Recipes within Stories

[DATo]

In the movie The Godfather the character Clemenza teaches Michael how to make Italian spaghetti sauce detailing all of the ingredients and how it is cooked.

[EMoffat]

In the Terry Pratchett books Nanny Ogg makes some bizarre dishes. You can actually buy the discworld recipie book (which I did), and try and recreate some of the odd cusinie. It is pretty good fun!

[stoppoppingtheP]

I love when food is mentioned in detail in books. It makes it seem like you can almost taste the dish.

[Insightsintobooks729]

I like books with recipes. The Recipie Box is good, the recipes aren't in the middle of the story though, they are at tbe end of each chapter.

[CaitlinGonya]

I generally like recipes in books. My current favorite is Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie. It has Chicken Marsala in it, and I love how the character tries to make it over and over again.

[DeanBeccy]

I've read two books with recipes in, Like Water For Chocolate which had recipes relevant to what was happening in the story, e.g. Christmas cake at Christmas. It was originally released as a serial in monthly magazines so already had a natural break in the story for the recipes. It's set in Southern America so it was really interesting to read the recipes and see how they are different to the British and American cooking I've grown up with. The other was Cooking Up Murder, in which the two main characters attended a cookery class, and the recipes mentioned throughout were all in the very back of the book, which was nice because it meant you could continue the experience of the book, once you'd finished and felt natural to have them in. As someone who loves cooking and reading I'm always for a novel with recipes in, but I can see how it could be jarring for some people. Well, that's my two cents.

[HeatherEi]

In first grade we read Stone Soup. We took a field trip to the local farmer's market and bought all of the ingredients and made the soup as a class. It is such a great memory for me!

[Urbashi Basu]

I loved 'Like water for chocolate' both for the recipes and the story.

[kathey]

I love recipes within stories I find them a double treat.

[Netvigator72]

To be completely honest, I have never seen a cookbook that included stories with the recipes. I read a lot of Wanda Brunstetter's amish novels and she almost always adds a recipe from their culture at the end of the book.

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