fruits and vegetables -- get your 5 a day

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle by Steven Dunning
Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl
The Beans of Egypt Maine by Carolyn Chute
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon by Pablo Neruda
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Sea-Grape Tree by Rosemond Lehmann
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir (she's writing about the oranges, naturally)

Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill
Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
Poor Man's Orange bu Ruth Park
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Apple of My Eye, by Helene Hanff
Love for Three Oranges: The Glyndebourne Version, by Frank Corsaro
Fruitcakes and Couch Potatoes, by Christine Ammer
Cherry-Blossoms, by Basho
Peel my love like an Onion, by Ana Castillo

Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice

The Oranges Of Hieronymous Bosch - Henry Miller
The Smell Of Apples - Mark Behr
After The Apple - Naomi Harris
Bitter Fruit - Schlesinger
The Dreadful Lemon Sky - John MacDonald

The Orange Tree
Five Quarters of the Orange
Message from the Avacadoes
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Quite a Year for Plums

Sorry, touchstones hate me today.

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeannette Winterson
The Blacker the Berry Wallace Thurman
Plum Bun Jessie Redmon Fauset
In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan
Strawberry Fields, by Marina Lewycka
Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
White Apples by Jonathan Carroll or Rotten Apples by Edith Pinero Green or Golden Appels of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
Popcorn by Ben Elton
Juniper, Gentian, And Rosemary by Pamela Dean (more of an herb than a vegetable, but I am running low)

The Great Pumpkin Strikes Again by Charles Schulz
Little Plum by Rumer Godden
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Bananas in Pyjamas

Cherry Mary Karr
Milagro Beanfield War John Nicholls
Strawberry Shortcake goes to school Megan E. Bryant
Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey
The Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love Jill Conner Browne

Hi! I did a tribute page to Chris Stewart, maybe it could interest you :-)

http://www.myspace.com/chrisstewarttribute

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
Children of the Corn by Stephen King
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

The Pumpkin Principle by Cynthia Blair
Dixie City JAM by James Lee Burke
Cabbage and Bones by Maureen Howard
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles Schultz
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lensky
The Plums Hang High
A Raisin in the Sun

(Amazing that it took 16 entries before Huckleberry Finn came up!)

Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
Raspberry Danish Mystery
Apple of my Eye
Blueberries for Sal
Carrot Cake Muder

Oranges and Sunshine by Margaret Humphreys
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg

The Enormous Watermelon
by Brenda Parkes

How to Build an Empire on an Orange Crate: Or 121 Lessons I never Learned in School
by Ed Mirvish

Apples to Zampone: where to Buy the Best Food in and around Adelaide by Barbara Santich

Magical Melons by Carol Ryrie Brink

Peaches! Peaches! Peaches! by M. Mosley

The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
The pomodoro technique by Francesco Cirillo
The peach keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Discord’s Apple by Carrie Vaughn
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke

And as a bonus: Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

Tomatoes by Soa Davies

Rootabaga Pigeons by Carl Sandburg

What's Wrong with my Vegetable Garden? 100% Solutions . . .
by David Deardorff

"Charley's and Daddy's Spinach Pie" by Vilma Costetti

Peaches and the Gambler by A. T. Hicks