tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post7484748336088258360..comments2024-03-01T00:32:17.498-05:00Comments on Read Write Believe: You can't trust a character who doesn't...Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-59491751198037441772009-11-20T06:12:35.975-05:002009-11-20T06:12:35.975-05:00Yummy contributions, all!
Maybe there should be ...Yummy contributions, all! <br /><br />Maybe there should be an anthology of food scenes from children's literature.... Except of course, it's the <i>context</i> that makes these meals so delicious or so poignant. Juicy details + emotional resonance = meals that stick with us in real life and in books!Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-21965342730558449652009-11-18T20:46:21.740-05:002009-11-18T20:46:21.740-05:00There are some great meals in Jane Austen's bo...There are some great meals in Jane Austen's books.<br /><br />I ditto Harry Potter. We were reading about butterbeer this morning, and all I could think was how much I wanted some myself. I'm always wanting to eat whatever food I'm reading about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-55522365230833510862009-11-18T10:30:06.545-05:002009-11-18T10:30:06.545-05:00Probably my all time favorite is Buddy and Sook...Probably my all time favorite is Buddy and Sook's fruitcake in Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory. That story wrenches my heart every time. And it makes me long for really good fruitcake- a rare commodity. For emotional if not culinary appeal I vote for the watery cabbage soup- the Bucket's standard fare in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... guess you won't want to come to dinner at my house!Tami Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592992627941738377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-28869373909524288552009-11-17T22:50:20.169-05:002009-11-17T22:50:20.169-05:00All I can think of is Bread and Jam for Francis - ...All I can think of is <em>Bread and Jam for Francis</em> - but I do remember well how she laid out her little lunch at school.<br /><br />I don't trust a character who says how funny she/he is. Being funny has to be proven by actually saying funny things, not be saying how funny one can be.MotherReaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11274509991340797264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-44290529093185526472009-11-17T21:44:07.116-05:002009-11-17T21:44:07.116-05:00Ooh! Ooh! Such fun questions. And I immediately th...Ooh! Ooh! Such fun questions. And I immediately thought of Jama -- but see she's already visited. <br /><br />Let's see...Max's hot supper. Just in theory, since we don't know what it is. Or how about that chicken meal when Coraline first meets her other mother. And the "digestive biscuits" she had with Miss Spink and Forcible always cracked me up. <br /><br />Hmm...How about: I can't trust a character who doesn't make mistakes of one kind or another.Jules at 7-Imphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439756778611468303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-24915167815348835582009-11-17T14:23:06.880-05:002009-11-17T14:23:06.880-05:00I read Farmer Boy aloud to the kids right after re...I read Farmer Boy aloud to the kids right after reading The Long Winter, when the Ingalls family lived on nothing but brown bread. How Laura must have relished writing the descriptions of the meals in Farmer Boy. Do you think she was recalling her own meager childhood meals?<br /><br />Yum, La Union!<br /><br />And, I don't trust a character who doesn't...read.Anamaria (bookstogether)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361389598002568007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824466663015731028.post-74999245255983168212009-11-17T13:50:23.744-05:002009-11-17T13:50:23.744-05:00Of course this post gets me right where I live. Fa...Of course this post gets me right where I live. Favorite meal? Definitely the attic meal from A Little Princess, Farmer Boy (entire book), tea with Mr. Tumnus, ceiling tea party in Mary Poppins,Christmas dinner from A Christmas Carol. There are too many, but I certainly love thinking about them :).jamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859083373087448194noreply@blogger.com