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Fictional foods‎
Fictional food characters‎
Food-related literary genres‏‎
Books about food and drink

• Adolph, Andrea. Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction. Ashgate, 2009.
  
  
• Aoyama, Tomoko. Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature. University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
  
  
• Gigante, Denise. Taste, a Literary History. Yale University Press, 2010.
  
  
• Walker, Harlan. Food in the Arts: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 1998. Prospect, 1999.
  
  
• Heller, Tamar, and Patricia Moran (Eds.). Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth-And-Twentieth-Century Women's Writing. State University of New York Press, 2003.
  
  
• Inness, Sherrie A. Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. [Focuses on cookbook authors as agents of social change]
  
  
• Keeling, Kara K., and Scott T. Pollard. Food in Children's Literature: Critical Approaches. Routledge, 2009.
  
  
• Kiell, Norman. Food and Drink in Literature: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow, 1995.
  
  
• Lebesco, Kathleen, and Peter Naccarato (Eds.). Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. State University of New York Press, 2008.
  
  
• Magennis, Hugh. Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature. Four Courts, 1999.
  
  
• McWilliams, Mark. Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America. AltaMira, 2012.
  
  
• Moss, Sarah. Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction. Manchester University Press, 2011.
  
  
• Muhlstein, Anka. Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac. Other Press, 2011.
  
  
• Schofield, Mary Anne. Cooking by the Book: Food in Literature and Culture. Popular Press, 1989.
  
  
• Scrafford, Barbara. Literary Feasts: Recipes from the Classics of Literature. iUniverse, 2004.
  
  
• Shapiro, Anna. W.W. Norton, 1996. A Feast of Words: For Lovers of Food and Fiction. W.W. Norton, 1996.
  
  
• Theophano, Janet. Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  
  
• van Gelder, Geert J. H. God's Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature. Columbia University Press, 2000.
  
  
• Wilkins, John. Food in European Literature. Intellect, 1996.