I love to read about food in any book. When I was a kid I thought British food must be soooo delicious because of Harry Potter ๐
I still get excited whenever a book mentions food, even if itโs just something ordinary like bacon and eggs or ice cream soda. Books can also affect my preferences for food during the time I read them, for example, when I was reading The Winds of War, a book about WWII, my diet consisted of food from the Axis Powers solely! I ate so much German sausage, Japanese potato salad, Japanese beef tongue, Japanese fried chicken, and pasta (my record is eating pasta and meatballs four nights in one week!). Apparently my appetite decided to be very different from my political views ๐
by Chocolate_PannaCotta
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I love this irrelevant excerpt from Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. No surprise someone put it on the web:
[https://akkartik.name/post/capn-crunch](https://akkartik.name/post/capn-crunch)
I generally enjoy the unnecessary slice of life bits or random passages that are just there for vibes. Modern writing conventions seem to be geared towards cutting everything that isn’t a plot beat. Maybe good advice for weaker writers, but I love when an adept author lets themselves wander a bit.
Picaresque is a genre of fiction in which the main character has a series of adventures and the plot isn’t very important. Plot driven fiction gets too formulaic for me, usually.