Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
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.
Isabel Allende's Aphrodite
Her Daughter of Fortune came up on some food lists too.
NSFW: Book Cover Clones.
Megan, What about Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery who wrote the Hedgehog book. Which I didn't love, but I did like Gourmet Rhapsody.
Also, (not a food book) but by the same imprint, I'm reading A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse. Have you read it?
What about Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery who wrote the Hedgehog book. Which I didn't love, but I did like Gourmet Rhapsody.
Good to know. I came across that but dismissed it because I had put down Hedgehog after just a couple of pages.
I haven't read the other, but it would be perfect for our "Books and the Bookish" salon, for which I'm reading a few short things including The Reader, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, and maybe Miss Pym Disposes.
The Banana Breakfast early into Gravity's Rainbow is memorable. Though it is but one long scene.
Unfortunately there's that OTHER eating scene in there.
As for Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has some lovely descriptions of chocolate (and other sweets).
Cryptonomicon has an entire chapter devoted to Cap'n Crunch.