdy sounds pretty delicious too. ;-)

2/17/2018 12:19 PM
Jeanie said...

This looks awfully cute! And in a few years, I'll have someone old enough to share it with. Oh wait, maybe I could just enjoy it myself!

2/17/2018 12:35 PM

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My name is Mae E. Sander. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I began blogging in 2006, and kept both a food and a travel blog through 2015. I'm now posting both food and travel at maefood.blogspot.com -- including various posts about Mona Lisa parodies, detective fiction, world literature and many other interests. This blog contains no advertising and no product endorsements. If I mention a product, it's because I like it: I do not accept products for supposedly objective reviews.
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