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.
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.
Random House tweeted the sad news that author Brian Jacques has died.
it would be perfect for our "Books and the Bookish" salon
One of my favorite novels about books is Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley. [link] Utterly charming with a 39-year-old heroine who is smart, brave, determined and funny. It's actually one of my favorite books ever.