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Imajući na umu da nam dolazi doba godine kad već po navici zaboravljamo na tričarije kao što su: koliko kaznenih kalorija nosi koja namirnica, pa krkamo, tamanimo bakalar, pečenje, francusku salatu, sarmu i sve ostalo što nam se nađe na tanjuru, a uz to smo još i gladuši kad je riječ o vrhunskom štivu, donosimo popis 50 romana koji, svaki ponaosob i svi zajedno, objedinjuju oba poroka:
The Epicure’s Lament, Kate Christensen
The Dinner, Herman Koch
Pow!, Mo Yan
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong
The Debt to Pleasure, John Lanchester
Ulysses, James Joyce
Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Eli Brown
John Saturnall’s Feast, Lawrence Norfolk
Redwall, Brian Jacques
The Belly of Paris, Emile Zola
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
The Flounder, Günter Grass
Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
The Devil’s Larder, Jim Crace
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Fannie Flagg
Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
Cooking With Fernet Branca, James Hamilton-Paterson
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
Edible Stories, Mark Kurlansky
The Hundred-Foot Journey, Richard C. Morais
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Food of Love, Anthony Capella
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
White Truffles in Winter, N.M. Kelby
Babette’s Feast, Karen Blixen
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Gourmet Rhapsody, Muriel Barbery
The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones
La Cucina, Lily Prior
The Food Chain, Geoff Nicholson
Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain
The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman
The Lives of Notorious Cooks, Brendan Connell
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran
Appetite, Philip Kazan
The Chef’s Apprentice, Elle Newmark
Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Hunger, Jane Ward
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