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Scarlett's honeymoon in Gone With The Wind:
"Best of all things in New Orleans was the food. Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes. Gumboes and shrimp Creole, doves in wine and oysters in crumbly patties full of creamy sauce, mushrooms and sweetbreads and turkey livers, fish baked cunningly in oiled paper and limes. Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes."

Gloria in The Beautiful and Damned:
"She was used to certain dishes and she had a strong conviction that she could not possibly eat anything else. There must be a lemonade and a tomato sandwich late in the morning, then a light lunch with a stuffed tomato. Not only did she require food from a selection of a dozen dishes, but in addition this food must be prepared in just a certain way. One of the most annoying half hours of the first fortnight occurred in Los Angeles, when an unhappy waiter brought her a tomato stuffed with chicken salad instead of celery."

Mary Quant and avocados on set:
"We'd stop to have what we called a photographer's lunch- invariably avocados, which we were passionate about. They're so good and they don't make you fat. We'd have two of those each, washed down with loads of tea."

 Coco Chanel and boiled eggs:
"A seminal moment came in her early teens, when she left the orphanage and went to stay with two rather austere aunts. When she arrived after a long journey, they offered, grudgingly, to make her two soft boiled eggs. Despite being starving hungry, she refused, saying loudly that she hated eggs, when in fact she loved them, because she sensed a loathing behind the offer. to have accepted the eggs would have felt like weakness."

 Charles in The Sea, The Sea:
"In food and drink, as in many (not all) matters, simple joys are best, as any intelligent self-lover knows. Sidney Ashe once offered to initiate me into the pleasures of vintage wine. I refused with scorn. Sidney hates ordinary wine and is unhappy unless he is drinking some expensive stuff with a date on it. Why wantonly destroy one's palate for cheap wine? One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and cheaply procured so much the better."

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
"She bought some calvesfoot jelly, some essence of beef and a bottle of aspirin. She got to the door, then went back and bought a packet of rusks. Altogether it cost her sixteen shillings, which left four shillings in her handbag and eleven pounds in her post office book, but she couldn't draw any of that until tomorrow. By the time she came back, the kettle was just boiling. She made the beef tea like her mother used to, in a glass with a teaspoon to stop it cracking, and all the time she glanced towards him, as if she were afraid he was dead."