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!
There’s a crumpet-toasting scene in <i>O Jerusalem</i> 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!
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.
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…)
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.
Except for that part. I did have a wicked craving for Shredded Wheat then, if it counts.
Bedtime story readings of Russell Hoban’s Bread and Jam for Frances.
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]