Writers rely on food to start their creative flow and keep it going. Walt Whitman liked oysters and meat for breakfast. Expresso kept Marcel Proust writing.
Gustave Flaubert reportedly chose eggs, vegetables or fruit and a cold chocolate drink to begin the day. A morning with coffee and mint tea, Truman Capote ended the writing day with sherry at 2 pm and a martini at 4.
Franz Kafka loved milk as his drink of choice. Apparently Emily Dickinson was addictd to her own home-baked bread. As he wrote, F. Scott Fitzgerald ate canned meat from a tin and apples to the core. John Steinbeck loved stale coffee. To suppress his appetite so he could write, Lord Byron drank vinegar.
Creative Write: What delicacies help you write? Do you keep tidbits by the computer or writing journal?
Go beyond its effect on your writing habit and describe your favorite meal. Share your culinary tastes with us in detail.
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