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7 best short stories - Food

Eating is more than just feeding the body. The time for a meal is the time to unite the community around a table and share. The taste of food can evoke feelings and memories such as longing, joy and contemplation. Knowing this, writers have always used food as a subject in their works, to metaphorize feelings and thoughts.

The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by great authors who mixed literature and cuisine. Enjoy!

- A Piece of Steak by Jack London

- Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

- A Dinner by Alexander Kielland

- The New Food by Stephen Leacock

- White Bread by Zona Gale

- Witches' Loaves by O. Henry

- Tea by Saki

For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!



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    August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit

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    George Ade, H.G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O.Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo

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    William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo

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