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3 Cozy Autumn Reads for Foodies
These novels go especially well with pumpkin spice
Full tables, heart-warming friendship, steamy romance, and a bit of magic in the kitchen: that’s the recipe for an excellent feel-good read on a rainy autumn evening. The following three books offer this type of escapism — while not compromising on the literary quality.
1. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Filled with steamy romance, feel-good friendship and decadent descriptions of food, Garden Spells is a magical realism novel that at first seems sweet like a cinnamon roll. It lulls you with its dreamy, naive, almost telenovela-esque voice — only to suddenly drop some bone-deep truth about life. This is the kind of book that will crack you up with proclamations like “There was an art to the male posterior”, and then proceed to break your heart a page later:
“Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren’t. Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they got older.” [1]
The story follows two estranged sisters, Claire and Sydney Waverley, from a small…
