hi!

[John Bailey]

On the critical front, perhaps try...
Ames, Sanford. "Fast Food/Quick Lunch: Crews, Burroughs, and Pynchon." in 
Literary Gastronomy. David Bevan, ed. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern 
Literature. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1988. 19-27

with a possible sidetrip to...
Jenkins, Ron. "Systemic Waste and the Body Boundary in Pynchon's Fiction." 
Pynchon Notes 28-29 (1991): 91-110

...because, depending on how much space you've got to work with here, the 
relations between what goes in and what comes out are pretty important in GR 
(and I suppose M&D), and you might want to consider the relationship.

Less critical but more appetising may be...
Don Anderson, ed. Banquet of the Mind: Stories of Food and Feasting, Wining 
and Dining. Random House Australia, 2000
which is a collection of novel excerpts which deal with, well, eating, and 
so on. Supposed to be read over a good meal, although one review recommends 
against this during the Pynchon section, the barf banquet bit from GR.
reviews at...
http://www.usyd.edu.au/publications/news/2K0406News/0604_banquet.html
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/May00/ind.html
...though I don't think it was published internationally (and I haven't seen 
it locally either).

and in a similar vein...
The Sun & Moon Guide to Eating through Literature and Art
is a collection of original recipes solicited from famous writers, 
celebrities, politicians etc, as well as excerpts from previously published 
materials and some nice art to boot.
review at:
http://www.sunmoon.com/various/sm_eating.html
As far as I can tell, the Pynchon involvement is limited to the inclusion of 
the English Candy Drill scene.

I have yet to come across anything which recognises the love of food which I 
think is evident in Pynchon's work. The excerpts mentioned above do evoke a 
visceral, sensational response, but in my opinion at least they have to be 
considered alongside some of the rich, almost aromatic language used 
elsewhere to describe food in a less nauseating way.

>From: Eleonora Lacorte <ailinaa at libero.it>
>To: Pynchon <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: hi!
>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:18:10 -0700
>
>Hi,
>I'm an Italian university student. I'm graduating in American literature 
>and
>I'm going to write a thesis about symbols related to food in GR and Mason &
>Dixon.....anyone of you knows where to find info?
>I'm searching desperately everywhere but not finding so much....
>a friend of mine suggested me to contact this list...."they could help
>you...."
>so here I am.....
>sorry for so direct a question but I hope you can understand.....
>I had to fight to have this opportunity to work on this topic and I have to
>fight now to make the best of it!
>




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