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Naomi Benaron’s Running the Rift takes place in Rwanda and a lot of the staple foods were unfamiliar to me, with the exception of a few vegetables. All of the food sounded delicious, and I took to the internet to look some of it up. Isombe is a stew made of cassava leaves, fresh vegetables, peanuts and peanut [...]
Food in books usually serves a purpose greater than just the delight of my food loving heart. What people eat and how they react to it gives insight into their socio-economic status, tastes and preferences and character. In The Beginner, by Rebecca Wolff, Ginger’s mother has a view of food the informs the way you [...]
I always feel like I have hit the jackpot when a character in a book is a chef. Yummy things are usually in store, and that is definitely the case in The First Husband by Laura Dave, due out next week. The novel is a delightful read, all about trying to figure life out in [...]
Food in books is not always plentiful or yummy, especially when you live in a dystopian society where the goal of food may be primarily for sustenance and nutrition, and not personal taste or pleasure. In Enclave by Ann Aguirre food is such a function of survival that it isn’t even named. It’s exactly what [...]
Lately, as I have considered food in book I have looked at the way that the food discussed contributes to the mood and shores up what is being communicated in the story. In Dark Mirror: A Novel by M.J. Putney the main character, Victoria starts off in an uncomfortable situation and far from home and [...]
Picky eater that I was growing up, it took me years to figure out that I liked sauces and I that I actually liked them over food instead of meticulously separated out and consigned to Siberia on my plate. The chances of me ordering something these days goes up immensely is it comes with a [...]
Though mentioned only briefly in Stranger Here Below, by Joyce Hinnefeld, spoon bread is mentioned a few times and it caught my attention as possibly being either southern in origin (from the sound of the name), or maybe a dish native to Kentucky. As it turns out, it is both Southern and a point of pride [...]
I love tarts. Love them. I think they were probably the first “sophisticated” dessert that I developed a taste for, which tells you something about my eating habits as a child. I was a very finicky eater. My mom often had to cook two versions of a dish so that I would have something to [...]
I wanted to do an interview one of the authors of the books competing in the upcoming Nerds Heart YA Tournament which was created last year as a YA to find and publicize underrepresented writers in YA. I was a judge last year and passed the winning book onto the final round. Tis year I [...]
I have never been a huge fan of either chocolate or coffee, but there are some things that I hear about that fall under the category of exception. Molten chocolate cakes fall into this category – I never met one that I didn’t like and devour after telling myself that I would only eat half. [...]
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