Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

a-aspic (Parade's End)
b- berries (Broad and Alien is the World)
c- cake (Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta)
d-duck (The Cathedral)
e-eggs (Threepenny Novel)
f-fish fingers (Great Apes)
g-gumbo (Against the Day)
h-hamburger (The Long Goodbye)
i- Indian Pudding (Herzog)
j-jujube (Family Matters)
k-kebab (Dead Air)
l- loganberry (All About H. Hatterr)
m- mashed potatoes (The Book of Daniel)
n-nuts (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands)
o-oatcakes (Legend)
p- pear (H(A)PPY)
q- quail (Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady)
r- rice (Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company)
s-skillogalee (Voss)
t-tapas (The Circle)
u- udon (Kitchen)
v- venison (Queen Margot)
w- wine cakes (A Confederacy of Dunces)
x- Xochitl (many are edible and X will be tough esp. without re-reads) (Here's to You, Jesusa!)
y-yogurt (An Obedient Father)
z- ziti (American Pastoral)

This one might be harder than the previous ones, so I'm going to make lists of book foods as I go to help myself and others hopefully.

So far:

read:
-H(A)PPY: pear, seeds

-All About H. Hatterr: vegetables, fried cakes, steak, potatoes, grain, peaches, spiced rice, lean meat, butter, tea, toast, egg, loganberry , (xavier? name mentioned, but not as soup or steak)

-Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company: rice, java coffee, vegetables, fowl, sugar, biscuits

-A Confederacy of Dunces: potato chips, wine cakes, cashews, spanish rice, spaghetti, beans, jelly

-Queen Margotbread, egg, sweet cakes, fruit, venison, pheasant, omelet, partridge, bacon, wild boar, lamb, orange jam, corned beef

-Herzog: silvercup bread, beans, american cheese, raspnerries, eggs, soy sauce, proscuitto, water-cress salad, persian melon, plums, grapes, shrimp, cold water biscuits, terrapin soup, indian pudding, truffles, olives, rabbit, hen, yogurt, fish, seaweed vermicelli, chocolate, cherry, sandwich, dough, tomato, wild onion, herbs, deer, berries, canned bread, tuna, oranges,

--The Circle: roasted pigface, bacon, burrito, curry, tapas, sausage, lemon, lobster, tuna, vegetables

-Parade's End: vegetables, rabbit, goose, aspic, bread, butter, dijon, pepper, mutton, fish, leek, plum, apple, herring, salad, brownie, wensleydale cheese, wheat, ox hoof, ham, strawberry jam, sausage, potatoes, cheese, curry, beef, peas, quince

-Legend: seeds, chicken, rabbit, oatcakes

-The Cathedral: goat, peal-meal pancakes, pea-cakes, white bread, wheat, meat, onion, potato, millet, herring, borsch, duck,broth, rye, fish, corn flakes, bananas, peas, bran, apricot, apple, strawberry, pear, cherry, honeycomb, olive, pretzel, rice

-Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta:shikasta: cake, rice, cream, potatoes

-The Book of Daniel: bananas, biscuit, cookies, bread, spaghetti, candy bars, meat, sugar cookies, creamed corn, mashed potatoes

-Here's to You, Jesusa!: chicken, tacos, rabbit, rolls, eggs, orange, casserole, tortillas, mint, lemon, chives, chamomile?, liver, fish, mushrooms, tomatoes, goose, pepper, garlic, lime, iguana (explicity as a food), oysters, onion, sea bass, coconut, mango, sapodilla, pineapple, chiles, soup, rice, beans, beef, stew, pumpkin, chocolate, banana, guava, plums, watermelon, tamarind, garbanzo beans, apple, xochitl (many are edible), bread, chestnut, cheese, squash, butter, Pork rind, avocado, yolk, paella, tamale, sandwiches, jello, nuts

-Family Matters: french beans, sweet potatoes, coriander, green chillies, cabbage, cauliflower, onion, tomato, eggplant, carrot, bhel puri, green brown and red chutney, sev puri, mumra, puri,banana, jujube, lemon

-Voss: bread, meat, honey, herbs, potato, soup, mutton, skillogalee, bunya, bunya, ribs, cabbage, biscuit, beef, eggs, cream, ham, pickles, white bread, mussels, pumpkin, cumquats, goat, lamb, liver, goose, carp, apple, chestnut, cress, mustard, spinach, turnip, Mignonette sauce, trifle, jelly, aspic, lettuce, mayo, pear

--Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady: Quail, Venison, pea, egg, pheasant, partridge, chocolate, fowl, fish chicken

-- Kitchen: Udon, katsudon, cucumber, rice, eggs, cake, banana, ramen noodles, fish balls, broth, chicken, Chinese noodles, cucumber salad, boiled pork, tempura, tomato, instant dinner, potatoes, salad, pie, stew, croquettes, deep fried tofu, steamed greens, bean thread, chicken kiev, sweet and sour pork, Chinese dumplings, celery, curry, pastries, pickled wasabi root, roe, pineapple, custard, miso, egg and vegetable pancakes.

--Against the Day: herbs, berries, chicken, asparagus mousse, asparagus hollandaise, gumbo, mashed turnip, soup, meat loaf, turkey, terrapin stew, hot dogs, steaks, venison chili, chocolate, biscuit, duck, chop-suey, goat, donkey salami, hikuli, raspberry, bouillabaisse , wildflowers (edible and eaten in the book)

-Broad and Alien is the World: berries, wheat, lima beans, string beans, cowpeas, prickly pears, maguey (agave), corn, lemon, sorrel, squash, gourds, chestnut, alfalfa, dried beef, lamb, ox, duck, potato, quinoa(purple)

-Great Apes: pheasant, chicken, chips, fish fingers, onion, garlic, wonton soup, custard apples

-The Devil to Pay in the Backlands: nuts, eggs, greens, bamboo shoots, watercress, pear, manioc meal, brown sugar, ox, berries, cheese, wheat, squash, grape leaves, buriti nut candy, coconut, peanut, butter, collard greens, strawberry squash, cracklings, bean, cheese curds, jackfruit, goat, farofa, guava

-Dead Air:celery, oranges, apple, fish, lamb , mustard mash, melon, bananas, doner kebab, curry, omelette, eggs

-An Obedient Father: yogurt, chole bhature, malai kofta, naan, rice, kheer, gajar-kha-halwa, ice cream, cheese, raisons, almonds, gulab jamun, coconut, peas, spicy potatoes, coconut chutney, pizza, samosas, roasted peanuts and cashews, toast, lamb cutlets, chicken, lentils and rice, butter, halva, orange-flavoured toffee, egg, paratha, mango, roti, sherbert, sugarcane, roti-subji, bananas, apples

-Threepenny Novel: bread, butter, margarine, roast, egg, ham sandwiches, cold chicken, octopus, goat, fish

-The Long Goodbye: hamburgers, Salisbury steak, mashed potato, onion rings, salad, lettuce, Canadian bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, sandwich, chicken salad sandwich, enchilada

-American Pastoral: fruit, cakes, candy, bread, fish, seafood, steak, ziti, clams, stuffed shell pasta, cheese


Originally planned but not read (yet):

-The Conquest of New Spain: cassava bread, shellfish, fowl, lime, maise bread, plums, yuca

-Finnegans Wake: honey, goats milk, pig, lobster, bacon, salmon, Zurichschicken (animal/word invented by Joyce it seems)

-Paradise of the Blind: Xoi (Vietnamese sticky rice) (might not re-read now that used another book for X)

update: halfway done, wooo!

Xochitl is great find, I think I'll use it too. Here's to You, Jesusa has been on my TBR list for too long and I already read Paradise of the Blind last year.

Nice: I really enjoyed it! Also, if you have trouble sourcing it, it is available for free on Open Library.

update: 10 left!

update: Finished! Woo!

r - round brown bread roll (small) Schindler's Arc