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    Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
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    11/27/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Mixing the chocolate candy with the raspberry candy in Pippi Longstocking. I keep trying to recreate that and failing.


    Pemmican in Swallows and Amazons (my brother and I demanded some, and were very disappointed).


    Mutton in Flambards.


    Suppengruen in The Past is Myself.


    Nell's doughnut cookies in My Friend Flicka.


    Warm bran mashes in Black Beauty (yes, I know it's horse food, but it sounds like tasty horse food).

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    11/27/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Despite the racist undertones that I was aware of even at the age of 8, the Bobbsey twins' cook Dinah always made the most delectable picnics. My mom could never figure out why I needed a tall, frothy glass of milk after reading one of their mysteries.
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    Image of SmillaSnow SmillaSnow
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    I always loved it when Beverly Clearly described the Quimby's outings at the Whopperburger.


    "A soft, juicy hamburger spiced with relish, French fries crisp on the outside and mealy inside, a little paper cup of cole slaw...."

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    11/27/08

    @SmillaSnow: I remember that description PERFECTLY! I think about it whenever I eat french fries.


    Remember the oozy-center pancakes, and eating fish with bones, making everyone look thoughtful?

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    11/28/08

    @SmillaSnow: That's one of my favorite scenes in her books, too, because they hadn't been out to dinner in months, and only went that day because they'd been arguing all day and their father wanted a pleasant meal. And then the man across the aisle treated them because they seemed like a nice family! I'm choking up just thinking about it.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    The Automats in "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler."
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Oh my GOD, duh.


    Martini's in "The Dud Avocado":


    "We had dry martinis; great wing-shaped glasses of perfumed fire, tangy as the early morning air."


    I love you, Elaine Dundy.

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    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    JEZZIES!


    I MADE A BLOG!


    [literaryfoodporn.blogspot.com]


    i shall update it every day!


    suggestions please!

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    Image of queenieinmanhattan queenieinmanhattan
    11/26/08

    @spikenard: Well, this thread is one HUGE suggestion! :-) I have subscribed and will send you tons of ideas as they come. Awesome blog!
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    Image of hatepaperdoll hatepaperdoll
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    The barbeque at Twelve Oaks in Gone With The Wind. The Martinis, chicken sandwich, milk, and soup in Frannie and Zooey, the Plover's eggs in Brideshead Revisted, the souffles in The Bonfire of the Vanities, the wine from the leather skins in The Sun Also Rises.
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    11/26/08

    @hatepaperdoll: Oh, and the cheese in Heidi!
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Not a book, but Billy Crystal and his Mallomars, circa When Harry Met Sally. He was right - they ARE the best (commercially-produced) cookie ever made.
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    Image of LadyNo Fondles Sweaters LadyNo Fondles Sweaters
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    The most important issue here, Jezzies, is Where the hell is TSCHEESE? I feel like this threa was MADE for her!
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    Image of merci merci
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    The feasts in the Redwall series were amazing. My best friend and I started making scones (this was in a pre-Starbucks world, mind you) after reading the chapter-long descriptions of the HUGE meals.
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    Image of Remedios Varo can't see no huevos. Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
    11/26/08

    @merci: So many people bugged Brian Jacques about the food in his books that finally came up with a Redwall cookbook: [www.amazon.com]
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Brian. Jacques.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    I was oddly fascinated by the crawdaddies in The Summer of My German Soldier as a child...and the egg creams in Harriet the Spy


    I'm still not sure what either of these are...

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    Image of Treeless Treeless
    11/26/08

    @gherkinfiend: Well, that tears it; I finally had to know for myself, because God did I want one because of that book...whatever it was.


    "This favorite New York City soda fountain drink has been popular since the 1930s. Egg creams don't contain a speck of egg but are so named because of the froth (resembling beaten egg whites) that crowns the drink. They're made with a mixture of milk and chocolate syrup into which seltzer water is spritzed, causing the mixture to foam enthusiastically."


    So it sounds sort of like a chocolate Italian soda.

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    Image of Ascendo_tuum Ascendo_tuum
    11/26/08

    @Treeless: I was SO excited to try one the first time I went to NYC. What a letdown. I practically gagged.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    11/26/08

    @Treeless: that doesn't sound good to me at all. But then again I'm not entirely sure what seltzer really is either.


    I should really get Googling...

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    11/26/08

    @gherkinfiend: Seltzer is just fizzy water? I thought it was much more glamorous than that...
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    FOOD. WANT. I am fucking famished. First the Thanksgiving edition of food porn, featuring the buche de noel, and now this. And we arent having din until 8 tonight. Stop talking about bacon drippings. Or bacon. Or sanwidges. Or ham. Oh for the love of God I am dying.
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    Image of queenieinmanhattan queenieinmanhattan
    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Ooooh, and, obviously, anything by Ruth Reichl. Though those aren't fiction. But still. The woman single-handedly addicted me to spaghetti carbonara.
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    11/26/08

    @queenieinmanhattan: Just the mention of her name makes my mouth water *drool*.
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    11/26/08

    @queenieinmanhattan: i haven't tried that recipe yet, but keep meaning to. it's good, then? it sounds so simple that i'm worried it'll be bland...
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    11/26/08

    @westward ho: Not bland at all! Just make sure to use plenty of pepper, and add some chopped raw scallions if you need veg/crunch/green.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Screw The Story's Plot: What Did They Have For Lunch?
    Maple candy in Little House in the Big Woods! Madeleine in Swann's Way! Complete lack of food/ham/cutlets in I Capture the Castle! All of the food in Elinor Lipman's (read her, you'll love her) Inn at Lake Devine!
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    11/26/08

    @queenieinmanhattan: Oh, and: the Christmas dinner in "Samantha's Christmas Story" was the first full meal I cooked "by myself," heavily assisted by my dad. (And, yes, I'm referring to the American Girl books. They had the recipes in the back.)
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