I never thought mincemeat could sound so tempting

I learned when I was three that the place where ink and paper meet is magic.  You don't need an old Uncle Andrew Ketterley to send you to another world, you just need a good book.  The problem is, all the best books have moments where the characters eat food.  This never used to bother me - I even sometimes skipped scenes where a bunch of food was described because they bored me.  But then I was told there was all this food I couldn't eat...and when you abstain from something, that thing becomes so much more important to you.