Does Reading Make You Hungry?
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I know reading a cookbook can make you hungry, so I avoid picking one up when I’m feeling puckish or having cravings. I thought, though, that this new time travel series I started reading would be safe! Turns out the author must have a penchant for gourmet cooking, because the main character is a foodie of the highest quality. When the character is preparing a meal for himself, you could quite literally turn his descriptions into an accurate recipe. The measurements are included and even the cooking methods. It’s meticulous.
And, it makes me hungry when I read the book.
I just started Allen Appel’s Time After Time, which is the first in his “Pastmaster” series. I have books two and three in the series on order. I can only imagine that they will be just as fascinating, and jut as hunger-inspiring.
I’m looking over his personal website now and I am pleased to see he earned his B.A. at West Virginia University. Though I did not attend WVU, I lived in Morgantown for my job at a publishing house for several years and have quite an affinity for the area. It turns out that although the author was born in Pennsylvania, he was raised from the age of six onward in WV.
I love time travel fiction. It is my favorite genre. Appel’s writing is some of the best I have read in this arena, seriously. But, I’m actually disappointed to find he has not written a cookbook, though his wife has written some books on Mother to Daughter wisdom that include recipes.
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