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Are there any decent novels with really good food descriptions? Something that would make the reader hungry while reading it.

>inb4 eat prey luv

>> No.4197668

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/bargain-book-bin-3.php

>> No.4197971

Bump for interest

>> No.4197981

try conn igguldens series on genghis khan and julius ceaser

>> No.4197984

>>4197664
Wow, that's unhealthy. Fucking fatsos.

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i am going to hold a banana breakfast one day.

>> No.4198040

Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery is filled with vivid descriptions of delicious French and Italian cuisine. The main character has substituted food for sex as his vice.

Also there's a lot of stuff about secret societies and 1800s spy things. And anti-Semitism. It's pretty good.

>> No.4198044

>>4197981
>two strips of bacon
>one egg
>approx. 100g cheese
>one pancake

How exactly is that unhealthy? Or are you just spouting uninformed bullshit again, anon?

>> No.4198071

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_rebours

>> No.4198109

A song of fire and ice has loads. Couldn't read that shit without the munchies every now and then.

>> No.4198114

Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout.

>> No.4198171

>>4197664
Thomas Wolfe is excellent at describing food and a much superior writer than any other mentioned in this thread. You will be starving while reading parts of his novels.

>> No.4198183

>>4198044
>100g cheese
>healthy

surely you jest

>> No.4198188

>>4197664
Anything by Ian Fleming. Bond was a hedonist and so was Ian. Also Thrilling Cities by him, wrote it when he was still a journalist, it's a pretty good travelogue.

>> No.4198350

>>4197664
White Fang made me want to eat raw pheasants.

>> No.4198375

>>4198183
idk how cheese isnt healthy? the fact that it tastes good really is proof it isnt healthy, if it werent healthy we'd have evolved to not like it, especially because it's been in existence so long. I can see some unhealthy stuff tasting good, because we haven't had time to evolve into disliking twinkies yet, but not cheese.

>> No.4198382

>>4198375
the fact that it tastes good really is proof it is*** healthy,sorry

>> No.4198559

Simenon spends almost as much time on food as detecting.

>> No.4198947

Brideshead Revisited

An actual quote from the novel: "The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed, separating each glaucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold."

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>>4198375

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Like Water for Chocolate is a novel by Laura Esquivel. It will fill your desire for a sumptuous read.

>> No.4199035

>>4199002
But it's terrible, it tries to see the world through the lens of crazy superstitious mexican women and delivers a bushel of broken aesops and incongruous bullshit.

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>>4198375
You fucking idiot.

>> No.4199050

This book was a huge success and later made into a movie, so clearly, some readers enjoyed it. Sorry you were not one of them.

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'The Debt to Pleasure' by John Lanchester was also quite good. Great story line.

>> No.4199062

>>4197664
Moby Dick

>Chowder
>Whale brains

>> No.4199292

A Raisin in the Sun has a really good description of cookies. Made muh mouf watah.

>> No.4200477

>>4197984
Got this off an /int/ food thread from one of the Yuropean posters.

>> No.4200490

Hemingway always makes me hungry as hell when he goes on about food.

>> No.4200510

>>4197664
>Something that would make the reader hungry while reading it
>>>/ck/

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The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Decent story with ridiculous descriptions of food. Not necessarily appetizing though. It also made me suspicious of fat women.

>> No.4200526

How has no one mentioned the Redwall series yet? Yea, they're young adult, but so much food description.

>> No.4200541

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.