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books or stories about cooks, food and cooking? looking for ones that'll make you hungry. best if comedy.
it can be anything that contains comfy appetising passages
> the tastiest description of food you've ever read in a book?

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Remark does a pretty good job at conveying soldiers' eating habits

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First bit of Gravity’s Rainbow.

>> No.13024545

Unironically Redwall.

>> No.13024567

>>13024545
can you give some examples?
sometimes i try to cook something from a book (the meals are mostly real though, i dont read fantasy). homer's cheese barley wine made me wonder though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykeon

>> No.13024588

>>13024567
Shit, haven’t read them in ages. The author grew up during the Blitz, so good became very important to him, especially writing about it. Pastry, soup, bread, lots of hearty sort of English fare. And swashbuckling in between pages of feasts.