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Food and Literature | Gitanjali G. Shahani

#FOODANDLIT 2026 Nominations

@Texreader @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Trinidad and Tobago
Honduras
Ecuador
Micronesia
Slovenia
Belgium
Latvia
Tunisia
Cape Verde
Mozambique
Singapore
Bangladesh

Bookwormjillk Great picks! now

TheBookHippie Ooooo good picks!!! now

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Some good picks here! Thanks! now

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Butterfinger

Food and Literature | Gitanjali G. Shahani

I'm thrilled to be back with @texreader and hate that @Catsandbooks is leaving. I am also frightened. To be fully transparent, I abandoned these ladies when I fell into a huge depression that took me years to recover. Basically, I couldn't read. My mind just couldn't do it, and I left Litsy. No books, why Litsy? Again, I was not myself. I'm in a good place, my children are not being threatened, and I am enjoying lit again. Here's to rdg and eating

Texreader ♥️♥️♥️ A happy day for me when you came back to Litsy!! ♥️♥️♥️ 14h

TheBookHippie I‘m so glad you‘re back. 14h

kspenmoll I am happy you can be here with us once mire too. 💕💕 13h

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Catsandbooks ❤️❤️ 11h

Dilara Glad you're back and in a good place! 10h

Bookwormjillk I‘m so glad you‘re back with us. This is going to be a lot of fun. 10h

Susanita While I don‘t do this challenge myself, I enjoy it vicariously, and I too am glad you‘re back. 5h

TrishB You were depressed and needed to look after yourself. Glad you are feeling well now ❤️ 4h

Liz_M So happy to see you here because you've found balance and a better headspace! 3h

Liz_M #FoodandLit 2h

BarkingMadRead So glad you‘re back!! 14m

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Texreader

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific | Paul Theroux

so-so

Admittedly this book was written at a sorrowful stressful time in the author‘s life, his wife having just told him she‘s divorcing him. So he‘s very sulky as he travels across Oceania in his portable kayak that he carries with him as he flies from place to place. But that doesn‘t excuse his utter lack of humility, and a serious superiority complex with his smug judgments about 90% of his encounters with folks. He starts by blasting New Zealand ⬇️

Texreader as a most dreadful place. And his favorite? Hawaii. Well, yeah, he splurged and rented a luxury room and hobnobbed with the richest people in the world. I could almost hear the name-dropping spilling on the floor. I did appreciate the travels, as I like travelogues, and his descriptions of places. And sometimes even his descriptions of people; honesty is not a bad thing. But judging a whole island of folks based on the few he encountered, well ⬇️ 1d

Texreader that unnerves me. I stuck it out because his kayaking was breathtaking. But sadly not enough to make this a book I‘d recommend. I wanted to hear about his experiences in #Samoa, and they felt about average for all his experiences. Islanders are fatty, fat, fat eating canned meat and tuna and cheeseballs, if we are to believe the author that this is true of every island dweller. So if you read it, be prepared. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks 1d

Dilara Thank you for sticking with it so we don't have to! 😅 1d

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willaful Why are so many travel writers like this??? 1d

Bookwormjillk @willaful good question! 1d

Suet624 Thanks for saving the rest of us. 1d

SamAnne Unstaffed! 1d

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Texreader

This Strange Eventful History: A Novel | Claire Messud

pick

French, but not quite French enough, the Cassar family felt most at home in #Algeria. The Cassars have moved to Algeria as WWII is ramping up and Germany has invaded France. What was Algeria to do? Where did it stand? Rather than following events, this book moves chronologically forward but is told by different members of the family during either personal or world events that affect that particular family member. So we aren‘t told what happened ⬇️

Texreader to Algeria. But we learn the family is displaced from Algeria, and most of them never feel quite welcome in France. We follow three generations in this manner. Once you get used to (1) it not being a story with a plot, (2) these leaps through time, and (3) hearing from different family members, it‘s an excellent book. It begins with Gaston and his very beloved wife Lucienne and follows their kids and grandkids all around the world until ⬇️ 1d

Texreader they die. It‘s a long book. I listened to the audiobook and it was 17 hours. But I recommend it so long as it‘s accepted for what it is, and a plot is not anticipated. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks 1d

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Texreader

Food and Literature | Gitanjali G. Shahani

Before we open up nominations, your #foodandlit team has a few announcements. @Butterfinger (our founder and who I met in person this summer and we had a blast!) will start cohosting again this year! We will miss our very valued team member @Catsandbooks who was instrumental in helping us keep it going through the years. And her artwork has been phenomenal. And we have a new artist! Welcome @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick to our team!

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2d

SamAnne Thank,you! 2d

Karisa 👏👏👏👏 Thank you to all who have kept this going and continue it into 2026. Such a great idea celebrating the world with books and food! 💗 2d

Bookwormjillk Thank you all! I am very excited for another year of food and lit! 1d

Catsandbooks ❤️❤️ 11h

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Dilara

Comment r�ussir un bon petit couscous | Fellag

Fellag is an Algerian writer and comic. Here is a video of his most famous skit, with him singing “seksou makaroun loubya“ (couscous, pasta, bean stew), the only 3 dishes his mother (or his character's) ever served because they were too poor for anything else: https://youtu.be/TDM5mcMiTQs?t=259
#FoodandLit #Algeria
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Also, I quite enjoyed the tagged book when I read it years ago.

Texreader That‘s hilarious!!! Loved it! Thanks for sharing the link!!! 😂😂😂 2d

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