Anonymous
Post 03/20/2023 09:56     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Age of Innocence, Garlic and Sapphires
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2023 09:55     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
Martin Walker's mystery series set in the Dordogne has lovely descriptions of food. As a character, Bruno, Chief of Police, is kind of annoying, but he's an excellent cook.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2023 09:51     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
The Cookbook Collector - I didn't love the plot but the food descriptions stood out.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2023 09:36     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
Anonymous wrote:Pachinko -- the saga of a Korean family in Japan over nearly 100 years. I loved this book, which left me craving Korean food!

Search -- an LA Times food writer joins the search committee for a new minister at her Unitarian church. This novel hits all the right "church-y" beats, plus it has recipes (Pledge Drive Chicken, anyone?)!


I loved Search! As a UU, it killed me.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2023 09:36     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
Anonymous wrote:Both the Laurie Colwin ‘Home Cooking’ books. I learnt of her untimely death after I had read her books and looked to read more of her work and was so sad to hear that. A NYTimes article about her described her as the proto blogger and that is so true.


Love these books.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2023 09:13     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
The Red Sparrow series includes a recipe at the end of each chapter.
The first two books were tremendous, the last a little less so.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 21:29     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
It's a memoir but Stanley Tucci's book- Taste. He includes recipes as well.
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2023 00:38     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
The Diane Mott Davidson mystery series. The main character is a caterer. Another major character is studying to be a chef. Each book will have a few recipes and lots of descriptions of food and preparing food.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2023 19:12     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
Anonymous wrote:Pachinko -- the saga of a Korean family in Japan over nearly 100 years. I loved this book, which left me craving Korean food!

Search -- an LA Times food writer joins the search committee for a new minister at her Unitarian church. This novel hits all the right "church-y" beats, plus it has recipes (Pledge Drive Chicken, anyone?)!


Pachinko made me remember — Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana is also delicious reading.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2023 17:55     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune, by Roselle Lim

https://www.amazon.com/Natalie-Tans-Book-Luck-Fortune/dp/1984803255

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang.

Her other two books also have good food descriptions.

https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Quotient-Helen-Hoang-ebook/dp/B075HXST4P?ref_=ast_author_dp


Anonymous
Post 03/10/2023 15:49     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
Elin Hilderbrands books all have great food descriptions.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2023 15:46     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
Pachinko -- the saga of a Korean family in Japan over nearly 100 years. I loved this book, which left me craving Korean food!

Search -- an LA Times food writer joins the search committee for a new minister at her Unitarian church. This novel hits all the right "church-y" beats, plus it has recipes (Pledge Drive Chicken, anyone?)!
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2023 15:39     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
Nora Ephron books. Especially Heartburn. I still use the Dijon vinaigrette recipe from it 30 years after reading
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2023 15:37     Subject: Books that have really good food descriptions
Redwall and the Lies of Locke Lamora are both fantasy with frankly mouthwatering food descriptions

My mother says Nero Wolfe always makes her hungry
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2023 14:11     Subject: Re:Books that have really good food descriptions
Crying in H Mart. It's a sad but beautiful memoir about a young Korean American woman's connection through food to her dying/dead mother and mother's culture.