# What books make you hungry when you read them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501 "2004-11-07T15:54:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/21 "2004-11-08T01:49:15Z")
When I read _Alive_ in high school, I was hungry all the time. Though not for a rugby player or a pilot… Seriously, I felt like I was the one starving! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/22 "2004-11-08T02:11:45Z")
There’s a crumpet-toasting scene in \O Jerusalem\ by Laurie R. King that I find particularly appetizing. I’ve never had a crumpet and am still not quite sure what they are, but that scene makes me hunger. The food scenes in the Narnia books make my mouth water too. Hey, **jsgoddess** , let’s put on our parkas and go hunt an aurochs! ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/23 "2004-11-08T03:21:04Z")
Lawrence Sanders’ _Deadly Sin_ books, the one featuring Edward X Delaney, always made me hungry. Delaney was a New York police lieutenant and made the most delicious-sounding sandwiches, learned from his many years on stakeout and such. And, of course, I can’t remember a single one. He ate many of them over the sink in the kitchen because they were messy, and I know one used pita bread. I have a plan to reread the books (which are quite good, btw) and copy all the recipes. Someday. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/24 "2004-11-08T13:33:09Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > The food scenes in the Narnia books make my mouth water too. Even the first course of the breakfast for the centaurs in **The Silver Chair**? 😛 (For those of you who don’t recall that scene, breakfast for a half horse/half man consisted of first feeding the horse stomach, then the human stomach. Mmmmm, fresh field greens…) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/25 "2004-11-08T13:46:40Z")
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s _Little House_ books. There’s even a _Little House Cookbook_. Lora Brody’s cookbooks are great reading. _Growing Up on The Chocolate Diet_ is highly recommended. Her books are really memoirs with damn good recipes. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/26 "2004-11-09T01:37:55Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Even the first course of the breakfast for the centaurs in **The Silver Chair**? 😛 > > (For those of you who don’t recall that scene, breakfast for a half horse/half man consisted of first feeding the horse stomach, then the human stomach. Mmmmm, fresh field greens…) Except for that part. I did have a wicked craving for Shredded Wheat then, if it counts. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501/27 "2004-11-09T01:57:15Z")
Bedtime story readings of Russell Hoban’s [Bread and Jam for Frances](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064430960/002-1760997-3641620?v=glance). Who’s up for a cream cheese-cucumber-and-tomato sandwich on rye bread? And a pickle to go with it? And a hard-boiled egg and a little cardboard shaker of salt to go with that? And a bunch of grapes and a tangerine and a cup custard and a spoon to eat it with? [sub]And remember to make the sandwich, the pickle, the egg and the milk COME OUT EVEN[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-make-you-hungry-when-you-read-them/273501.md?page=1)