Pretty self-explainitory thread.
I was reading Fellowship of the Ring and so, this morning, I just had to have sauteed mushrooms for breakfast, since I can never read past that one scene in Fellowship without getting a monster craving for shrooms…
What books and scenes make your mouth water?
(And, yes, if it’s for some other appetite, that counts, too!)
Any time Captain Kirk has coffee, I have to have coffee too. Playing the Sims 2 I get hungry for the food you can cook there, like omlets, Turkey, or mac and cheese.
I don’t even like candy, but I still want some anytime the Hogwarts children are eating candy from Hogsmede in the “Harry Potter” books. And I’ve always wanted to know what butterbeer tasted like.
Moby Dick = Chowder!
The Sten books by Chris Bunch and Alan Cole are filled with characters fixing and eating some amazing dishes. The preparations are described clearly enough that I have transcribed recipes for some of the more yummy items, like Angelo Stew and The Eternal Emperor’s Own BBQ Sauce. 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory does it for me. I start jonesing for chocolate. That is not a good thing.
Robin
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe had me hankerin’ to try the fried green tomato recipe. I hate tomatoes, but dang, it just sounded so yummy. Same with all of Ninnie’s talk about barbecue.
Ended up making a BBQ veggie thing.
Funny, Fried Green Tomatoes made me not hungry for barbeque for a long time.
The scene in Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves, where Tuppy Glossop makes a midnight raid on the larder (after refusing his dinner to demonstrate his love for Bertie’s cousin Angela) always makes me want to go downstairs to get something to eat, no matter how late at night.
Oddly enough, while what Tuppy goes after is a steak-and-kidney pie, what I always crave in these circumstances is game pie. Either way, however, there is no such thing in the house (at best, there might be a chicken or beef pot pie in the freezer, but that’s really not the same thing).
I remember in grade school we read a series of stories called The Boxcar Children .
As I remember I always liked the descriptions of the meal preparations, as those made me a bit hungry, especially before lunch.
Like Water for Chocolate. Of course, it’s got recipes incorporated into the fictional story, so I think it’s designed to make people hungry!
The book goes into much greater detail aboout food in general and the “bad BBQ” stuff doesn’t show up until much later, after Ninnie has gone on and on in earlier chapters to make you hungry.
Harry Potter does it for me too.
Ardred was reading the HP books when he was on a $3 a week food budget. That’s just plain torture.
Anything by Brian Jacques relating to Redwall.
I’ve mentioned it before, but Jean Auel’s Ayla books make me feel very carnivorous.
Whenever I read A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle, I crave ripened goat cheese, a baguette and a glass of Cotes du Rhone like you wouldn’t believe.
I didn’t have to read the book, just your post! drool
Well, every now and then, the Nero Wolfe mysteries featured some dishes by chef Fritz Brenner that sounded mighty good!
That said, when Rex Stout finally did publish a Nero Wolfe cookbook, I was underwhelmed. Almost none of the recipes were inspired or even good.
Definitely. I always want some sort of bread with nuts in it or rhubarb crisp.
I’ve seen the cookbook and it didn’t excite me either. but Too Many Cooks had me feeling faint with hunger a few times. There are a few other mysteries featuring food, one series at least including the recipes, but I don’t have the reference at hand.
The Aubrey and Maturin books (Master and Commander to start) also have their moments, and I have the cookbook. That has some stuff that looks really good, but not for your arteries!