Wow! Well done everyone, that was a truly impressive list of food-related book titles.
Some of my particular favourites, from your suggestions:
The Best Thing That Can Happen To A Croissant – Pablo Tusset
Everything on a Waffle – Polly Horvarth
Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche – Bruce Feirstein
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg – Giles Milton
Fax Me A Bagel – Sharon Kahn
Crooked Cucumber – David Chadwick
An Embarrassment of Mangoes – Ann Vanderhoof
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons – Lorna Landvik
but my favourite has to be I Have A Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty, so thank you Evie!
Looking through the books I have in Oxford (about a tenth of the ones I have in total) I could only muster four foody titles, some of which have been mentioned already:
Jam and Genius – Angela Milne (niece of AA, articles from Punch)
Tea Is So Intoxicating – Mary Essex (bought because of the title, and good fun – each chapter is prefixed by a tea-related saying, such as ‘cold tea may be endured, but not cold looks’)
Tea With Mr. Rochester – Frances Towers (yes, that is Mr. Jane Eyre)
Few Eggs and No Oranges – Vere Hodgson
I’m a bit late for this
A Greengage Summer by Doris Lessing (I think)
Drinking Cocoa With Kingley Amies by Wendy Cope (poetry)
Ah, Mary, you’ve reminded me of A Greengage Summer – but I think it’s by Rumer Godden.
We’re at camp in Maine for the weekend and I have a small bookcase. The only one I could find was Fisherman’s Outfitters and that’s a catalogue. Once we are here for the summer, I’ll have many more books but am feeling pretty poor right now!
This was a very cool idea!
You missed out ‘Tequila Mockingbird’.
That never stops being funny.
I suspect you’ll already have seen this, but if not, you might like to pay a visit to Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down. Truly, a site after my own heart.
So what is he best thing that can happen to a croissant? Does it pine to be eaten or to be saved?
From the first line of the book:
“The best thing that can happen to a croissant is to get spread with butter: this is what I remember thinking as I split one down the middle and smeared it with discount margarine spread.”