This looks pretty good: The School of Essential Ingredients. It's a novel, too.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Amy - Feb 04, 2011 11:52:55 am PST #13872 of 28282
Because books.
Amy - Feb 04, 2011 11:57:37 am PST #13873 of 28282
Because books.
Also Chocolat by Joanne Harris, and if I remember correctly Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club had a whole lot to do with food, too.
-t - Feb 04, 2011 11:59:49 am PST #13874 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 12:22:11 pm PST #13875 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Last Chinese Chef
How funny, one of the salonistas was just raving about A Cup of Light (by the same author) this morning.
Any classics besides Tom Jones? I don't want to have to resort to The Jungle.
Deena - Feb 04, 2011 12:23:19 pm PST #13876 of 28282
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks for the groupon heads' up, Steph. Score!
-t - Feb 04, 2011 12:27:45 pm PST #13877 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, I'll have to look for that.
Typo Boy - Feb 04, 2011 1:03:59 pm PST #13878 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Gabriela Cloves and Cinammon. But food was important to most of what Amado wrote.
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 1:11:17 pm PST #13879 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Gabriela Cloves and Cinammon.
I'd never heard of that, but I checked the description on Goodreads and now I want to read it.
I came across these on Goodreads food/novel lists: Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) and The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
I haven't read either, do they have big meal scenes?
Typo Boy - Feb 04, 2011 1:23:12 pm PST #13880 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
To me not one of Amado's best though often the one people start with cause of the movie. My favorites: "Tent of Miracles" and "Shepherds of the Night". (latter is really a series of related short stories in the same setting and with the same characters. Like a TV series with an arc.)
Kate P. - Feb 04, 2011 1:28:46 pm PST #13881 of 28282
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
TB, my DH just picked up Tent of Miracles recently -- we're going on a spree of reading books about Brazil, to prepare for our honeymoon there. Now I want to read it too! I was sort of thinking I'd try to pick up Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon or Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in a trade paperback while we're there.