FOOD short stories/poems

[Madelaine Hron]

Thanks! but I am specifically looking for SHORT STORIES or POEMS...
Would you by chance know any? I am quite aware I could use a number of
excerpts in longer novels (eg Tolstoy's Anna Karenina banquet scene or
the dinner scene in Chekhov's A Women's Kingdom, as you mention the To the
Lighthouse or of course Proust's madeleine scene...;-) but I was hoping
for something more self-contained... MH

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Halimur Khan wrote:

>
> Virginia Woolf's lunch description comes to mind right away. Take
> Gogol's (19th century Russian playwright)description of dinners from
> "the inspector general;" tolstoy has has several marvellous dinner
> descriptions in anna karenina. All of these descriptions are there to
> make some point or other/you can fit them where you find them more
> appropriate.
>
> --halimur khan
>
>
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> Dear friends --
>
> I am looking for short stories/poems could be used to teach a food,
> literature and culture course. Specifically, I am searching for examples
> that do not merely describe food or a food scene but that somehow
> feature food in a novel way -- for example employing food to comment on
> ethnicity, gender, class, psychology,or genres such magic realism,
> concrete poetry etc.
>
> Thank you muchly for any leads!
> Madelaine
>
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