ABSTRACT
Two cookbooks feature two juvenile girls: The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook: Charming Recipes from Anne and Her Friends at Avonlea by Kate Macdonald was re-issued in 2017, while Alice Eats: A Wonderland Cookbook by Julie Rosendaal and illustrated by Pierre Lamielle was published in 2013 and includes the full text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In both novels, we see a connection between curiosity and consumption whether it is food and drink, or knowledge and new experiences. In this chapter, the author proposes to focus on the somewhat overlooked area of the intellectual appetites of children. She argues that the concept that straddles or bridges the bodily appetites manifested in Alice and Anne's eating and cooking and in their intellectual hunger is curiosity. The author examines the connection between Alice's eating and drinking and her curiosity by looking at her intellectual journey. She analyzes the relationship between Anne's embodiment in her eating and cooking and her troublesome imaginative curiosity.
