Daniel’s chapter on food fantasies and fetishes is most widely applicable to the food-as-temptation story. In British literature, food fantasies typically depict “rich foods” in “vast quantities as well as foods that contemporary discourses on health condemn as fat-laden” (62). Daniel notes that because of Europe’s history of famine (in England, France, and Ireland), food fantasies are likely the imaginary manifestation of very real hunger.

Stephens, Mary A., «NOTHING MORE DELICIOUS: FOOD AS TEMPTATION IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE» (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 50. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/50

And maybe that’s why food becomes an interesting topic in Ozma. Canned dinners and boxed lunch growing from trees. What did the author live to imagine ready to eat food that take no effort?

Did Gerald Durrell read Frank L. Baum or was rationing during WWII what comes out into the creation of the Mooncarrot in The talking parcel?

Pasto kalo.