[Food in Books] The Crown's Fate (The Crown's Game #2) - Evelyn Skye

• Ch. 1
• A chakchak cookie

a cluster of fried dough piled together with syrup and walnut bits.

• Ch. 3
• What Pasha drank

Damn alcohol. It was probably closer to samogon—homemade moonshine—than real vodka.

• A platter of black bread and smoked herring

• Ch. 7
• Baguettes
• Pains au chocolat
(both Galina’s daily order from Madame Boulangère, a French bakery)

• Ch. 25
• Vika's tree with sweets

Vika snapped her fingers, and deep-violet sugarplums appeared all over the tree, hanging by black licorice stems. The lower boughs of the tree grew heavy with enormous candy pinecones, each a different color and flavor, from strawberry red to marmalade orange to honeysuckle-berry blue. And tufts of white cotton candy, like sweet snow, floated down onto the branches. Wherever a child could reach, a treat could be found.

• Ch. 31
• A fresh tureen of borscht
• Tarte à l’oignon

a plate of miniature tarts, filled with caramelized onions, gruyere cheese, and thyme

(both poisoned)

• Ch. 33
• Syrniki pancakes (with cottage cheese and honey; poisoned)

• Ch. 34
• Tea
• Bread dough

• Ch. 40
• Inside Cinderella Bakery

The entire surface of the counter was already covered with the morning’s loaves. There was a glass bowl filled with apple jelly, and another with sour cherry jam. The pech—an enormous stone oven that took up the center of the bakery—was full with trays of piroshki and an iron pot of kasha simmered in its hearth.

• Ch. 50
• What Renata prepared for Nikolai

She placed [tea] on a tray, along with sugar and lemon and cream, and a pain aux raisins, since she knew it was one of Nikolai’s favorites.

• Ch. 52
• What Ludmila brought for Vika

“I thought a fresh Borodinsky loaf and sausages might cheer you up. And it’s a good thing I brought oreshki cookies with me, too. You could certainly use some of those.”

• Ch. 59
• A half-drunk bottle of vodka

• Ch. 64
• Cups with fragrant black tea scented with dried orange
• Three tiers of jam tarts and chocolate and candied nuts

• Ch. 67
• What Renata prepared for Nikolai

[...] a bowl of kasha, and apple jam. She poured him some tea with a single squeeze of lemon and slipped a thread of saffron into the cup.