Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

Use this Topic to discuss books you are reading or that fit the 7th Scavenger Hunt task.

Task 7: Read a book with food in the title or in which food plays an essential role.

I am thinking Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Other ideas:

Like Water for Chocolate
Cakes and Ale
Cheese
The Grapes of Wrath
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Cider with Rosie
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Cider House Rules
The Water Margin
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Eva Trout
The Mandarins
In Watermelon Sugar
Sexing the Cherry
The Invention of Curried Sausage
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo (like the sandwich)
The Water Babies
Against the Grain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hunger
New Grub Street
The Real Charlotte (like the dessert)
Fruits of the Earth
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Cane
Some Prefer Nettles
Naked Lunch
Breakfast of Champions
Black Water
Rabbit, Run
Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit Redux17]
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Giles Goat-Boy
The Year of the Hare
Mother's Milk
Burger's Daughter
Leaden Wings
The House of the Spirits
Play It As It Lays (chips)
The Pigeon
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Feast of the Goat

I’m planning on Master and Margarita! :)

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote is already on my 2022 docket, so might as well go with that.

Already planned to read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test next month anyway, so going with that one.

I'm thinking I will use Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz aka If This is a Man, because most of the camp prisoners suffered malnutrition, often to the point of death, or contributing to death by diseases. Getting additional food was a focus of camp life.

George P. wrote: "I'm thinking I will use Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz aka If This is a Man, because most of the camp prisoners suffered malnutrition, often to the point of death, or contributing t..."

I think that's a great take on this task

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, no, not the title, but there are bountiful discussions of the food being eaten in the many households Tchitchikov visits. I was going to go with Rob Roy, since that's a beverage, but thought that would be stretching it.

Read In Watermelon Sugar for this task. How do some of these books ever get placed on the list?????

I read Quartet in Autumn and realized that it actually fits this topic: there are frequent discussions of how much elderly people eat.

Food plays a recurring theme in The Daughter. Either food or lack of food. If they are not eating food or talking about food, they are thinking about food. Even befriending food.

Realized that Castle Richmond, which I have already read would count, since it takes place in, frequently mentions, and some plot involves the Irish potato famine.

I read Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote for this challenge.

I'm now reading If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, about his time in the Auschwitz camp during World War 2. Food did play an essential role for survival. This is my 3rd book by Levi.

Kimberly wrote: "Read In Watermelon Sugar for this task. How do some of these books ever get placed on the list?????"

I read it and I agree.

I've finished If This is a Man, though I'm still reading his appendix, in which he answers readers' common questions.
Food is almost constantly in mind for the inmates of the "lager" (concentration camp), for example, "then he drifted onto the subject of food...and recalls, with genuine regret, that he failed to finish his third bowl of bean soup. And everyone tells him to keep quiet, but within ten minutes Bela is describing a recipe for sweet polenta- with roasted grains, and lard, and spices". The inmates often have dreams of food they have eaten in the past as well. In the camp it was the scarcity of food that was a central part of the experience.
Now I have two books left to finish the Hunt, and am reading one of them (Hunchback of Notre Dame).