I love to read
and I love to cook.
and I love to cook.I love to read cook books....but what I have discovered is...I love to read stories with food and cooking woven through it.....FICTION or NON FICTION...Im not fussy. I remember my first bookclub I joined in W.A the first book I read was Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival. Which I really enjoyed and we talked it through so lovingly with food in our hearts and mouths( I love a good bookclub meeting with plenty of food lots of talk, laughter and freedom to say what you want) that was my first "taste" of food fiction .......OR so I thought. I started really thinking about it...and my FIRST memories of food through books was years before that....
Enid Blyton take a bow because I think you opened up so many little foodies with your fantastic stories of midnights feasts, treacle tarts,...and who still dreams of having one of
Moon-face's pop biscuits or a google bun( I bet it's got nothing to do with the internet)
Hurrah for the fantastic picnic baskets in The Famous Five with ham sandwiches,homemade lemonade or gingerbeer with ices after the adventure
(Iwondered what ices where for a while...wouldn't julian dick anne and george love the array of icecreams we have these days...almost TOO MANY to choose)
But I think the first of her books to show me the way was...Mr Pinkwhistle
He always went to or threw a fabulous party with all sorts of sweetys and divine sounding things.
So I have had a trip down memory lane and Im a bit older than I was when reading lovely Enid Blyton stories..and I have moved on to other books but still enjoy books with food through them. I just finished reading Pomegranate Soup By Marsha Mehran and I have started on The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones. Maeve Binchy wrote a couple of good ones for the light fluffy romantic foody type Scarlett Feather & Quentins.
I have put about 4 on hold to come in for me at the library...and on my list...there are another 35 books I have written down..and I am absolutely postive that more will be added to that list. I would love to hear recommendations from others who love the same.....ok happy reading dreaming about food..think I will go and have a mid morning snack pate, crackers and some king island double brie...mmmmm FOOD
I just bought Elizabeth David's Christmas. No glossy pics, no extraneous bits, just direct (if not a little blunt) recipes. I enjoy her style of writing more so because she was a visionary, everyone who has come after her, the Olivers, Lawsons etc are a pale shadow. hmmmmm perhaps I am a little biased?
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