Did you all see the Johnny Depp movie...
a few years back "Chocolat"? The author of that book is Joanne Harris and she also wrote "Five Quarters of the Orange" which is a tale of the unique saga of a European mother w/ any number of angry & bitter dysfunctions, many of which stem from her WW2 childhood. The tale is busting apart w/ cooking & food- also mystery, intrigue, murder, betryal, lost love, long-unanswered questions, etc. I highly recommend it for folks who enjoy stories that include kitchen happenings very much in the style of Laura Esquivel's "Like Water For Chocolat".
Another fantastic food read that links cuisine & eros is Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite".
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