Play the "book titles containing food words" game?
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January 13th, 2016
This is a game to suggest an existing book title which has a reference to food. We played this with songs and alcohol fairly recently but you know me and my love for books…
So Chocolat by Joanne Harris would count
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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Something like that?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Green Eggs and Ham
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
A Raisin in the Sun
Blueberries for Sal
Cider House Rules
Like Water for Chocolate
Laughing Whitefish (Traver) (old book, but a great legal thriller) link
A Brief History of Thyme.
James and the Giant Peach
An author named Diane Mott Davidson has a series of mystery novels with food-based names. She puts some recipes here-and-there throughout the pages, which is fun. I’ve tried some of the recipes; they’ve all been excellent, and I added them to my personal, go-to collection.
Lord of the Fries
Captain Corelli’s Mandarin
Catcher in the Rice
War & Peas
Serious answer: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Days of Wine and Roses
La Dolce Vida (“Sweet Life” was a common store brand of packaged and canned foods in New England back in the day, so I’m claiming this one.)
@CWOTUS Hmm…I remember S.S. Pierce very fondly, but I can’t recall Sweet Life.
The French edition of Misty of Chincoteague
Fifty Shades of Brie
Live & Let Pie
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stove
Like Water for Chocolate
a lovely book that includes recipes
Steakout (Richard Dreyfus movie)
Tamale Never Dies – James Bond movie about a mexican restaurant
For Whom The Bell Toll House Cookies (Hemingway)
The Count of Monte Crisco (about the heir to the cooking oil empire)
The Blizzard of Oz (about ice cream concoctions)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
The Wackiest Chip in the Army
Not many on my shelf (without resorting to jokes about what counts as food), but:
The Annotated Mother Goose
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Catcher in the Rye
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? Erma Bombeck
To Whom the Dinner Bell Tolls.
The Grilled Bird.
Cherries on a Plate (NZ)
~ edited by Marilyn Duckworth
Pears On a Willow Tree
~ Leslie Pietrzyk
A History of Insects (depends on one’s food choices)
~ Yvonne Roberts
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Chicken Soup For The Soul.
Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks by Edward Hannibal
Paris Trout by Peter Dexter
@Stinley Shouldn’t that be Of Rice and Men ?
I’m confused if this is supposed to be an actual book title or the take on one. The OP assumes we knew a previous game?
@ibstubro it was meant to be actual book titles but some people got carried away making puns out of book titles. I have played that game before. It’s all good but your answer is perfect!
@janbb are you saying you don’t eat mice? And men?
Mine are all actual.
The Gravy Starr
Blackberry Days Of Summer
Elderberry Fall
Cranberry Winter
All by Ruth P. Watson
@Stinley So you’re saying you eat either mice or men.
@dxs Or maybe she serves one on top of the other as a sauce?
The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
nom nom, just finishing up my manballs and spaghetti made with mice tails
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John MacDonald.
@Stinley Now I’m confused by what Black Swan Green has to do with food – and I read the book.
@janbb Swans. We all eat swans, don’t we?
You Froggy Brits are weird!
@janbb it is actually against the law to eat swan in britain, except if you are the Queen. Apparently she owns the whole species. I just don’t know what I was thinking putting that book title in.
Teeth-achingly cute story – my daughter when she was five came home from school and said they’d had their Christmas dinner that day. My husband asked her what she’d had (she’s a fussy eater so it’s a valid question). ‘Swan, I think.’ she said airily.
The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
@Stinley is off her mark lately!!
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
@CWOTUS But if they don’t die, you can’t eat them! (Good book though.)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Friend by Christopher Moore (a great read, for those inclined)
The Golden Apples – Eudora Welty
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I have eaten fried dandelions and I do not recommend them.
The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Akhmed And The Atomic Matzo Balls
The Last Chicken in America
Milk and Honey by Faye Kellerman
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles Schulz
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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