There is a hunger that only books can satisfy. A hunger for adventure and extraordinary stories, for timeless characters and fantastical worlds. Because good literature awakens the senses. It has aroma, it can be savored, and it leaves a distinctive taste that we can enjoy for a lifetime. Alberto Manguel, an exquisite reader and attentive cook, has devoured the richest literary delicacies and offers us here an appetizing assortment of recipes that feed the soul and the stomach, composing a gastronomic atlas of chimerical territories: from Atlantic fish stew to Beorn’s honey cookies, to Count Dracula’s own fresh blood cocktail or the wizard fingers served at Hogwarts. A literary feast that, like any good party, ends in the kitchen. All recipes are paired with their literary genealogy and a drawing by the author.