Spike ,'Get It Done'
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."
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.
Heh.
The Banana Breakfast early into Gravity's Rainbow is memorable. Though it is but one long scene.
The "Eat" section of "Eat, Pray, Love" is the best part of the book.
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.
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!
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.
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.
One of the things I remember most about Great Expectations was Miss Havisham's wedding feast, all decaying on the table.
Isabel Allende's Aphrodite is technically a cookbook, but it is more a story about the eroticism of food, with occasional recipes thrown in. It's a wonderful mix of stories, information and some recipes with commentary at the end.
I read it like a novel, and it's charming enough that I have read it several times.