It seems like there must be more.
Oliver Twist?
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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."
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 3:22:26 pm PST #13889 of 28290
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 3:23:32 pm PST #13890 of 28290
"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 28290
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 28290
"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 28290
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 28290
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 28290
"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 28290
"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.
sj - Feb 04, 2011 6:07:54 pm PST #13897 of 28290
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There is a good amount of food mentioned in The Wind in the Willows
Re: the novella conversation from the other day, I completely forgot about Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember loving it.
Deena - Feb 05, 2011 6:17:43 am PST #13898 of 28290
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
One of the things I remember most about Great Expectations was Miss Havisham's wedding feast, all decaying on the table.