Also Chocolat by Joanne Harris, and if I remember correctly Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club had a whole lot to do with food, too.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Amy - Feb 04, 2011 11:57:37 am PST #13873 of 28706
Because books.
-t - Feb 04, 2011 11:59:49 am PST #13874 of 28706
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 12:22:11 pm PST #13875 of 28706
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Last Chinese Chef
How funny, one of the salonistas was just raving about A Cup of Light (by the same author) this morning.
Any classics besides Tom Jones? I don't want to have to resort to The Jungle.
Deena - Feb 04, 2011 12:23:19 pm PST #13876 of 28706
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks for the groupon heads' up, Steph. Score!
-t - Feb 04, 2011 12:27:45 pm PST #13877 of 28706
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, I'll have to look for that.
Typo Boy - Feb 04, 2011 1:03:59 pm PST #13878 of 28706
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Gabriela Cloves and Cinammon. But food was important to most of what Amado wrote.
megan walker - Feb 04, 2011 1:11:17 pm PST #13879 of 28706
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Gabriela Cloves and Cinammon.
I'd never heard of that, but I checked the description on Goodreads and now I want to read it.
I came across these on Goodreads food/novel lists: Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) and The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
I haven't read either, do they have big meal scenes?
Typo Boy - Feb 04, 2011 1:23:12 pm PST #13880 of 28706
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
To me not one of Amado's best though often the one people start with cause of the movie. My favorites: "Tent of Miracles" and "Shepherds of the Night". (latter is really a series of related short stories in the same setting and with the same characters. Like a TV series with an arc.)
Kate P. - Feb 04, 2011 1:28:46 pm PST #13881 of 28706
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
TB, my DH just picked up Tent of Miracles recently -- we're going on a spree of reading books about Brazil, to prepare for our honeymoon there. Now I want to read it too! I was sort of thinking I'd try to pick up Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon or Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in a trade paperback while we're there.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 04, 2011 1:53:51 pm PST #13882 of 28706
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
If you want a juvenile book that is all about food, I have never read a book that was more like food porn than Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy.