https://wiki.feministsf.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=61.8.99.197Feminist SF Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-15T03:46:41ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Eating_and_food_in_SF&diff=26740Eating and food in SF2007-09-26T09:59:52Z<p>61.8.99.197: </p>
<hr />
<div>libocactasit<br />
This is a list of SFnal works in which eating or food play a central part, with an emphasis on feminist or gender-oriented works, but also including other interesting or significant works, and listing major takes on food in SF.<br />
<br />
=="Recipe" works==<br />
Not necessarily including recipes, but works which centrally feature food and/or recipes as part of the characters' life.<br />
* [[Laura Esquivel]], ''[[Like Water for Chocolate]]'' (and [[Like Water for Chocolate (film)|the movie]])<br />
* [[Nina Kiriki Hoffman]], ''[[Fistful of Sky]]''<br />
* [[Robin McKinley]], ''[[Sunshine]]''<br />
* [[Josephine Saxton]], ''[[The Queen of the States]]''<br />
<br />
==Sieges, starvation, food supplies==<br />
* [[Tanya Huff]], "Slow Poison" in ''In the Shadow of Evil''<br />
* [[Stephen King]], ''[[Thinner]]''<br />
<br />
==Eliminating need for food==<br />
* [[Suzette Haden Elgin]], ''[[Earthsong]]'' (Native Tongue v.3)<br />
* [[Nancy Kress]], Beggars' series<br />
<br />
==Future food==<br />
* super-dense protein etc bars of food that are like gold in "[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]"<br />
* numerous SFnal stories in which food is made of various compressed algal forms, often because of destruction of Earth's environment; see, e.g., ''[[Beauty (Tepper novel)|Beauty]]'' by [[Sheri S. Tepper]]<br />
* lots of vat-grown meat not taken from animals in SF; see, e.g., [[Rudy Rucker]], hardware/software/wetware series, with cloned flesh of various sorts<br />
* replicator food, as in "Star Trek"<br />
<br />
==Magic or special food==<br />
* [[Hope Mirrlees]], ''[[Lud-in-the-Mist]]''<br />
* [[Joanna Russ]], "[[Little Dirty Girl]]" (ghost)<br />
* fairy food in many stories; see, e.g., "[[Goblin Market]]" by [[Christina Rossetti]]; <br />
* vampirism & blood<br />
* [[Marge Piercy]], ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]'' - she can't eat the food of the future<br />
<br />
==Food taboos==<br />
* cannibalism<br />
* animal products: see, e.g., "[[Carnival (novel)|Carnival]]" by [[Elizabeth Bear]]<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* [[Breastfeeding, nursing, breast milk]]<br />
* [[Cannibalism]]<br />
* [[Fat]]<br />
* [[Body image and beauty standards]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Themes]]<br />
[[Category:Body themes]]</div>61.8.99.197