Hello everyone! Happy Readathon!!!!! It's 3 AM and if I know my stomach, it's time to eat! I try to be careful of what I eat during the Readathon because I don't want my stomach to get sick nor do I want to risk a sugar crash. Plus, not all foods mix with books, as many of us know. Still, we need to read and we need to eat so it got me thinking: if I had a bookish restaurant, specifically an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet, what foods would I use?
For me, personally, I'd want to make sure I included a Hobbit style feast, drink selections from Pern, the pure sugar sculpture desserts from Elvenbane. I'd also want a "garden" section for the food trees from Xanth that can grow whole pies, cakes, and dragons steaks! Of course, you gotta have something for the picky eaters: Gorgers from School of Deaths (Gorgers take the flavor and texture of whatever food you think about right before you bite into it).
Of course, that's just me. What kind of food would you offer at your All-You-Can-Eat Buffet? The most diverse and creative assortment of food will win a $15 Amazon or B&N gift card! Please be sure to leave me a way to get a hold of you, though. Even a Twitter handle will work.
Of course, that's just me. What kind of food would you offer at your All-You-Can-Eat Buffet? The most diverse and creative assortment of food will win a $15 Amazon or B&N gift card! Please be sure to leave me a way to get a hold of you, though. Even a Twitter handle will work.
I'm gonna let this mini-challenge run for the next 3 hours. And remember, if you're somewhere that allows you 24-hour delivery, don't take it for granted. Some of us have to walk to the 7-11 if we want 3 AM food!
For a bookish restaurant, I'd definitely add Middle Earth style foods (definitely lembas!), Turkish Delight from Narnia, candies from Willy Wonka, every Hogwarts special feast food ever made, and probably many other bookish foods I can't think of right now because it's hour 20 :). You can find me @reviewsandRaTs on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI would use many stuff that won't spill and is not full of fat, so that you might have crumbs in your book, but nothing that will leave a long term mark: Dry cookies without chocolate, bread with stuff on it like blackforesf ham, light cheese and so on. Chocolate only in sugar coating like M&Ms, so that it won't melt in your fingers. But that's already all I can think of that really can't ruin your book.
ReplyDeleteI know, no stuff out of books, I'm sorry. But besides elvish bread from LofR and dwarf bread from Discworld I know no dishes you could serve that are no risk.
DeleteI actually own a Harry Potter cookbook, so I'd probably offer everything inside it...from the traditional British fare, like fish & chips and treacle, to the more magical offerings of the wizarding world, such as Butterbeer and Pumpkin Pasties and Cauldron Cakes. If only I could make Chocolate Frogs that really hop!
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I would love to have a Camp Half-Blood type of buffet. The main course would be bbq with fresh fruit, cheese, and bread. But the best part is that you can choose whatever drink you'd like. Your goblet will fill up with your beverage by voice command, and it will never empty. You can be as creative as you like - even order Blue Coke! :)
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I'd go all in on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because SWEETS AND CHOCOLATE!! Need I say more? You can get in touch on Twitter @boghunden :D
ReplyDeleteI would want a Goblin Market restaurant, with heaps of overripe, otherworldly, maddeningly irresistible goblin fruits to gorge upon, though it may prove disastrous for the customers...
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Lots and lots and lots of bread (let's not forget Lembas). I'm having flashbacks to going to a cat cafe in Japan where they had unlimited soda drinks of all sorts of strange varieties (melon fanta is the best). So we'll have that going on, and some cats to pet wouldn't hurt. And handheld foods are out, so we may as well make it a sushi buffet. But we're keeping the bread - you've just got to use chopsticks.
ReplyDeleteAll you can eat lunch buffet: Tom and Huck (a turkey and huckleberry sandwich), The Count (a Monte Cristo), The Godfather (peppers and sausage on an Italian roll, The Walter Cunningham (maple roasted beef and grilled vegetables), The Moby (a beer-battered tuna fillet on a kaiser roll), The Clare and Jamie (Pasties served with salad),
ReplyDeleteI think I'd offer tacos, nachos, hamburgers and hot dogs, sliced fruits and vegetables, chips and amazing cheese dip. The works. I like variety in my reading and clothes. Why not have variety in food too! But to be honest, as long as cheese is in my buffet, I'm happy! ;)
ReplyDeleteI would have four large tables with the Hogwarts houses. Butterbeer refill. Some ambrosia for the half blood campers that may come, that taste just like the favorite food of the drinker. A tea party from Alice in Wonderland, and to accompany that some of the baked goods prepared by Lara Jean from To All The Boys I Loved Before (all kinds of cookies!). And why not some of the scones with butter Simon Snow loves so much? And some of the dark bread with seed that is made on District 11 (from The Hunger Games).
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DeleteMy all-you-can-eat buffet would be al fresco to accommodate the expected vegetarian vampires. The enclosed grounds would be stocked with mountain lions, bears, deer, and the occasional penguin. The tables would be set with dishes from Neverland and Hogwarts so that the seated diners could let their imaginations run wild. In addition, I'd have a combo compost/garbage dump site (downwind from the tables, of course) for the dining pleasure of my centaur guests.
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ReplyDeleteI would serve all of the food that is in the Food Wars manga and also all of the sweets from the book Chocolat.
ReplyDeleteHmm... well I would for sure include a ton of food from the Hogwarts feasts.
ReplyDeleteThere also seams to be some good stuff in Hunger Games (in the capitol of course). I'd top it off with some dauntless cake! juliesb@outlook.com
I would certainly love to have a proper "Hogwarts feast" with puddings and everything, but also Turkish Delights (Narnia), waffles (The Twistrose Key) and perhaps something of an afternoon tea.
ReplyDeleteNovember cake from The Scorpio Races, served with the blackberry wine Anne accidentally gets Diana drunk on in Anne of Green Gables.
ReplyDeleteA buffet loaded with Mexican food and fresh fruit sounds wonderful right about now. World4anna(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteA buffet loaded with Mexican food and fresh fruit sounds wonderful right about now. World4anna(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteAs well as all the perfect Harry Potter food (mostly Butterbeer), I'd have to have some Alice in Wonderland cake, to shrink and grow the guests. Imagine those hide and seek games! Then I'd have a Hook food fight, with whatever food we can get our hands on
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My bookish buffet would have all the food from the Hunger Games like lamb stew and cheese buns (some of Katniss' favorites). Then I would include all of the Russian bakery items from the Crown's Game amd some of the french food mentioned in Anna and the French Kiss especially the Nutella crapes and I have to include the strawberry tarts (that didn't make America's sister cry) from my favorite series the Selection and last but not least my buffet would have food from Alice in Wonderland, little cakes that make you grow amd delicious drinks that make you small. Email - Morgan.s1112@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteAn Alice in Wonderland type of tea, a Hogwarts type of feast but also the cart on Hogwarts express, A Hobbit feast with plate throwing, elvish bread, Dornish wine & Butterbeer and a dip in Willy Wonka's chocolate river.
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I also love the idea of a Hogwarts feast, but because I tend toward simpler foods, my buffet would focus on things offered in the Kingkiller Chronicles: brown bread, roasts, stews, and lots of scutten and brand. I'd invite dwarves to my feast because I'd enjoy watching them make merry with the food and the containers, though! Email: michaelcsteffens@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteBookush restaurant: a cake made up of sll the sweetscwe dreamed of as kids: the cake in Matilda, the chocolates in Charlie's, the lembas in LOTR, the chocolate frogs and Honeydukes products in Harry Potter, the sweets in the Nutcracker, every one of them and everything in one massive cake
ReplyDeleteEverybody's loving Hogwarts' buffet, and this old lady here is lighting more at the thought of the imagination buffet from Hook. I'm not sure if it's a book, but the imagination idea fits, and it's the best buffet I've seen.
ReplyDeleteI might pair it with drinks from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bartending.
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Red currant wine from Anne of Green Gables
ReplyDeletePasta Carbonara from French Milk
Death by Chocolate from the Hannah Swenson series
Dim sum from The Last Chinese Chef
Radishes from The Rosy Fat Magenta Radish (hey, a girl's got to have SOME vegetables in there)
Maple sugar candy from the Little House series
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Trader Joe's alway works for me.
ReplyDeleteTrader Joe's alway works for me.
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