One of the things I remember most about Great Expectations was Miss Havisham's wedding feast, all decaying on the table.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Deena - Feb 05, 2011 6:17:43 am PST #13898 of 28282
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Strix - Feb 05, 2011 7:00:28 am PST #13899 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
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.
megan walker - Feb 05, 2011 7:26:25 am PST #13900 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Isabel Allende's Aphrodite
Her Daughter of Fortune came up on some food lists too.
sj - Feb 05, 2011 8:27:52 am PST #13901 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
NSFW: Book Cover Clones.
Kat - Feb 06, 2011 2:47:39 pm PST #13902 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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?
megan walker - Feb 06, 2011 6:07:29 pm PST #13903 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 07, 2011 3:55:59 am PST #13904 of 28282
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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).
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2011 4:05:02 am PST #13905 of 28282
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Cryptonomicon has an entire chapter devoted to Cap'n Crunch.
megan walker - Feb 07, 2011 5:06:17 am PST #13906 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Cryptonomicon has an entire chapter devoted to Cap'n Crunch.
If only that were food.
sumi - Feb 07, 2011 6:30:01 am PST #13907 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Random House tweeted the sad news that author Brian Jacques has died.