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This essay reviews the following works:Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Readings. By Nora C. Benedict. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. ix+ 365. $35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780300251418.Oriente no es una pieza de museo: Jorge Luis Borges, la clave orientalista y el manuscrito de "Qué es el budismo." By Sonia Betancort. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2018. Pp. 316. Paperback. ISBN: 9788490129678.Artesana de sí misma: Gabriela Mistral, una intelectual en cuerpo y palabra. By Claudia Cabello Hutt. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 240. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781557538079.Jorge Luis Borges in Context. Edited by Robin Fiddian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 285. $116.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108470445.A History of Chilean Literature. Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 654. $115.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108487375.Ascent to Glory: How "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Was Written and Became a Global Classic. By Alvaro Santana-Acuña. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 384. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780231184335.

Conventionally, children are depicted finding comfort in the sensory appeal of food, as part of experiences that eventually will become sources of adult nostalgia. Polly Horvath's novels provide narratives that depict the creation of such moments without the accompanying nostalgia. This essay analyzes two of Horvath's most successful and food-focused novels, Everything on a Waffle and The Canning Season, using the disciplinary and theoretical frames of children's literature, food studies, social science research on comfort food as well as literary scholarship on nostalgia and on Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, pursuing a counter-argument to the conventional view of children's literature as a locus of nostalgia.