Comments on: My two favorite things: books and food

By: Tiffany M.

Tiffany M. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:24:52 +0000

I actually remember the food from the Little House books, too! Well, at least the one in the big woods. I wanted more than anything to try a pig’s tail (I also remember the maple in the snow, but knew I had a better chance of trying the pig’s tail in socal). The Blue Sword began with scowling at a glass of orange juice (which was how I felt about the juice at the time). Sometimes I remember lines, even if I don’t write them down…like the last line of The Book Thief or a line mentioned by a secondary character that grabbed my heart in When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn. I guess there are different things for different books.

Dinner: My sister is making chicken with avacado, green beans and carrots, and mayhap brown rice.

By: Vickie B

Vickie B — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:27:37 +0000

Headcheese is from the pig they butchered every year, to the best of my recollection.

Harriet the Spy and her tomato sandwiches.

I don’t remember the food from Trixie Belden, but Nancy Drew could throw down from the food their housekeeper used to make.

Lunch was popcorn, dinner was babyback ribs and green beans and baked potato.

By: Carolyn Crane

Carolyn Crane — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:01:14 +0000

Oh, fun post. Headcheese reminds me of when I worked in a Deli, and I couldn’t believe people came in and ordered it!

But I love when food is lovingly and lavishly described, and when characters eat it, and that is described. An author can never go on too long about eating, however, I don’t tend to remember that.

Usually it’s dispositions that last for me – the loneliness of this character, or the bitterness of another. I can forget a lot about a character, but I never forget how they feel. I loved the book “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” as a girl, and I remember only the vaguest factual details, but the complex mix of vulnerability and determination of that main character is burned into my mind!

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:35:37 +0000

The main things I remember about the Redwall series by Brian somethingorother was…THE FOOD. He literally wrote several pages in a row just describing their feasts. Plus they were all animals, all the rabbits had funny accents and were hilarious, and badgers had blood rages.

By: Carolyn Jewel

Carolyn Jewel — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:27:20 +0000

I had chocolate for dinner.

By: wedschilde

wedschilde — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:32 +0000

little house.

i remember mary having a bandage over her eye from an exploding potatoe and the girls sharing laura’s.

and how one preferred sage and the other liked onion in the stuffing.

By: Katy Cooper

Katy Cooper — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:51:33 +0000

There’s no consistency to what I remember about books. I remember “My landlady was a voluble man,” from Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, for the pure oddity of the phrase. I remember food from Mary Stewart’s books: the feast in Marseille in Madam, Will You Talk and the sausages in the kitchen in Brittany in The Crystal Cave.

In the Little House books, I remember Laura’s doll and Ma slapping the bear, thinking it was a cow (in Little House in the Big Woods); the leeches in On the Banks of Plum Creek); the crazy farm wife and the hat that brought out the blue of Laura’s eyes in These Happy Golden Years.

I think I’m having scrambled eggs for supper. Everything else takes too much work.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:34:54 +0000

Oddly enough, I do remember most of the food type stuff from the Little House books. Other books? Not food so much.

Characters. I remember the characters.

And I haven’t even had breakfast much less thought about lunch and dinner… :OP

By: KarinDav

KarinDav — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:01 +0000

i usually rememder something the character had said and cracked me up or an interesting word. i can usually locete the phrase/word, to show my friends that i am not compleatly psychotic, fairly easily.

By: Readsalot

Readsalot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:16:45 +0000

Oh boy, I remember Ramona. OMG. lol. Such a long time ago! I also read the babysitters club, sweet valley twins/high, the saddle club, silver blades.

*shakes head* Not very highbrow reading, but they made babysitting, horse back riding and figure skating sound very awesome to my young mind. And through reading those books, I had a yen to do those things or try it once so I could say I did it. That’s something that I notice even now, if the characters have a job or hobby that’s intriguing and so I do more in depth research or find out the requirements of said job/hobby.

Lunch comes before dinner. I have leftover birthday cake. And cookies. As for dinner, eh, dunno yet. Probably something that comes from a box or leftovers in the fridge. Yummy.