Eating and food in SF

This is a list of works in which eating or food play a central part.

"Recipe" works

Not necessarily including recipes, but works which centrally feature food and/or recipes as part of the characters' life.

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (and the movie)
• Josephine Saxton, The Queen of the States
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Fistful of Sky
• Robin McKinley, Sunshine

Sieges, starvation, food supplies

• Tanya Huff "Slow Poison" in In the Shadow of Evil

Eliminating need for food

• Suzette Haden Elgin, Earthsong (Native Tongue v.3)
• Nancy Kress, Beggars' series

Future food

• super-dense protein etc bars of food that are like gold in "Firefly"
• 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 by Sheri S. Tepper
• lots of vat-grown meat not taken from animals in SF
• replicator food, as in "Star Trek"

Magic or special food

• fairy food in many stories; see, e.g., "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti; Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
• vampirism & blood
• Joanna Russ' "Little Dirty Girl" (ghost)

Food taboos

• cannibalism
• animal products: see, e.g., "Carnival" by Elizabeth Bear

See also

• Breastfeeding, nursing, breast milk
• Cannibalism
• Fat
• Body image and beauty standards