"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at "The Broke and the Bookish".
It is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.
Books that Make Me Hungry
(They could have food items on the cover, foods in the title, be about foodies or have food as a main plot point… they could be cookbooks or memoirs, etc.)
First I thought, oh dear, I won't have any links to books I read about food. My house is full of cookbooks and I use them all the time to find new interesting recipes for both baking and cooking but I never reviewed any of them … maybe I should start doing that. We'll see.
However, I have read a few books where they talk about food, where food is a big part of the book and where it's fun to see how people in different areas and different times integrate food into their lives.
However, I have read a few books where they talk about food, where food is a big part of the book and where it's fun to see how people in different areas and different times integrate food into their lives.
So, this is my selection this week:
Drinkwater, Carol "The Olive Series", "The Olive Harvest"
Ingalls Wilder, Laura "Little House Books"
Khorsandi, Shappi "A Beginner's Guide to Acting English"
Mayle, Peter "A Year in Provence"
Pool, Daniel "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew"
Nicoletti, Cara "Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books"
Numeroff, Laura "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
Scott, Mary Susan and Larry Series: "Breakfast at Six", "Dinner Doesn’t Matter", "Tea and Biscuits", "A Change from Mutton", "Turkey at Twelve", "Shepherd's Pie", "Strangers for Tea", "Board, but no Breakfast"
P.S. The picture shows some of my favourite food. Strawberries!!!
Food and travel, like the Carol Drinkwater books and the Peter Mayle books, are the best combination, I think.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. It's always part of the experience to try food from other countries (and bring some recipes home). I never understand people who only want their native food when in a foreign country.
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I loved the Olive Farm books! And Peter Mayle's who list!
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I've read all the Olive Farm books. Only the one from Peter Mayle, though. Until now.
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The Little House books were filled with delicious descriptions of food. I sometimes wonder if that's because Laura didn't always have enough to eat growing up.
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That could be part of it. I grew up at a time where you couldn't even get foreign food in a restaurant, I remember the first Italian ice cafés coming to our little town. And loved it from the beginning. I have always embraced foreign food, there is so much to enjoy.
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I loved a Year in Provence. I love strawberries too.
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I think we enjoy strawberries even move because we can only have them for a certain time of the year, at least if we want the good ones. They were also my children's favourite food, we always welcome the first good ones in the shops.
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strawberries are my favourite, too. have always been.
ReplyDeleteI know of Carol Drinkwater, Ingalls Wilder and Peter Mayle. the other titles are very interestings,too. I´m going to take a look at the titles of Pool and Nicoletti
As I said above ^^ I think we enjoy strawberries even move because we can only have them for a certain time of the year.
DeleteI'm sure you'll enjoy those books because they link food and literature in a great way. Happy Reading.
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Every time I read that Give a Mouse a Cookie book to my daughter, I would want a freaking cookie!
ReplyDeleteSame here. I still love that book, probably could recite it by heart. Both my boys loved it. LOL
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Those strawberries are beautiful! They look delicious.
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I think it's partly the bowl, as well. ;) But no, strawberries are always lovely.
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Strawberries are in season here, and they are just lovely! I couldn't go past this title "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" -- what an interesting book this sounds like!
ReplyDeleteOh, really? Doesn't spring just start over there? Our season here is over, you can still buy them but they are generally flown in from "God knows where" or from the greenhouse, so I am not too keen on buying them.
DeleteIf you are interested in the stories behind Jane Austen's stories and other authors from that time, this is definitely the book for you. Did you check my link? I loved the book, even though I had read a lot about live in the 19th century already.
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is a classic! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. It's more then twenty years that I read them to my boys. They both really loved them and therefore, they are great memories for me.
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I do love novels with food as a focal point. My favorite was Great Kitchens of the Midwest by J Ryan Stradal.
ReplyDeleteThere are weeks where I think it's really easy to fill the Top Ten but this one was quite hard for me. I still found some.
DeleteI do wish I had as much time to read the books as you come up with new interesting suggestions. I'll have to investigate into this one.
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I love that you included If You Give a Mouse a Cookie this week! One of my childhood favorites, but it didn't even cross my mind.
ReplyDeleteThanks. That's probably because you grew up with it and childhood seems so far away. I read them to my sons (who are probably your age if this was one of your childhood favourites as it was theirs, as well) and therefore think it was only yesterday. LOL
DeleteBut yes, it's a great book.
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Some authors have a great way for titles with food in it, right?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. Though not all of them are really books about food. Still, I had fun choosing those kind of titles and will have to look for which cook books I'll review soon.
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