Spring Break
The Daily OrangeBOOKS ABOUT EATING
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Posted: 1/14/08, 11:01 PM EST Section: Feature
While checking out the new Library Cafe, chow down on our favorite stories featuring food.
"Like Water for Chocolate"
By Laura Esquivel
Esquivel combines food, romance and magical realism for the perfect recipe. In fact, every chapter even begins with a recipe as the story unfolds about Tita, a girl forced to cook and take care of her overbearing mother, while kept from her lover Pedro.
What it'll make you hungry for: A fancy Mexican dish. Or maybe just some chocolate.
"Who Moved My Cheese?"
By Dr. Spencer Johnson
Get motivated with this best-selling self-help book about two mice and two miniature humans traveling through a maze in search of their lost cheese.
What it'll make you hungry for: Success. And cheese.
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
By Jodi Barrett
Sorry "Green Eggs and Ham," but this is the essential book for young gourmands. In the town of Chewandswallow, juice rains from the sky (or mashed potatoes in the winter) along with many delicious cuisines. The tomato tornados, however, are not as appetizing.
What it'll make you hungry for: Grilled Cheese, PB&J sandwiches and Lunchables.
"Alive"
By Piers Paul Read
A Chilean soccer team's plane crashes in the Andes Mountains. And the survivors are left with a brutal choice: starve or eat the remains of those who died in the accident. The true story turns into one of the most harrowing, touching tales of survival ever written.
What it'll make you hungry for: Hopefully, nothing.
"Like Water for Chocolate"
By Laura Esquivel
Esquivel combines food, romance and magical realism for the perfect recipe. In fact, every chapter even begins with a recipe as the story unfolds about Tita, a girl forced to cook and take care of her overbearing mother, while kept from her lover Pedro.
What it'll make you hungry for: A fancy Mexican dish. Or maybe just some chocolate.
"Who Moved My Cheese?"
By Dr. Spencer Johnson
Get motivated with this best-selling self-help book about two mice and two miniature humans traveling through a maze in search of their lost cheese.
What it'll make you hungry for: Success. And cheese.
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
By Jodi Barrett
Sorry "Green Eggs and Ham," but this is the essential book for young gourmands. In the town of Chewandswallow, juice rains from the sky (or mashed potatoes in the winter) along with many delicious cuisines. The tomato tornados, however, are not as appetizing.
What it'll make you hungry for: Grilled Cheese, PB&J sandwiches and Lunchables.
"Alive"
By Piers Paul Read
A Chilean soccer team's plane crashes in the Andes Mountains. And the survivors are left with a brutal choice: starve or eat the remains of those who died in the accident. The true story turns into one of the most harrowing, touching tales of survival ever written.
What it'll make you hungry for: Hopefully, nothing.
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