#TopTenTuesday “Yum, Yum” – Books Involving Food #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
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• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books Involving Food (That Are Not Cookbooks), a suggestion of myself and blogger Hopewell’s Library of Life. Links from each title will take you to my review.

1. Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson – young Pumkin Patterson finds comfort in creating Jamaican bread puddings and coconut drops
2. Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford – Jennifer Quinn wins a spot as a contestant on a primetime TV baking show
3. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey – carpenter Geppetto (of Pinocchio fame) finds himself in the belly of a huge whale
4. The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs – the fictionalised story of Eliza Acton, the woman who broke the mould of traditional cookbooks 
5. A Ration Book Daughter by Jean Fullerton – featuring wartime food under rationing and traditional East End fare such as pie and mash, and jellied eels 
6. Green Hands by Barbara Whitton – a insight into life as a member of the Women’s Land Army producing food vital to the war effort
7. Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees – recruited to root out Nazis trying to escape prosecution, Edith sends coded messages back to the UK hidden inside innocuous recipes
8. The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle – Sabrina arrives at her 30th birthday dinner to find at the table her best friend, three significant people from her past . . .  and Audrey Hepburn 
9. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood – Marian’s dilemma about her future prompts some very rebellious behaviour by her stomach
10. Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King – Roman gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius sets about achieving his ambition to serve as culinary advisor to the Emperor Tiberius