I think I haven't read enough classics to be helpful, but I will keep thinking about it. It seems like there must be more.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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."
-t - Feb 04, 2011 3:12:54 pm PST #13887 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Feb 04, 2011 3:21:59 pm PST #13888 of 28282
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The only thing I know about Pickwick Papers is in one of the Anne of Green Gables books, when one of the characters says it always makes her hungry because it's full of food.
I don't remember Far From the Madding Crowd being very food-oriented.
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 3:22:26 pm PST #13889 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It seems like there must be more.
Oliver Twist?
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 3:23:32 pm PST #13890 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The only thing I know about Pickwick Papers is in one of the Anne of Green Gables books, when one of the characters says it always makes her hungry because it's full of food.
Aha! I will add it. I'm not sure there's a discussion topic in this theme, but it might be interesting why some of the food scenes are so memorable.
-t - Feb 04, 2011 3:23:52 pm PST #13891 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2011 3:49:28 pm PST #13892 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Banana Breakfast early into Gravity's Rainbow is memorable. Though it is but one long scene.
Gris - Feb 04, 2011 4:24:30 pm PST #13893 of 28282
Hey. New board.
The "Eat" section of "Eat, Pray, Love" is the best part of the book.
Consuela - Feb 04, 2011 4:32:53 pm PST #13894 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
There's actually a lot of food porn in the Narnia Chronicles, because Lewis was still stuck in the post-war rationing when he wrote it. So the Beavers feeding the kids a pile of mashed potatoes with as much butter as they want was as much a wish-fulfillment fantasy as making them kings and queens at the end of the book.
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 4:57:12 pm PST #13895 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The "Eat" section of "Eat, Pray, Love" is the best part of the book.
Given that the mantra of this salon is actually "we don't read books like Eat, Pray, Love or most Oprah books", I'd say no. Also, that's more non-fiction!
DavidS - Feb 04, 2011 5:02:16 pm PST #13896 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's actually a lot of food porn in the Narnia Chronicles, because Lewis was still stuck in the post-war rationing when he wrote it. So the Beavers feeding the kids a pile of mashed potatoes with as much butter as they want was as much a wish-fulfillment fantasy as making them kings and queens at the end of the book.
Similarly, in Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl there's an incredibly, mouth-watering description of toad-in-the-hole.