Food in Fiction

"Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" — The Most Famous Replicator Order Deep Space Nine and the Occupied Kitchen: Bajoran Food Culture Under Colonialism Klingon Food: The Counter-Argument to the Replicator The Food Synthesizer (Star Trek: The Original Series, 1966–1969) The Replicator (Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987–1994, and beyond) Manna from Heaven The Forbidden Fruit of Eden The Golden Apple of Discord (and the Apples of the Hesperides) The Pomegranate of Persephone *Like Water for Chocolate* — Laura Esquivel (1989) The Chocolate of Lansquenet — Joanne Harris, *Chocolat* (1999) Lembas Bread The Giant Peach Turkish Delight Soylent (The Drink Company) The Wonka Bar Nightlock: The Berries That End and Begin a Revolution The Capitol Feast: Emetic Drinks and the Architecture of Excess The Food Geography of Panem: A Political Map Written in Plates The Tesserae System: Trading Life for Grain Stardew Valley's Food Culture: Farming, Gifting, and the Quiet Revolution (ConcernedApe, 2016) The Legend of Zelda Cooking System: *Breath of the Wild* and *Tears of the Kingdom* (Nintendo, 2017 / 2023) The Super Mushroom (Super Mario Bros., 1985) The Spice Melange (*Dune*, Frank Herbert, 1965) The Grey Slop of the Real World — Nutritional Paste Aboard the Nebuchadnezzar The Steak That Doesn't Exist Ambrosia and Nectar — The Food of the Greek Gods Soma — The Vedic Divine Drink The Eucharist — The Most Practiced Food Ritual in Human History Ambrosia and Nectar — Greek Mythology The Forbidden Fruit — *Genesis* and the Western Tradition The Gingerbread House — *Hansel and Gretel* (Brothers Grimm, 1812) The Pomegranate of Persephone — Greek Mythology The Chocolate Ration: Memory, Truth, and the Food of Doublethink The Grey Stew and the Prole Pubs: Hunger and Hierarchy in Airstrip One Victory Gin: The Taste of State Control Ratatouille — The Real Dish Behind the Dream The Spice Melange — and the Real World of Nutmeg, Monopoly, and Massacre Turkish Delight and C.S. Lewis — The Sweetness of Temptation Soylent Green (*Soylent Green*, Richard Fleischer, 1973) The Chicken Leg on the Floor: The Comedy and Legacy of Incidental Game Food (Various, 1985–Present) The Dark Souls Estus Flask: The Evolution of the Health Potion (FromSoftware, 2011) The Health Potion: Gaming's Most Ubiquitous Medicine (Role-Playing Games, 1974–Present) The Chocolate River The Everlasting Gobstopper The Fizzy Lifting Drinks The Lickable Wallpaper and Edible Wallpaper The Three-Course-Dinner Chewing Gum The Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser — "Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike Tea" The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Babette's Feast: The Complete Menu Ratatouille — Confit Byaldi The Cubano — *Chef* The Perfect Bowl of Ramen — *Tampopo* The Sukiyabashi Jiro Omakase Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans Butterbeer The Hogwarts Feast Soma: The Happiness Ration The Conditioning Centre Feeding: Caste, Calorie, and Chemical Development The Synthetic Food Technology of the World State Cooking as Gameplay: A History of Food Mechanics in Games (Various, 1985–2024) Food Gifting in Games: The Language of Digital Nourishment The Food of Final Fantasy: Cuisine Across Worlds (Square/Square Enix, 1987–Present) Elizabeth David — The Writer Who Changed What Britain Ate Julia Child — The Writer Who Made French Cooking Democratic Laurie Colwin — The Writer Who Made Cooking Home M.F.K. Fisher — The Writer Who Made Eating Serious Proust's Madeleine — The Food That Named a Function of the Human Mind The Protein Blocks and the Grey Cubes (*Snowpiercer*, Bong Joon-ho, 2013) The Culture Food System — Abundance So Complete It Requires No Name Health and the Hunt: Monster Hunter's Food Philosophy (Capcom, 2004–Present) Pokémon's Curry, Sandwiches, and the Table of Friendship (Nintendo/Game Freak, 1996–Present) Sweetrolls and Skooma: The Food Culture of Tamriel (*The Elder Scrolls* Series) BlyssPluss, SoyOBoy, and the MaddAddam Food World ChickieNobs: The Prophetic Protein The Handmaid's Diet: Fertility, Control, and the Supervised Body The Testifying Table: Honey, Jezebels, and Forbidden Food Buy N Large Liquid Meals (*Wall-E*, Pixar/Disney, 2008) Breath of Fire, Persona, and the Restaurant as Social Space: Dining Out in RPGs The Long Dark and the Calorie as Currency: Survival Game Food Logic (Hinterland Studio, 2017) Never Let Me Go: The Food of the Comfortable Condemned Soylent Green: When the Food *Is* the Crisis The Road: After Food Ends