The Irish Stew

The Irish Stew

Food in Fiction

Generation Food to a T.

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John and Sally McKenna
Jan 01, 2026
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The reason why novelists write so frequently about sex is because they don’t know how to write about food.

So it is a great tribute to his novel, Perfection, that Vincenzo Latronico not only devotes 3 three pages out of the book’s slender 110 pages to how his characters, Tom and Anna, think and act around food, but that those three pages should be so cen…

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