Questions tagged [food]
Food, it's the stuff we eat. Tacos, cookies, salads, red meat, disgusting vending machine sandwiches... all of it. Maybe even us, if we're not careful.
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A short story about a dish that was not eaten and a bottle that contained no wine
I read this short story in French, about only 10 or so years ago. It might have been a translation, but I doubt it.
The POV character has a friend who works for a big jewellers company (this will be ...
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Space adventure story: infiltration identified by restrictions on ship's menu
This is a 1950s-era short story, I think.
If I recall correctly, the hero wants spaghetti for dinner at the mess, and while investigating why he can't get it, he uncovers a conspiracy: The aliens who ...
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Which Enid Blyton Faraway Tree book has a boy being given pilchard ice cream
I read this in about 1976. One of the lands that stopped at the top of the Faraway Tree had a man giving away free ice-creams. He tells the children he has every flavour so they can ask for whatever ...
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I am looking for the title of a science fiction anthology that contains stories about food
The only thing that I can remember about this anthology of science fiction stories that were about food is that one of the stories was about a creature similar to a lobster called a "malaprop&...
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Sci-Fi story about cooking being the pinnacle of human culture [duplicate]
I remember a SciFi story, probably from the 60s or 70s, about a human culture that only eats dishes made of mushroom paste. The core planet has extremely refined taste. One day, someone comes back ...
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What livestock did hobbits raise?
I know hobbits must have had pigs and chickens, because Bilbo Baggins served ham, bacon, eggs, and cold chicken to the dwarves when he first met them in An Unexpected Party.
But hobbits are little ...
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Short story about a chef who is asked to cook a recipe for immortality/life extension
I'd like some help identifying a short story. Here's what I remember of the plot:
The protagonist is a chef, working at a very out-of-the-way establishment (I think it was maybe a kind of mountain ...
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Are there any species in Star Trek whose dietary requirements are different enough, that they couldn't survive on e.g. Human or Vulcan food?
As the title says, are there any races in the Star Trek universe whose dietary requirements are different enough, that they couldn't survive on the foods from another world, or where such food may ...
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An underwater farm that needed helium
I read that story at lest 30 years ago, maybe more.
I don't think it was a full-length novel, but it was not a very short story either.
There was an underwater farm that raised animals for food for ...
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Space commerce empire based on "better than chocolate" foodstuff
I believe this was a series of books from the '70s and/or '80s. The protagonist's family's wealth was based on their exclusive control of a foodstuff that was "better than chocolate". I ...
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How is Hogwarts able to hold feasts all the time? [duplicate]
How is Hogwarts able to hold feasts with a seemingly endless amount of food all the time? How is all the food grown and transported to Hogwarts, and who oversees it all?
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Where is food found on Arrakis?
Some have asked questions regarding the ecosystem of Dune; I'm looking for a more human insight.
One of the central in-fiction themes of Dune is the scarcity of water, and the natives of Arrakis have ...
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Why are there so many oranges in Sheridan's quarters?
I've noticed that there are a very large number of oranges in Sheridan's quarters for some reason, and I also noticed a few in Garibaldi's (although Zach did ask, are you on a diet? hinting that it ...
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Story where real food is illegal but there is an underground org to rebuild
I can’t remember the title/author of a short story or novel in which real food is scarce and illegal to have. The main character secretly grows vegetables and raises rabbits for meat. There is ...
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Are Peter Jackson's Elves vegetarian?
In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we see an Elven table set with only plant food.
"Where's the meat?"
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