Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Fantasy Books with Delicious Foods

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed post first created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

---

This week’s theme is all about books featuring delectable fantasy feasts and mouthwatering morsels. I love when a book goes hard on the food descriptions!

• The House Witch by Delemhach – the main character is a chef and has magic that makes even the simplest of dishes taste divine. I love the dedication to describing food throughout the series!
• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst – Kiela is trying to make a new life for herself and what better way than making jams for the local bakery?
• Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Mansicalco – I may not have loved this series, but I did love the descriptions of the Italian food! The main character’s family owns a restaurant, so this comes up quite a lot, especially in the first book.
• Redwall by Brian Jacques – I think many of us fondly remember all the feast scenes throughout the Redwall books. Enough to make a kid hungry!
• The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh – One of the few redeeming features of this book were the food descriptions. This is set in New Orleans and a fancy restaurant called Jacques’ is quite important to the plot.

• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher – The main character has baking magic, and makes lovely gingerbread men, bread, and the like for eating as well as defending the city!
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree – the OG cozy fantasy is about Viv, an orc who opens a coffee shop. There are cinnamon rolls, biscotti, and of course, coffee.
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch – As part of their training, the Gentleman Bastards learned to cook, and to cook well! There’s a delightful scene toward the beginning where the whole gang fixes up a multi-course meal that had me drooling.
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin – the epic fantasy feasts are of course, epic of proportion. Dornish food sounds delightful, and of course Sansa Stark loves her lemon bars.
• Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep – I distinctly remember a lot of text devoted to pie in this book. Apple cranberry, to be specific.