Bougie Bites
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
NYC Neighborhood Names
Witchcraft
Marsupials
100
Pigs were once used to harvest White Alba these in the Piedmont region of Italy, but their insatiable appetite meant that they were just as likely to eat them as they were to find them
Truffles
100
Despite his laconic prose lacking any florid flourishes, he still earned the Pulitzer for this 1953 novella about the futile efforts of a Havana fisherman named Santiago
Ernest Hemingway
100
Hanging out south of Houston? You might refer to that neck of the woods with this catchy name
SoHo
100
"Double, Double toil and trouble / Fire burn and cauldron bouble," opens Shakespeare's witchy triumvirate in this iconic play
Macbeth
100
Koalas dine primarily on this tree's leaves, which are actually toxic to any cats! Good thing they have nine lives
Eucalyptus
200
The Caspian Sea is home to the huso huso sturgeon, an endangered species that produces the rarest form of this seafood delicacy — which can take up to two decades to harvest!
Caviar
200
This author was awarded the pulitzer prize posthumously, joining Sylvia Plath and James Agee in that distinction. His picaresque novel follows the foibles and follies of one Ignatius J. Reilly.
John Kennedy Toole
200
In the triangle below Canal? Well, you should check out the local film festival
Tribeca
200
This five-pointed star enclosed within a circle can be used to conjure spirits and cast hexes on unsuspecting victims
Pentagram
200
A baby kangaroo that is still taking up residence in its mother's pouch is best known by this name
Joey
300
While the highest grade a student can receive is an A+, this bougie cut can be graded up to an A5 — indicating a marbling, rich, "melt in your mouth" decadence
Wagyu beef
300
In 2005, Marilynne Robinson won the Pulitzer for her epistolary novel Gilead; the only other epistolary novel to win the award was in 1983 by this author, who revealed the story of Celie in her letters to God
Alice Walker
300
Are you hanging downtown in Brooklyn, say, under the Manhattan Bridge overpass? Maybe you're in this acronymic area
DUMBO
300
Melissa Joan Hart starred as this adolescent conjurer of the occult in this 90s sitcom, alongside her talking cat Salem
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
300
The video game mascot Crash is perhaps the most famous instance of representation for this nocturnal marsupial, indigenous to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea
Bandicoot
400
Fattened liver of a duck or a goose is required to create this French delicacy, bon appetit!
Foie Gras
400
He was awarded the Pulitzer twice over a period of three years: in 2017 for "The Underground Railroad" and in 2020 for "The Nickel Boys" — the latter of which was adapted to a film shot entirely in first person
Colson Whitehead
400
This neighborhood in Queens fittingly translates to "crown" in Spanish, said to be derived from a desire to rebrand and bolster the reputation of what was originally "West Flushing" by developers
Corona
400
This Pagan-based religion gained a following in the mid-20th century; it's practitioners have only grown as a part of the growing online presence of WitchTok influencers
Wicca
400
This carnivorous marsupial was once found all across mainland Australia thought it is now extinct to that region. Fortunately, it can still be found on the island of its namesake.
Tasmanian Devil
500
Thousands of Crocus flowers must be harvested to produce one batch of this remarkably expesive spice; it's flavor is described as earthy and floral
Saffron
500
Her upbringing in rural China under the guise of her missionary parents inspired this writer to publish The Good Earth, a work of historical fiction that won the prize in 1933
Pearl S. Buck
500
This area on the Southern tip of Manhattan earned its name as the British stronghold of artillery in the late 17th century
Battery Park
500
A group of 13 witches holding esbats and sabbats might be referred to as this type of group, which amplifies their respective magical abilities
Coven
500
This diminutive cousin to the kangaroo rarely exceed three feet in height, making them slightly more approachable to people 
Wallaby