132,566
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchHelen Moss on Lashings of Ginger Ale (view source)
Revision as of 13:34, 21 September 2011
, 13:34, 21 September 2011no edit summary
And anyway, I'm not meant to be talking about food writing, but the venerable tradition of food and feasts in books for children.
First, there's the fantasy sweetshop (or even factory), which features so joyfully in the works of [[:Category:Roald Dahl|Roald Dahl]], from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, to The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, with all those wondrous Nishnobbblers and Gumglotters and Blue Bubblers and Sherbert Slurpers, a tradition carried on in magical style by [[:Category:J.K. Rowling|J K Rowling]] with Honeydukes and its chocolate frogs and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour beans. (1)
Then, of course, there's the picnic. In Kenneth Graeme's The Wind in The Willows, Ratty famously describes the contents of his wicker picnic basket as containing
