Does New Narnia count? If it does, my imagination has always been caught by the fruit near the stable door (to the point that the description sometimes comes to my mind even after so many years, while eating pears or grapes!). The way Lewis uses the fruit of the real world to make a point about the taste and feeling of those fruits is really great, and I'd love to try them!

Your post made me realize how often I think about this description as well, especially when eating a piece of fruit! It's a bit of a pity, really—eating an especially delicious peach, for instance, only makes me want to taste the really delicious peaches in Aslan's Country!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned pavenders. They seem to be the only food (and non talking animal) that Lewis actually invented. I always thought of them as similar to trout though. Wonder if they'd taste the same.

I would've loved to try Turkish Delight. My Sister and I have seen many recipes for it and it makes my mouth water. Even though, yes I know its basically just sugar, based on the scene in the movies and the description in the book, I would like to taste it very much. 

I would have also liked to taste the Pavender in the beginning of PC, mostly considering that it is not a fish in our world and I enjoy trying new foods. 

Lastly I would have liked to try some of the tree's meals at the end of PC, even if Edmund tried it and it still tasted horrible. (to humans at least). I would also have liked to be present at the feast of Aslan, as many delicious foods were mentioned.  

@kingedthejust

I hate to ruin your fun, but I have tried Turkish delight....and it was WEIRD. 

Not at all what I expected. 

I have also tasted Turkish Delight, and I agree about weird - at least the type with rose flavor. I have tried lemon flavor as well, which isn't quite as weird - I'd describe it as soft, slightly sticky lemon jelly.

Take that jelly and think of the fragrance of roses. It then tastes the way roses smell. Lovely for a fragrance, very strange for a taste. Weird indeed.  

@varna, @glenwit

Thanks for the feedback! Had no idea Turkish Delight tasted like that. Curiously, your descriptions make me want to try it even more.  

Posted by: @kingedthejust

@varna, @glenwit

Thanks for the feedback! Had no idea Turkish Delight tasted like that. Curiously, your descriptions make me want to try it even more.  

Do it. 

Have to admit, Turkish Delight is one thing I can't really come at... my dad loves it, though, or at least the chocolate-coated version that's available in Australia as well as the UK. (Which I don't think the White Witch has ever cast any dangerous spells on, so far.)

I can highly recommend the original Narnia Cookbook, which several people have referred to previously in this thread. Affordable copies of it do sometimes turn up online — I bought one a few years ago — or else it's available as an e-book. Must admit I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but it is a delight even just to leaf through, especially as Douglas Gresham wrote all the commentary on each dish and on various aspects of Narnian cuisine in general.

Posted by: @hermit

I'm surprised no one has mentioned pavenders. They seem to be the only food (and non talking animal) that Lewis actually invented. I always thought of them as similar to trout though. Wonder if they'd taste the same.

Interestingly, The Narnia Cookbook suggests that salmon is a good substitute for pavenders in our world! I can't quite remember what the recipe given for it is, though. (And unfortunately I can't look it up, as I've just moved house and most of my books, including that one, are still in storage.)

I have the Narnia cookbook on my ipad and there's so many to choose from.

One passage that was both mouth-watering and puzzling to me was a breakfast which some dwarves cook for the main character(s) -- might have Prince Caspian or The Horse and His Boy. It's a typical English breakfast with tomatoes, I think, that puzzled me as an American child, and sausages, which Lewis went overboard in describing as tasty and full of meat not "half-stuffed with soya as is found these days." As a child of course I took the word of the author as God, and thus wondered what exactly was in the sausages that I was eating for breakfast in the mid-1970s, and what I was missing out on, and even what "soya" was.

Turns out that Lewis wrote that bit during the post-war austerities when meat was scarce for Britonians, and sausages went back to normal when the economy picked up.

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I'm thinking it goes here...

Design for a Narnian-themed Bento Box

It's AI generated and not real, but it looks good enough to eat, if you're a vegetarian. I was hoping to see the human food from the books that Lewis talks about and not all Talking Animal food, though!

Oh wow!! I'm not so sure I could bring myself to eat Aslan, though (traditional symbolism of the Eucharist aside)...  

Here's another Narnian bento box I designed, this time for The Lady of the Green Kirtle. The box was made in the AI art generator Midjourney. It looks very nice, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of real nutrition in it (like the Witch herself.) Here's a diagram of what all those strange foods might be. I could imagine the Witch giving a plate of these weird, almost inedible foods to her guests.