Thursday, March 30, 2006

Books we would have if famous authors wrote restaurant reviews, cookbooks and dinner guides instead of fiction

(I haven't seen a list post in a while, so here's one.)

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Chicken / The Great Gatsby’s Guide to Dinner Parties for the Aloof / This Side of Potatoes

John Steinbeck: The Wine of Wrath / Of Mice and Men - Cheese for all occasions

Stephen King: Currie / The Bread Zone

Harper Lee: To Eat a Mockingbird

Thomas Keneally: Schindler’s Wine List

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange Sauce to Die For

Hemingway: The Cake Also Rises

George Orwell: 19.84: Dinner for under $20

Ayn Rand: Atlas Sautéed

Truman Capote: Marinated in Cold Blood

Sue Grafton: A is for Apple Pie / B is for Baking / C is for Cookies (that’s good enough for me)

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes are Watching the Pot – And it’ll never boil

Flannery O’Conner: A Good Cheesecake is Hard to Find

William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch

Happy Reading
Larry

12 Comments:

At 12:49 PM, Blogger James said...

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Sandwich Rings

Robert Graves: Goodbye to All Fat - a diet cook book

Fyodor Doestoyvsky (sp?) - The Brothers Caramalized

 
At 4:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You should read the names of the Good Eats eps for a lot of these. They used "The Dough Also Rises" instead of bread

 
At 9:33 AM, Blogger Mike said...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Servitude- A waiter's guide to etiquette

William Shakespeare: "Titus Andronicus"

 
At 12:04 PM, Blogger Ben said...

Truman Capote: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at Tiffany's

Mitch Albom: The Five Chefs you Meet in Heaven

Michael Crichton: Congo: A Guide to Dining in the African Jungle.

 
At 10:40 AM, Blogger Joe eoJ said...

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Pie.

J.D Salenger: The Ketchup on The Rye.

Harper Lee: To Cook a Mockingbird

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, a guide to wines.

William Faulkner: As I Lay Frying

 
At 4:01 PM, Blogger Joe eoJ said...

samual beckette: Waiting for Good dough

 
At 4:03 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, the joy of sex is an allusion to the joy of cooking, which predates the joy of sex by about 40 years. The joy of sex uses the same cooking setup "main course" etc.

 
At 6:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dr. Obvious is not a real doctor.

 
At 12:56 AM, Blogger Joe eoJ said...

where did the obvious thing come into play, either someone spells like i do or thats not what that says.

 
At 1:08 PM, Blogger Larry ... said...

I forgot Dr. Suess: The Cat on the Stick: Chinese cuisine / Green Eggs and Ham / There's a Wocket in my Hot Pocket

 
At 3:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

John Irving - The World According to Carp

Dr. Seuss - Restaurant Review: Tavern on the Green Eggs and Ham

Machiavelli - The Mince

Cervantes - Don Chipotle

Coleridge - The Lime in the Ancient Marinade

Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse, party of Five

 
At 1:24 AM, Blogger Joe eoJ said...

The Diary of Anne Frankfurter

George Orwell: Pepperidge animal Farm

charles dickens: oliver with a twist.

stephen crane:The Red Sauce of Courage

P.D. Eastman: Go Dog Go and other korean delicasies

charles dickens: a tale of two city dinners.

 

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