Love in the Time of Brancaccio's

The Village Voice recently made up a list of "Ten Great Food Moments in Literature," with corresponding places to score similar literary delicacies. Brancaccio's eggplant caponata is called "so good, even Fermina would like it."

7. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
When she agrees to marry the town's most eligible bachelor, beautiful Fermina pushes the real love of her life, Florentino, into a downward spiral of romantic desperation and sexual debauch. Her disappointing decision to wed Dr. Urbino, chronicled in García Márquez's masterpiece, largely hinges on one condition: that the physician won't make her eat eggplant, which she has feared since childhood. Turns out, he kinda does. Fermina's mother-in-law serves up aubergine every day, "out of respect for her dead husband." The marriage doesn't end up being a very happy one.