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A to Z Challenge, 2023 – Completions


Have you completed the A to Z Challenge, 2023 Food Edition?

First, congratulations!!

Now, post you achievement here.

Finished today with zero double-dips and 1 re-read!

My list is here (with a catalogue of all the food for every book I read) :
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Congratulations!!

Amanda wrote: "Finished today with zero double-dips and 1 re-read!

My list is here (with a catalogue of all the food for every book I read) :
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Congratulations! That was very quick!

Thanks Karen and Ellinor!

I finished this today.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I finished the challenge today. This is my completed list. I didn’t double-dip any titles. Thanks for another fun challenge!

Mia wrote: "I finished this today.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Congratulations!

caterspotaters wrote: "I finished the challenge today. This is my completed list. I didn’t double-dip any titles. Thanks for another fun challenge!"

Congratulations!

I finished this back in March, but just realized I forgot to post it here :)

Finished 3/5 - Thanks for the fun challenge!

I finished this today, 8/7, with ugali (steamed cornmeal loaf) found in the book Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Bob wrote: "I finished this today, 8/7, with ugali (steamed cornmeal loaf) found in the book Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o."

Congratulations!!

Kelly wrote: "I finished this back in March, but just realized I forgot to post it here :)

Finished 3/5 - Thanks for the fun challenge!"

Congratulations, Kelly!

I finished the challenge.

Dina wrote: "I finished the challenge."

Congratulations, Dina!

I finished this today after much shuffling around to get every letter covered.

Kimberly wrote: "I finished this today after much shuffling around to get every letter covered."

Congratulations, Kimberly!

Finished the challenge today!

You guys are impressive. This seems like an unusually tough challenge to me!

For me, the problem wasn't so much finding the foods but keeping track of them. Some books, usually French and German, had a lot of food items. The English just have tea and give few details. I could actually have completed the challenge with 2 of the French books I read. The Japanese and Vietnamese authors also provided more detailed descriptions of meals.

My favorite was the Forsyte Saga -- 3 volumes, and Galsworthy spends pages on a dinner party and only mentions "the mutton!" Or their meal in a restaurant as "gravified brown masses."

It was also difficult keeping track of foods in audiobooks, especially since I do a lot of listening while driving.

Completed today!.....just scraped in with a few juxtapositions of some books and foods.....this is my final list.

A: apples A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
B: bacon The Castle by Franz Kafka
C: chops The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
D: doughy rolls The Honorary Consul b Graham Greene
E: escargot The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
F: fried chicken The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
G: guava Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
H: ham A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I: ice-cream The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
J: Julienne soup A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
K: kipper Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
L: lima beans Rabbit, Run by John Updike
M: macaroni cheese Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
N: noodles The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
O: onions The Circle by Dave Eggers
P: porridgeSilas Marner by George Eliot
Q: queen cakes Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
R: ricotta Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
S: strawberries Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
T: tortillas Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
U: Udon Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
V: veal Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev
W: white soup Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread)
X: Xoi - sticky rice Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
Y: yeast Regeneration by Pat Barker
Z: zakuski Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Down to the wire to get the X, but finished today!

Beth's A-Z Foods

A: apples Pnin
B: brown rice Falling Man
C: crackers The Awakening
D: damsons Lady Chatterley's Lover
E: eggs Kitchen
F: fish Mother's Milk
G: grits Invisible Man
H: herring Tipping the Velvet
I: Ices The Story of the Lost Child
J: jam The Glimpses of the Moon
K: ketchup Vernon God Little
L: lamb Cakes and Ale
M: mashed potatoes Another World
N: nuts Daniel Deronda
O: Oysters Giovanni's Room
P: pheasant H is for Hawk
Q: quail Sentimental Education
R: rice Monkey King: Journey to the West
S: salmon The Sea, the Sea
T: thyme Quo Vadis
U: udon Kitchen
V: vegetables Of Love and Shadows
W: Wine Vanity Fair
X: Xoi Paradise of the Blind
Y: yellow dal Family Matters
Z: Zucchini I'm Not Scared