I had to try toast with marmalade and cheddar after reading about it so much in the Larsson books. :) Not half bad, but not something I'd have daily.

The food descriptions in The Hunger Games trilogy were great. It made me what to have the lamb stew with dried plumbs which was Katniss' favorite meal.

@Kristiannah, I also had a few marmalade and cheddar sandwiches after reading The Girl with the dragon tattoo. I used chutney instead of the marmalade. This is a very common meal in Europe- whenever I travel there I love to have their cheese sandwiches. :)

Wow, not only are they creative, these photos are beautifully shot.

@Klee02, love the Hunger Games idea! I'm not so sure if I would actually love lamb + plums as much as Katniss did, though.

I've never read the Hunger Games, not my kinda genre, but the food imagery did pick my interest enough to read blogs about the food. I love how most of the food is real too. I love lamb and prune tagine.

I did not care for the Hunger Games, but I did really enjoy the food descriptions. Coolest part of the books, by far.

The lamb stew with plums sounded heavenly and really reminded me of the lamb shank with prunes recipe from Serious Eats.

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/12/fall-apart-lamb-with-prunes-recipe.html?ref=search

I'm a big George RR Martin fan, and this blog recreates a lot of the scrumptious-sounding meals in the books: http://innatthecrossroads.com/

Two that I have not forgotten since childhood: the potatoes at Beanbender's Beer Garden and the way the dad eats avocadoes in "The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death."

Bloom's breakfast of fried sheep's kidneys in Ulysses deserves mention before some hungergames bullshit, people.

Did anybody eat anything in 50 shades of gray? Let say that.

The meal prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Beaver in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe would be my choice! It's one of my favorite parts from the book.

I had to google treacle tart while reading Harry Potter as I did not know what it was. And though I do not think pumpkin juice would be very appetizing, you can mix orange and carrot juice and tell your kids it is pumpkin juice. Also quite tasty.

I like trying to make things I read about in books or see in movies!! I've made a vegetarian version of Jane Austen's white soup, from Pride and Prejudice!

As someone who only read Moby Dick 20 years ago, I have no idea what I'm looking at other than hard boiled eggs, grilled cheese, gruel, tea, and chowder.

Descriptions/names/blurbs of a scene might have been nice. Without context, they're just food pictures... :/

I love this, really well done and on spot!

Kerry Greenwood, an Australian author, peppers her books with amazing descriptions of food and meals. One day my sister and I created a meal based on one of hers. It went really well.

As for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - I though the sandwich was jam with cheese, which I've tried and like. I'm not sure if it was that book or another from that geographic area but there was a description of putting cheese on fruit toast which I've found to be delcious.

That is a very tasty looking grilled cheese sandwich.

These pictures are great, I really enjoyed this article. If I were to add any food moments from my favourite books it might be the hot chocolate and chicken sandwiches from Ray Bradbury's "The Long Rain"
My favourite food related passage, which would be impossible to photograph most likely, is the description of the different candies Willy Wonka is capable of making in "Charlie and Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl.

Great idea! "Banana breakfast" from Gravity's Rainbow; Chinese meal from The Cricket in Times Square (now shifting to children's lit!); anything at all from the Little House series, from decadent novelty (cakes made with white sugar) to sustaining (endless bowls of cornmeal mush the characters always seemed to be eating).

Gloucesterina, I've always wanted to recreate Banana Breakfast. I love that scene (and that book) so much.

For Roald Dahl fans who want to re-create the dishes in his books:
http://www.amazon.com/Roald-Dahls-Revolting-Recipes-Dahl/dp/0140378200/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342480792&sr=8-1&keywords=roald+dahl+revolting+recipes

I happen to like Bruce Bogtrotter's cake and the BFG soda that produces "whiz-poppin'" (essentially a kiwi cream soda.)

I went to make Gjetost sandwiches after reading Roald Dahl's biography.
The cheese was better what I read from the books!

You were silly not to mention yummy-books.com she's been around far longer and won the first round of your best recipe blog contest this year... That's an oversight

As a kid reading Pippi Longstocking stories, the mention of fruit soup always intrigued me.

The descriptions of meals in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder always made my mouth water when I was a kid, especially the feasts in Farmer Boy... Evidentally I wasn't the only one, as there is a Little House Cookbook, which is part of my library, although I haven't looked at it in years... I am now inspired to do so! Here's a link:
http://www.littlehousebooks.com/books/bookdetail.cfm?ISBN13=9780060264185

The descriptions of the Indian food in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Namesake" are the best and worth recreating.

I agree!
Reading the description of "chat" in the first chapter of the Namesake was one of my many inspirations to book a ticket to India. Crunchy, spicy, limey and toasty....

Although it's an obvious choice, I would like to see something from Marcel Proust... the strawberries and the madeleines.

When I was a teenager, I read Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and loved the description of Rex Mottram and Charles Ryder sharing a meal in Paris. Although Mottram is wealthy, his palate is unrefined. I want to see the duck, the sole, and the caviar blinis.

id love to see ms. havisham's rotting wedding cake from great expectations and albert's lunch from bread and jam for frances.

I second all descriptions of food in all Jhumpa Lahiri's writing - the Namesake, but also the Unaccustomed Earth and The Interpreter of Maladies. They are all excellent books with excellent food descriptions.

After reading Little House on the Prairie as children, my mom had the brilliant idea for us to make our own butter and bread "the pioneer way." We didn't have a churn, so she had us shake the butter in jars until our arms almost fell off. It was delicious though!

I ate so many tomato sandwiches growing up thanks to Harriet the Spy, I never got around to trying an egg cream, though.