By Zara Alexis D. Garcia-Alvarez
On November 18, 2011, a Twitter feed began with the #hashtag junkfood novels.
These are the ones I came up with:
How many do you recognize?
Irma Broth by Miriam Toews
The Other Side of Our Shelves by Rob Taylor
The Soy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Green Eggs and Spam by Dr. Seuss
Snow Flower and the Secret Flan by Lisa See
The Catcher in the Rye Sandwich by J.D. Salinger
Easy to Spike by Edward Riche
Accordion Grimes by Annie E. Proulx
The Collector of Tarts by Joyce Carole Oates
Apology for Absinthe by John Newlove
Twenty Love Scones and a Song of Eclair by Pablo Neruda
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Spoon: Selected Scones by Pablo Neruda
Friend of My Tooth by Alice Munro
The Reckoning of Boston Cream by Claire Mulligan
The Ballad of a Sad Coffee: A Translation by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Saltitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Matisse Poon by Henri Matisse
The Bishop’s Pan by Linden McIntyre
The Golden Bean by Annabel Lyon
Troutstream by Gerald Lynch
The Soldier’s Knife by Margaret LeRoy
The End of Yeast by Jen Sookfong Lee
The Bitter Taste of Lime by Bea Gonzalez
Lord of the Fries by William Golding
Cutting for Bone by Abraham Verghese
The Meat Carvers by Jane Urquhart
Van Gogh to Go: A Fast Food Perspective
The Tale of Kimchi by Murasaki Shikibu
The Shipping Stews by Annie E. Proulx
The Pancake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Stovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Fugitive Pieces of Sushi by Anne Michaels
Crust to Crust by Timothy Findley
Bridget Jones’ Dairy by Helen Fielding
The Norton Anthology of Poultry
All Families Are Diabetic by Douglas Coupland
All That Splatters by Wayson Choy
Wonder Bread by Michael Chabon
Tim Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
The Cod of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Dairy Queen Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
This Burns My Heart: I Have Heartburn by Samuel Park
The Buffet Table by Michael Ondaatje
Anil’s Toast by Michael Ondaatje
New Mooncake by Stephanie Meyers
Memoirs of My Melancholy Smores by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
The Cinnamon Bun Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
The Life of Pie by Yann Martel
Who Moved My Cheeseburger? by Spencer Johnson
The World According to Carp by John Irving
The Hottest Plate by Ethan Hawke
The Tin Drumstick by Gunter Grass
Cold Mountain Dew by Charles Frazier
Bluebeard’s Scrambled Egg by Margaret Atwood
Life Before Spam by Margaret Atwood
The Book of Salad by Tariq Ali
The Five Meals You Eat in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Year of the Food by Margaret Atwood
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(c) Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez
