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.
- Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate (and the movie)
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Fistful of Sky
- Robin McKinley, Sunshine
- Josephine Saxton, The Queen of the States
Sieges, starvation, food supplies
- Tanya Huff, "Slow Poison" in In the Shadow of Evil
- Stephen King, Thinner
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; see, e.g., Rudy Rucker, hardware/software/wetware series, with cloned flesh of various sorts
- replicator food, as in "Star Trek"
Magic or special food
- Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
- Joanna Russ, "Little Dirty Girl" (ghost)
- fairy food in many stories; see, e.g., "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti; * vampirism & blood
Food taboos
- cannibalism
- animal products: see, e.g., "Carnival" by Elizabeth Bear