What If Willy Wonka Was Your Dad? Roald Dahl's Magical Parenting With Food
Food played a big role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Dahl's other books. His daughter remembers fanciful "midnight feasts" and says her father used mealtime to test out new characters.
Three-course dinner chewing gum.
Fizzy lifting drinks.
Everlasting gobstoppers.
These, of course, are the creations of Willy Wonka, who himself is the creation of author Roald Dahl.
Food is a huge part of Dahl's work, not only in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but also in Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and more. And as it turns out, Dahl's creative and sometimes twisted approach to food wasn't contained to his books.
