Comments on: Through the Stomach and Into the Heart

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:11:28 +0000

Lemonade scones for Jean:)

4 cups self-raising flour
300 ml cream (1 small bottle of cream)
¼ cup Chelsea White Sugar
1 can (355 ml) Sprite or 7UP
½ teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 220ºC.

2. Cover an oven tray with a sheet of baking paper or spray well with non stick baking spray.

3. Mix all ingredients in a bowl to a smooth dough.

4. Tip out onto a well floured bench and cut into squares or press out with a round cookie cutter.

5. Place the scones, just touching each other, on the prepared baking tray.

6. Bake for about 15 – 20 minutes until starting to colour pale golden. Check they are cooked through and cool on a wire rack, covered with a clean tea towel (this keeps the scones lovely and soft).

7. Cut in half and spread with jam or honey when cool enough to eat.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:47:22 +0000

One of my favorite food scenes in a book is the first breakfast for Will and Ellie in Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer. She uses Will’s disbelief at the abundance after years of austerity combined with Ellie’s calm acceptance of that same abundance as such a counterpoint between them. When Ellie calmly chops an egg for the baby while telling Will to “Eat.”, I knew they were going to be fine.

By: Jeannette Perry

Jeannette Perry — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:43:40 +0000

…great topic!…it brings to mind the beloved Betty Neels who always included incredibly posh restaurant meals in her books… her naming of each course…even though I couldn’t always understand what the food was (usually in French) the idea behind it was always a delight and an expected part of her stories…..

By: mb

mb — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:04:31 +0000

What an interesting topic! Since so many of my favorite books have had wonderful food scenes, I tend to seek those out. And I’ll usually give ‘new to me’ authors a try if there is intriguing mentions of food included.

Yes! To those favorite already mentioned: Second Thyme Around, Sunshine, The Marriage Test, Sugar Daddy. I too have always wondered about Blair’s recipe for bread pudding but have always chickened out so far–it sounds SO overwhelmingly sweet.

Other books that include food that I’ve enjoyed over the years:
LaVyrle Spencer’s ‘Years’ comes to mind
Trisha Ashley has fun books with food. ‘Chocolate Dreams’ and ’12 Days of Christmas’ in particular
I really enjoy Sarah-Kate Lynch’s books, almost all are about food
Mary Kay Andrews has a couple foodie books, I think.

Hey, anyone else have suggestions? I’ll take them.

The only time when food mentions squick me out is when the chef/s have sex on top of food prep surfaces. Yuck! Disgusting. And restaurant kitchens? Double yuck!

By: Jean Wan

Jean Wan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:45:28 +0000

LibrarianLizy – There’s also a nice scene in “Angel Falls” where the chef heroine gets pissy about the second-rate ingredients she has to deal with at the middle-of-nowhere diner. Love that book.

Lada – Now that you mention it, I remember that story, and the hero’s touching concern for the heroine. It was a nice role reversal – there are lots of scenes with heroines constantly feeding heroes and being on hand, so to speak, but the reverse? Not so common.

I just accepted the chicken marsala as a vehicle for Min’s acceptance of her body – it could as easily have been chicken parmesan, or beef wellington, or whatever, as long as it was a meal that requires all sorts of “unhealthy” ingredients.

I don’t know about Krispy Kreme bread pudding, but there’s a recipe for scones in New Zealand that’s almost like an urban legend, involving flour, cream, 1 egg, and a can of Sprite (what the down unders call lemonade). Everyone’s heard that it works, and no one I’ve talked to has tried it. Huh.

Susan/DC – Thanks for the pointer – now I have another movie on my To Watch list, along with Fish Called Wanda, James and the Giant Peach, Prime Suspect, and another thirty.

By: Susan/DC

Susan/DC — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:39:38 +0000

@Jean Wan — I saw the movie of “Like Water for Chocolate” before I read the book. Even though books are usually better than the movies made from them, this one worked because so much of the descriptions were so visually arresting. Not to mention I liked Marco Leonardi, who also played the young man in the middle section of “Cinema Paradiso”.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103994/