books that make you HUNGRY!!!!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:14 pm
No - I am not talking cook books here!
I am talking regular novels that are so filled with descriptions of food that sound so gloriously yummy that you find drool running down your chin!
I just got done reading a novel from Vietnam called Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong. The book itself was lovely - told of how decades of war tore apart families and the socieity of Vietnam - but told in such a gentle voice that you end up with a lot of hope for the future of the people of that land. But it was also filled with all of these glorious descriptions of food - lovingly prepared and sounding delicious beyond measure. As soon as my Jeep is out of the shop, I will be going to a Vietnamese restaurant, as the food descriptions in that book are so divine!
I must have Vietnamese food, and soon!!! 
And there is this mystery series by Nancy Fairbanks. The first two books are called Crime Brulee and Truffled Feathers, which were both fun - and someone recently gifted me with the third - Death A L'Orange, which I have not had time to read yet. The sleuth spends only part of each book trying to solve the mystery. The sleuth is a food writer, so most of the books are spent traveling to a distant city where she goes to all of the leading restaurants and eats the best foods and regional specialties - and the food is described in loving and minute detail. The first book was in pre-Katrina New Orleans, the second in NYC. The third looks as if it will be France, and I know that one will kill me.
Or quickly increase my VISA, as I might be compelled to seek out really good French food immediately and often.
I am talking regular novels that are so filled with descriptions of food that sound so gloriously yummy that you find drool running down your chin!
I just got done reading a novel from Vietnam called Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong. The book itself was lovely - told of how decades of war tore apart families and the socieity of Vietnam - but told in such a gentle voice that you end up with a lot of hope for the future of the people of that land. But it was also filled with all of these glorious descriptions of food - lovingly prepared and sounding delicious beyond measure. As soon as my Jeep is out of the shop, I will be going to a Vietnamese restaurant, as the food descriptions in that book are so divine!
I must have Vietnamese food, and soon!!! And there is this mystery series by Nancy Fairbanks. The first two books are called Crime Brulee and Truffled Feathers, which were both fun - and someone recently gifted me with the third - Death A L'Orange, which I have not had time to read yet. The sleuth spends only part of each book trying to solve the mystery. The sleuth is a food writer, so most of the books are spent traveling to a distant city where she goes to all of the leading restaurants and eats the best foods and regional specialties - and the food is described in loving and minute detail. The first book was in pre-Katrina New Orleans, the second in NYC. The third looks as if it will be France, and I know that one will kill me.
Or quickly increase my VISA, as I might be compelled to seek out really good French food immediately and often. 