[ SECRET POST #4352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4352 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

12. https://i.imgur.com/8Z8Il4Y.png

[(Anonymous)]

I love the descriptions of food in post-war British children's books, like Narnia. A decade of rationing certainly fired the authors' imaginations when it came to description of even quite ordinary food.

[greghousesgf]

this!

[shortcrust]

The descriptions of soft, hearty village food in Goodnight Mister Tom, how Willie finds such comfort in the task of making things with his hands to eat, the washing and bottling of blackberries for jam; the WWII and WWII-adjacent setting has a lot of room for using food to represent welcoming, comforting innocence.

[(Anonymous)]

Same but Brideshead Revisited

[tabaqui]

OOoh, yes.

[tree_and_leaf]

I am always amused by the author's note to later editions where Waugh apologies for how food obsessed he was during the time of writing...

[tabaqui]

Hee! I think it added a delightful layer to the story; you got the impression Charles had had a very boring palate before he met Sebastian. In *all* senses of the word....

:D

[tree_and_leaf]

Agreed!

[(Anonymous)]

Right? You could just tell how much food meant to the author and the audience. Even simple things sounded good.

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, yes. As a kid, I didn't really understand peoples' obsession with bread but they made it sound tantalizing. It wasn't until much later that I learned about rationing and national loaf and all that. No wonder people fantasized about really good bread.

[(Anonymous)]

My grandparents moved from Scotland to South Africa in 1948 and when they arrived the welcoming committee gave them food to help set up their temporary rental home. They thought it was food for the month, it was meant to last a week!

[tree_and_leaf]

I've just started making my own bread - nothing fancy, a basic white loaf, and it's so damn good. It's been a revelation.

[soldatsasha]

Me too. To me it really helps make the scene and world feel more real. I love detailed descriptions of just about everything, though. I want to hear the nitty gritty of wear so-and-so got their cloak and how much apples cost in the market thanks to the latest tariffs.

[shortcrust]

Not to the exclusion of other descriptors, but as a way of dialing into the sensory aspects of a situation, particuarly when the meal is the emotion centre of a scene, yeah!!!

Also, I get you on the meat thing. I only ever eat meat during holiday cooking but there is something deeply, satisfying visceral about it that carries over to fiction.

[kaijinscendre]

I always loved the description of books in the Little House on the Prairie books.

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto. Farmer Boy has the most food description but even Laura's more simple childhood foods sound delicious. The books really had a way of making you see things from their perspective, including food we take for granted like popcorn and canned peaches.