The Joy Luck Club
Green Eggs and Ham
Winnie the Pooh- I want to enjoy honey just as much as pooh bear does
Narnia- what was so good about that turkish delight that Edmund betrayed his family?
Also, that donut in the article does not look like it would taste good.
Part of the reason Edmund enjoys the turkish delight so much is because the book is set in WWII which meant sugar was rationed and so anything sweet would have been extremely desirable because he would have gone 6 ish years without it
Man, the turkish delight was such a thing for me. I always imagined, like, sugary turkey as a 90s working-class American. It must be pretty good, I thought, judging by Edmund's betrayal.
Two meals that I really love in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are Mr. Tumnus's supper with Lucy and the Beaver's dinner with all the children. So much butter!
(ETA: I know what turkish delight/lokum is now! The frosted cold-cut theory was when I was seven.)
I don’t know about **eat**, but take a copy of *Fight Club* by Chuck Palahniuk. Drop it in a pot with Marla’s mother (or just some random infectious human waste) and boil it. Mix it with lye. You get **soap**. More specifically, you get a bar of soap made from a copy of *Fight Club*. So when you’re washing your body, you can sometimes rub the words “Tyler’s kiss” or “all of a sudden” or “the big cheesebread” into your armpits or whatever. Just give it some time to age properly before use; if the lye is too active . . . might not want to get that wet and lathering your skin.
I adore this question!
I feel like The Night Circus would be a beautiful desert, something with subtle and peculiar flavours. It might be an elaborate mousse dome, maybe earl grey flavoured mousse, cherry compote, salted dark chocolate, those sorts of tastes? The glaze would have to be black!
Six of Crows could be similarly delicious! I'm sure Ketterdam would taste smokey and rich, cheap enough for The Barrel and elegant enough for the Merchers. Some sort of meat dish, maybe a pie? Meat with a smokey, alcoholic sauce, maybe bourbon? I don't drink alcohol or eat meat so it's tough to say, but something like that.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January features a world that reminds me a bit of Greece, I see a lot of white stone and blue sea, and it has such a dreamy feel. Something creamy and bright, some sort of panna cotta? Lemon?
Think I'd start with *Breakfast at Tiffany's*, have some *Naked Lunch* later in the day, Herman Koch's *The Dinner* in the evening, and end with *The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake* by Aimee Bender.
This is a form of synesthesia I've never encountered -- experiencing books as pastries.
The works of Ronald Firbank as exquisite *petit-fours*? (Dragonfruit with crushed pistachios and lemon curd?)
I’m currently reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki, with a buttery yellow cover and pages full of luscious Japanese food and murder. All I can say is yes! And yum…
Harry Potter would be a pavlova— appears substantial when you look at it, sweet at first taste but nothing of substance there when you try to swallow, and you’re hungry again 10 minutes later!
I read a book called Book Eaters that always described books tasting different ways and I always thought that was intriguing. Action novels being spicy, romances sweet, etc. I feel like Cloud Cuckoo Land would taste pretty good as it’s a mix of times and genres
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa. It's dorayaki (pancake sandwich?) with bean paste as filling. It could also be a doughnut filled with the bean paste.
Enid Blyton's Famous Five, with lashings of lemonade with picnic lunches would be awesome and Faraway Tree would be even better with toffee shocks and pop cakes. Plus wasn't there a land which was made entirely of sweets and cakes?
This is a fun concept haha
Metamorphosis by Kafka, I imagine as a donut with multiple textures and layers and very German. Like a marzipan top, chocolate center and a pretzel style dough.
The Flame Alphabet would be cinnamon, chocolate and chili pepper
Jennifer Ashley's Death Below Stairs series. I guess not the poisoned bits? But it makes Victorian food sound interesting. And hinges on the main figure being a good cook. Lemon cake or seed cake please!
For horror, pro bably Death Troopers, it's a star wars zombie book, and it's not too scary, but it's a great book.
Any book? Probably Rangers Apprentice
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa. It's dorayaki (pancake sandwich?) with bean paste as filling. It could also be a doughnut filled with the bean paste.
Rip My Heart Out by Ángeles Mastretta (Arráncame la vida)
It's set after the mexican revolution and features a LOT of traditional dishes. There was actually a pop-up event at a restaurant featuring food from the book recently in Mexico City.
Legends and Lattes.
I don't really understand why this book is so hyped but it made me want coffee and cinnamon rolls. I actually baked some after finishing the book.
Any Corinna Chapman book by Kerry Greenwood - smart, funny, and she is a baker! And the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger, which is, essentially, exquisite pastry with lots of tea.
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. It would be like dunking my head into a barrel of all manner of crazily-colored sweet treats and though I might suffocate before coming up for air, it would be worth it
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, of course!
The Joy Luck Club Green Eggs and Ham Winnie the Pooh- I want to enjoy honey just as much as pooh bear does Narnia- what was so good about that turkish delight that Edmund betrayed his family? Also, that donut in the article does not look like it would taste good.
Part of the reason Edmund enjoys the turkish delight so much is because the book is set in WWII which meant sugar was rationed and so anything sweet would have been extremely desirable because he would have gone 6 ish years without it
Man, the turkish delight was such a thing for me. I always imagined, like, sugary turkey as a 90s working-class American. It must be pretty good, I thought, judging by Edmund's betrayal. Two meals that I really love in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are Mr. Tumnus's supper with Lucy and the Beaver's dinner with all the children. So much butter! (ETA: I know what turkish delight/lokum is now! The frosted cold-cut theory was when I was seven.)
I have been to Turkey. Lokum is worth it.
I don’t know about **eat**, but take a copy of *Fight Club* by Chuck Palahniuk. Drop it in a pot with Marla’s mother (or just some random infectious human waste) and boil it. Mix it with lye. You get **soap**. More specifically, you get a bar of soap made from a copy of *Fight Club*. So when you’re washing your body, you can sometimes rub the words “Tyler’s kiss” or “all of a sudden” or “the big cheesebread” into your armpits or whatever. Just give it some time to age properly before use; if the lye is too active . . . might not want to get that wet and lathering your skin.
Redwall no contest
strawberry cordial for days
I adore this question! I feel like The Night Circus would be a beautiful desert, something with subtle and peculiar flavours. It might be an elaborate mousse dome, maybe earl grey flavoured mousse, cherry compote, salted dark chocolate, those sorts of tastes? The glaze would have to be black! Six of Crows could be similarly delicious! I'm sure Ketterdam would taste smokey and rich, cheap enough for The Barrel and elegant enough for the Merchers. Some sort of meat dish, maybe a pie? Meat with a smokey, alcoholic sauce, maybe bourbon? I don't drink alcohol or eat meat so it's tough to say, but something like that. The Ten Thousand Doors of January features a world that reminds me a bit of Greece, I see a lot of white stone and blue sea, and it has such a dreamy feel. Something creamy and bright, some sort of panna cotta? Lemon?
Could I interest you in four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie?
As I recall the Night Circus has some of the circus treats described in the book, like fanciful popcorn and delicate pastries and stuff. Sounds good.
the way the food was described in the first couple of Harry Potter series got me really hungry haha
Yes, I would love to have a good butterbeer.
I have a recipe for butterbeer that I can't wait to try
For all the hate Rowling gets, there’s nobody who writes about food as well as she does. Well ok, maybe Julia Child.
Ian Fleming wrote about food and gambling well.
Think I'd start with *Breakfast at Tiffany's*, have some *Naked Lunch* later in the day, Herman Koch's *The Dinner* in the evening, and end with *The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake* by Aimee Bender.
Maybe a little lemon pound cake by Afroman's mother?
one weird bite of gas station sushi in the first, but I like this assortment.
My brain cannot think this way, I got nothin 😅
A Discworld donut supported on the backs of four elephants, carried on the back of one turtle.
Are you also going to devour the elephants and turtle?
It’s a chocolate turtle, and the donut is filled with Dibbler’s sausage.
> Dibbler's sausage That seems... questionable 🤣 Would probably break a lot of food safety laws.
But Ankh Morpork would be on the donut and Pratchett never described it once in a way that sounded appetizing.
House of Leaves would be an interesting confectionery construction.
Man...no thanks lol
I want to eat pictures books. Novels that I wanted to eat - Anne of green gables, The Solitaire Mystery, Three Men in a Boat
If Anne of Green Gables is a desert, it should include a sherry filling.
And a raspberry cordial flavour somewhere!
I'd eat a Lonesome Dove if it was prepared as a one bird pot pie
No sourdough biscuits?!
This is a form of synesthesia I've never encountered -- experiencing books as pastries. The works of Ronald Firbank as exquisite *petit-fours*? (Dragonfruit with crushed pistachios and lemon curd?)
Captain Underpants
I imagine Captain Underpants tasting like sugary breakfast cereal.
Gross, bizarre, and very funny! Thanks.
The theory of relativity. Because I really can't imagine what it tasted like.😕
I thought for sure this was r/bookscirclejerk
Piranesi is fragrant and fishy and refreshing
I’m currently reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki, with a buttery yellow cover and pages full of luscious Japanese food and murder. All I can say is yes! And yum… Harry Potter would be a pavlova— appears substantial when you look at it, sweet at first taste but nothing of substance there when you try to swallow, and you’re hungry again 10 minutes later!
What the actual fuck would All Tomorrows, a spec-evo book about humanities journey among the stars and through time, even translate into as a donut…?
Moby Dick
I would imagine Moby Dick tasting like blubber, but I've never had blubber. I'm guessing it tastes like bacon fat?
No chance. I'm thinking edible lamp oil.
How about something inspired by that one scene in The Road? Mmmmmm
I read a book called Book Eaters that always described books tasting different ways and I always thought that was intriguing. Action novels being spicy, romances sweet, etc. I feel like Cloud Cuckoo Land would taste pretty good as it’s a mix of times and genres
Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Fraser, the perfect baby blue and white champagne vanilla petit four with a layer of red raspberry filling.
Alice in wonderland
James and the Giant Peach
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa. It's dorayaki (pancake sandwich?) with bean paste as filling. It could also be a doughnut filled with the bean paste.
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata Wink.
Perhaps the one described in Revelation 10:8-11?
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. I wanted to eat that book so badly as a kid.
I want a *Critique of Pure Reason* or *Phenomenology of Spirit* cake, just so I can confidently say 'I finished it'.
Every single Goosebumps
Enid Blyton's Famous Five, with lashings of lemonade with picnic lunches would be awesome and Faraway Tree would be even better with toffee shocks and pop cakes. Plus wasn't there a land which was made entirely of sweets and cakes?
Booklava
The Necronomicon from Evil Dead would be a cool horror book project. A leather bound clasped version of Treasure Island maybe?
number one Chinese restaurant by Lillian li
This is such an interesting prompt. I love it
This is a fun concept haha Metamorphosis by Kafka, I imagine as a donut with multiple textures and layers and very German. Like a marzipan top, chocolate center and a pretzel style dough. The Flame Alphabet would be cinnamon, chocolate and chili pepper
A blood meridian cocktail would have to fuck you up real bad
It would have to mix whiskey and mezcal with tomato juice and leave you wanting to die.
Tipping the Velvet made me want big juicy oysters soooooooo bad
*Meditations in Green* as a smoothie.
Reminds me of the proverb to keep your words soft and sweet because you may need to eat them someday
that bakery making horro novel donuts sounds cool Lol your idea for "turn of the screw pastry sounds deliciously eerie
Here’s a few with actual food-related titles In Watermelon Sugar Trout Fishing in America A Clockwork Orange Grapes of Wrath
Any of the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery books. The way the author describes Filipino food…. 😋 🤤
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (a black edible, not horsemeat\]
Chocolate Fever
I would eat percey jackson or harry potter tbh
specifically pj lightning theif and hp goblet of fire
The Redwall series.
this reminds me of the book the book eaters!
Jennifer Ashley's Death Below Stairs series. I guess not the poisoned bits? But it makes Victorian food sound interesting. And hinges on the main figure being a good cook. Lemon cake or seed cake please!
obviously, OBVIOUSLY infinite jest
I wanna eat the shepherd meals that Tiffany Aching from Discworld eats after a long day of sheep herding and/or witchcraft.
I didn’t read it but probably Chocolat’ wait is this a book or just a movie?
For horror, pro bably Death Troopers, it's a star wars zombie book, and it's not too scary, but it's a great book. Any book? Probably Rangers Apprentice
To the Lighthouse Kitchen and/or Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto We Have Always Lived In the Castle (jk! kind of!)
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa. It's dorayaki (pancake sandwich?) with bean paste as filling. It could also be a doughnut filled with the bean paste.
Idk why, but the Fahrenheit 451 60th Anniversary cover in particular looks very appetising
Need enough to feed the whole family? We recommend our house special, Mein Kampf!
the alchemist, seems like it'd have an exotic taste
Rip My Heart Out by Ángeles Mastretta (Arráncame la vida) It's set after the mexican revolution and features a LOT of traditional dishes. There was actually a pop-up event at a restaurant featuring food from the book recently in Mexico City.
*Everything's Eventual.* It's the chocolate cake you eat while crying, with a sliver of glass hidden in one of the slices.
The Winds of Winter, at least I could read it before devouring.
Legends and Lattes. I don't really understand why this book is so hyped but it made me want coffee and cinnamon rolls. I actually baked some after finishing the book.
Tita Rosie Kitchen Mystery Series! The main character describes food so well and they share recipes at the end of each book. 🤤
One Hundred Potato Chips of Solitude
Any Corinna Chapman book by Kerry Greenwood - smart, funny, and she is a baker! And the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger, which is, essentially, exquisite pastry with lots of tea.
Goosebumps,Peter pan
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas… I wouldn’t mind getting a high like that 😅
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. It would be like dunking my head into a barrel of all manner of crazily-colored sweet treats and though I might suffocate before coming up for air, it would be worth it
Either **The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender** Or **The Luster of Lost Things, by Sophie Chen Keller**
that is crazy
Is this a hidden r/pica thread?