December Meme Question 4

[osprey_archer]

littlerhymes asked: Talk about all baked good things please. I always love the food details in your stories, how much of that comes from life?

Ha, well, the baked good obsession definitely comes from life. Once some friends and I went to Nashville, Indiana (it's a little town that was famous in the early 20th century as the home of the Hoosier Group, a pack of American Impressionist artists who decided to devote their artistic talents to the hills of Brown County), and we ended up eating five desserts or so over the course of the day. There was a pumpkin loaf, a blackberry crumple and an apple crisp, a foray into a fudge shop, and an ice cream sundae to round the afternoon off.

We were sharing these, not each having our very own of every single one, but that was still a lot of dessert.

I also liked to throw tea parties, back when I lived in a place where I had enough tea-drinking friends to appreciate it. But that was a while and a while ago.

I try not to write about food that I haven't tried at least once, because otherwise I'm sure I would mess up the description. And generally if my characters are cooking something, it will be something that I've cooked, too. Except that time that they set a plum pudding on fire. I have neither made a plum pudding, nor set one on fire, but I couldn't resist tossing that scene in.

Comments

[littlerhymes]

That five-dessert day sounds AMAZING, I wish to replicate it immediately!

I have learned so much about American sweets from your fics. Who would've thought there was so much cultural difference in the world of baked goods? Please continue to put in all manner of sweet things in your stories. :)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I feel like baked goods are one of those areas where cultural differences linger, unnoticed. Everyone wants the sweets that they enjoyed as a child, I suppose?

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

fudge shops are THE WORST.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Because they are full of fudgy goodness and you want to eat all the samples and then buy all the fudge? Or for some other reason?

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Pretty much! And because fudge is so rich that you can only eat a tiny amount, but you want to eat ALL the amounts!