In her beautiful new book, Fictitious Dishes, graphic designer Dinah Fried presents photos of food made famous by their appearances in literature—the gruel in Charles Dickens‘s Oliver Twist, the steamy clam chowder from Herman Melville‘s Moby-Dick, and the roasted potatoes from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, just to name a few. “Many of my most vivid memories from books are of the meals the characters eat,” Fried writes in the book’s introduction.

The idea to capture fictional food began with a class project during her time as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design but continued “long past the assignment’s due date,” Fried writes. Combining eating with reading came naturally, she says, as “both are comforting, nourishing, restorative, relaxing, and mostly enjoyable” and “heavy books and heavy meals both require a period of intense digestion.” Clearly this is someone who loves good books as much as good eats.

The end result is 50 gorgeous shots of literary food that will either bring back fond memories of the books you’ve read and loved or stoke excitement for the ones you haven’t. Check out 10 of the book’s beautiful images in our gallery.