When we would have family meals, they were like a celebration always. I grew up in families that really prioritized food and cooking. What inspired that and what made you want to make it such a big and intentional part of your narratives? Tell me a little bit about your love of food in general. If the author writes about them eating somewhere, I want to know what the characters are eating. I think about food so much when I’m reading. But it’s always the recent books that come to mind.
This book came out in 2019, and every moment that I read it I deeply wanted to be eating Indian food. It’s a modern, Indian-American take on Pride and Prejudice, and one of the main characters is a chef. There are definitely a number of romances that I’ve read in the past few years that include great things about food, like Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. Jasmine Guillory: No, that’s a good question. How are we supposed to tell who these people are if we don’t know what they eat? Guillory spoke to Eater about writing food that’s worth bonding over, the trickiness of making food sound vibrant and enticing, and why being covered in taco grease might be the key to romance.Įater: When you started reading romance novels and getting into the genre as a reader, did you find a lot of food scenes? Has that traditionally been a part of the genre? It’s there to the point where fan and author Roxane Gay commented that the characters ate “CONSTANTLY” in The Wedding Date. In Guillory’s world, love happens over take-out pizza on the couch, while cooking enchiladas, post-sex while snacking on room service, and making plans for afternoon tacos. Her next next novel, Party of Two, even centers around chocolate cake. Beloved and prolific romance author Jasmine Guillory makes a point of including food in her novels, which include The Wedding Date, The Proposal, Royal Holiday, and more. Between sex scenes, can’t a bodice-ripper let its heroine bust out of her bodice thanks to a nice meal for a change? Or they’re so caught up in whatever fantastic plot of events will eventually seal their affections that they seem to forget to eat at all. The star-crossed characters meet for a dinner, but you rarely hear what they eat. First dates spent nervously staring at each other across meal laden restaurant tables going to your partner’s familial home for the first time and attempting to fit in as the family bonds over peeling potatoes or arguing about the exact blend of spices that makes the perfect chicken curry weddings, we know, are nothing without cake.Īnd so it seems obvious that food should play a big role in any love story, but somehow it’s often left out of romance novels.
Food is an important part of falling in love.
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