I love reading about food in books. I like to cook and I love to eat even more. So some Friday’s I’ll be sharing the culinary delights that I have come across in my reading. What better way to start off the weekend than thinking about good food in a good book?
This week’s words about Food come from The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Breakfast was laid out in the dining room, and I would take mine first, then go to bed for a few hours. I raided the larder. A pot of tea, boiled eggs, toast, home-made gooseberry jam, cornflakes, home-made yogurt and scones. Heaven! Nuns always have a lot of home-made food, I had discovered. The preserves came from the many church bazaars and sales that seemed to go on throughout the year. The delicious cakes and biscuits and crunchy bread were either made by nuns or by the many local women who came to work in the Nonnatus House.
Have you come across any good food in your reading this week?
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It cracks me up how you zero in on the one passage in a book that mentions food.
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I notice because I usually then want to eat whatever is mentioned or I start thinking of my own variation of the dish.
Somehow I think I’ve come across any food passages in my reading this week, but I can’t recall any specific passages. I’ll keep a look-out from now on though.
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It’s so sad when there is no good in books!
You always make me hungry with these!
The only thing I read about food this week was a description of some very bad peanut nougat “bob bon” that had the consistency of chalk but then adhered to the person’s teeth. It was in The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, which is set in the 1860s, so the good news is that readers won’t risk ever encountering the candy itself.
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Bad peanut nougat does not sound appetizing at all. I’m surprised that a book with a name like The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire wouldn’t have some good food in it.
Great idea to feature food books on Friday. I love to read foodie books too. I am finishing up Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. (Review should be posted by Monday.) My favorites are by Ruth Reichl, especially her Garlic and Sapphires. There had been a challenge called Books About Food that ended in March. It was a lot of fun. I’ll keep watching your Friday posts.
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Margot, thanks for the recommendation. I am going to go and read your review if Kitchen Confidential. I love reading about food!
Nicole,
You have seriously made me hungry, heck I’m tempted to go move in with some nuns!!!
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It does seem like the convent has some advantages!
Nice one!! I can’t get your feed to update in my reader . . . Grrr. I figure it out.
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It’s been giving me so many problems. I think if you unsubcribe and re-subscribe it should work now. At least it’s finally showing that I have subscribers again.
Great idea! I love foodie books and I’m impressed that you could zero in on food in a book on Midwives! BTW, I’ve added The Midwife to my Friday Finds post, it’s going on my wishlist.
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Bonnie, I think you will really enjoy The Midwife. I loved it from start to finish.
There is an award awaiting you at A Novel Menagerie in the Sunday Salon Post!
Sheri
P.S. I just love your blog comment picture… you’re so pretty!
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Thank you so much for the compliment, Sheri! And the award!