11 Recipes For Bookworms Who Love To Eat (2024)

What to read while eating it: Mockingjay (from The Hunger Games series) by Suzanne Collins

"I’m starving and the stew is so delicious—beef, potatoes, turnips, and onions in a thick gravy—that I have to force myself to slow down. All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it’s not a mistake to go on living. It’s better than any medicine."

What to read while eating it: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

"The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture."

What to read while eating it: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?"
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund.
The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the very centre and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious.

What to read while eating it: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

"The Tatar, recollecting that it was Stepan Arkadyevich’s way not to call the dishes by the names in the French bill of fare, did not repeat them after him, but could not resist rehearsing the whole menu to himself according to the bill: “Soupe printaniere, turbot sauce Beaumarchais, poulard a l’estragon, Macedoine de fruits . . .” and then instantly, as though worked by springs, laying down one bound bill of fare, he took up another, the list of wines, and submitted it to Stepan Arkadyevich."

What to read while eating it: A Feast for Crows (from the A Song of Ice and Fire series) by George R. R. Martin

"Lemony lemony lemon cakes…and you can have as many as you like."

What to read while eating it: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

"We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other."

What to read while eating it: On The Road by Jack Kerouac

" I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.”

What to read while eating it: The Goldfinch by Donna Tart

"In my mind I went over all the meals we’d eaten in the days leading up to her death: our last visit to the Greek diner, our last visit to Shun Lee Palace, the last dinner she’d cooked for me (spaghetti carbonara) and the last dinner before that (a dish called chicken Indienne, which she'd learned to make from her mother back in Kansas)."

What to read while eating it: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"It was the pleasantest tea-table in the world. Miss Clarissa presided. I cut and handed the sweet seed-cake - the little sisters had a bird-like fondness for picking up seeds and pecking at sugar; Miss Lavinia looked on with benignant patronage, as if our happy love were all her work; and we were perfectly contented with ourselves and one another."

What to read while eating it: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

"Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits, and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt."

What to read while eating it: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayby Michael Chabon

"Did you save room for my babka?” Bubbie said. “I always save room for dessert, Mrs. Kavalier,” Bacon said.