Win a book #5: Tasty Tomes
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17 thoughts on “Win a book #5: Tasty Tomes”
Two books come to mind right away. The first is Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival, a Mexican novel about women, food, magic, power. It’s a tasty novel including recipes. The second is Midnight in the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates. You can practically taste and smell the food cooking in that kitchen!
J.K rowling puts a lot of food scenes in his books! I like the one where the students at Hogwarts drink pumpkin juice, and butter beer, she describes them so much!
Even in the hunger games!
Being as much of a food lover as I am so never miss a chance to try something new. To level with my all fellow book worms, every meal is a like new book regardless of how many times you’ve tried it there’s always a chance for somethng new to be there; a missed inuendo or a secret seasoning.So when my two joys cross paths, I can’t be happier. Reading “Where the Moon Meets The Mountain” by Grace Lin I could feel my taste buds tinggling at the desciption of the Moon’s dumplings! That night my family for the first time had dumplings, inspired by that book we have them quite frequently now.
The most delicious description of food I’ve ever read was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By Roald Dahl when Grandpa Joe marvels at Willy Wonka’s creations. It truly made my mouth water and I could taste and smell the deliciousness of the chocolate and candy!
“Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds’ eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little DARKRED sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul:Food and Love has stories on how food brings people together. The description of the food in the book sounds soo tasty and mouth watering. As i finished reading the book, i kept yearning for more because the author was creating mental images of food in my head by the help of pleasing descriptive words.
Well I don’t recall any memories of descriptions of food in books but I do remember this one time I went to a restaurant and their descriptions for their desserts were scrumptious! š
It has to be Harry Potter’s butterbeer! Warm liquid butterscotch…it’s such a vivid description that you can’t help craving sweets. Not that I don’t do enough of that already.
Still there, Claire by Yvonne Prinz
When Clare was at the diner, describing their amazing rich-cream filled pies, root beer floats, and perfectly salted fries, I was so tempted to just eat the pages.
The description of the food in the first hunger games novel was great. Katniss hadn’t tasted or even heard of some of the foods and the impression it made on her and in turn the reader was amazing. I liked the part with the hot chocolate best : )
Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey, when Jessica tries from a pastry shop in Romania a dessert called Papanasi. Throughout the book the characters complain about the food that they eat. Since Papanasi was the best food eaten, it was also the best described food.
Squire, written by Tamora Pierce
It wasn’t the most important part of the book, but it was the part where I suddenly felt like I was starving, and I was trying really hard not to drool all over the pages. Kel, a squire and the main character, was at a feast with her knight master and the royals. It was time for desert, and beautifully decorated sweets were placed onto the table. A winged horse was placed at the center of the table, and Kel had been too scared to slice a slab of the cake, fearing that it would destroy the art!
While I was reading, it was like torture, the food was right in front of me, but no matter how hard I tried, I could not actually eat it. I almost skipped the chapter, but at the end, I controled my anger and fustration by eating a big slice of cake while reading.
James and the Giant Peach! Poor James Henry Trotter rolls away in this peach growing in his backyard. Thereās one time where I catch him eating his way through the peach – the yummy sweet and sticky orange juices dripping off his face made me want to eat peaches too!
Yann Martelās howler monkey Virgil describing a pear to the donkey Beatrice in his book āBeatrice and Virgilā always gives me a craving for pears. Who else has managed to describe the shape, texture, and smell of a pear so thoroughly that you can almost taste it?
It certainly was a book with lots of food! Especially sweets!
I was reading one of those food magazines and the way they described the cake made my mouth water. The picture helped too. Everything sounded great in that magazine!
thats a good one
In merits of mischief by T.R. burns Seamus Hinkle’s favourite food is fish sticks that are soft from the inside and flaky on the outside. He dips them once in mayonnaise and once in honey mustard. I don’t really like fish but I can’t help but crave it !