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Join us as we take little deep dives across the decades to uncover the connections between food, history, and pop culture—one cookbook at a time.

This week, Megan and Karen are headed to Hogwarts with Harry Potter: Feasts & Festivities and The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook. We look at the cookbooks, but we also dig into the phenomenon behind them: why the Harry Potter books became so enormously popular and why they continue to endure.

We talk about the way the writing grows up alongside Harry, the series’ intricate structure, its world-building and hero’s journey, and how the books helped create a generation of readers—and a fan culture built around midnight book releases, theories, fan fiction, and a world people still want to return to.

And because this is Pop Culture Pantry, there’s food too: Butterbeer, mincemeat pies, and the elaborate, delectable Patronus Cake.

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• Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Unofficial-Harry-Potter-Cookbook-Knickerbocker/dp/1440503257
• Harry Potter Feasts and Festivities: https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Festivities-Entertaining-Celebrations/dp/168383724X

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