{"id":1892,"date":"2019-09-25T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:36:25","slug":"book-2-food-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Book 2, Food references"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mockingjay Cracker<\/p>\n<p>Peeta&#8217;s cheese buns<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the bag I pull two fresh buns with a layer of cheese baked into the top. We always seem to have a supply of these since Peeta found out they were my favorite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I buy a bag of sweets for Prim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I eat three bowls of stew and half a loaf of bread while the others dine at the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tea and toast: the universal panacea<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother ladles out a mug of broth for me, and I ask for a second mug to take to Haymitch&#8230; We sit there, almost peacefully, sipping our broth and watching the sun set through the living room window.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haymitch&#8217;s bar: Ripper&#8217;s hootch, wine<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A cold soup of pur\u00e9ed vegetables. Fish cakes with a creamy lime paste. Those little birds filled with orange sauce, with wild rice and watercress. Chocolate custard dotted with cherries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;I curl up next to him on the couch with my milk, which is really delicious with the honey and the spices&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lunch makes me feel a little bit better. Pheasant with a selection of jewel-colored jellies, and tiny versions of real vegetables swimming in butter, and potatoes mashed with parsley. For dessert we dip chunks of fruit in a pot of melted chocolate, and Cinna has to order a second pot because I just start eating the stuff with a spoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He tosses another sugar cube in his mouth and saunters off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent years watching him pass a bottle back and forth with Haymitch on television.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; the only time I really feel present is when I purposefully knock a dish of peas to the floor&#8230;our hands meet. I can feel his skin, rough under the buttery sauce from the dish&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a minute, sausage, eggs, potatoes, bread, juice, and hot chocolate appear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s eating a turkey leg.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mockingjay Cracker Peeta&#8217;s cheese buns &#8220;From the bag I pull two fresh buns with a layer of cheese baked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}