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Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'

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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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DavidS - Feb 04, 2011 10:39:52 am PST #13855 of 28282

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I can think of a number of movies that revolve around meals or food, but the only obvious novel that comes to mind is Zola’s The Belly of Paris. Ideas?

Hemingway's early stories often have a good food scene. Usually cooked over a fire while camping or something.

Wasn't Babbette's Feast originally a novel?

Kathy A - Feb 04, 2011 10:42:16 am PST #13856 of 28282

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I think it was. I've never read it, but the movie...happy sigh...soooo good.

DavidS - Feb 04, 2011 10:42:50 am PST #13857 of 28282

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've never read it, but the movie...happy sigh...soooo good.

It really was. Babbette, Big Night and Tampopo are my fav food movies.

Polter-Cow - Feb 04, 2011 10:45:06 am PST #13858 of 28282

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

What, no love for Simply Irresistible ? It has a MAGICAL CRAB.

DavidS - Feb 04, 2011 10:49:09 am PST #13859 of 28282

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What, no love for Simply Irresistible ? It has a MAGICAL CRAB.

I don't know if it's just me, but every time I get magical crab, I think, "Dang. I should've gotten the enchanted lobster."

Laga - Feb 04, 2011 10:51:03 am PST #13860 of 28282

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Some members of my book club thought World Without End was all about the food but I didn't really notice.

megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 10:53:03 am PST #13861 of 28282

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Wasn't Babbette's Feast originally a novel?

Apparently a story by Isak Dinesen. I had no idea. In looking her up, I found this quotation, which I love:

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."

§ ita § - Feb 04, 2011 10:55:06 am PST #13862 of 28282

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Flounder should have been more about food.

Ginger - Feb 04, 2011 11:01:04 am PST #13863 of 28282

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Tom Jones, Like Water for Chocolate

Laga - Feb 04, 2011 11:04:15 am PST #13864 of 28282

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

oh oh oh! What's that book about the woman who learns how to cook kosher from her mother-in-law?

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